Enough Complicity: Latin American States Must Break All Relations with Israel
Declaration by Latin American anti-Zionist Jewish organizations, members of Global Jews for Palestine.
Castellano / Português
The deepening of the genocide in Palestine, which now extends to southern Lebanon, has been ongoing for two and a half years, resulting in tens of thousands of fatalities, millions of displaced people, and a growing humanitarian crisis. However, during this period, Israel’s relations with Latin American States have intensified (with a few exceptions, generally restricted to the diplomatic sphere). Furthermore, recent agreements open the prospect of tightening these ties.
This is the case with the so-called “Isaac Accords,” which imply greater cooperation at the diplomatic level, in “security” (surveillance and repression), mobility, and the promotion of Israeli investments on Latin American soil. Although the agreements were signed by the governments of Israel and Argentina, the initiative aims for its expansion throughout the region.
Ten days later, eight binational chambers between Latin American and Israeli businesspeople (Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, and Chile) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen economic relations at all levels. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar declared that 2026 “will be the year of Latin America.”
A Historical Alliance
Seen in perspective, the entanglement with Israel goes beyond contingent governments: these are true state policies in Latin American countries. Shortly after its foundation in 1948, carried out on the basis of the mass expulsion of Palestinians, Israel was already recognized by all the States in the region. This orientation is part of their historical submission to US and European imperialism.
At the extreme end of this criminal alliance, Israel supported and supplied weapons to the genocidal dictatorships that devastated our part of the world in the ’70s and ’80s.
In recent decades, this connivance between States was formalized and expanded. The Isaac Accords were preceded, in addition to numerous bilateral agreements, by treaties such as Israel’s 2007 agreement with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay). It was also preceded by the Zionist State’s presence as an observer in the Organization of American States and the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru).
Business and Complicity
The actions of current Latin American governments stand (as is the case across the vast majority of the globe) on the opposite side of the popular mobilizations protesting against the genocide and demanding a free Palestine.
Israel highlights among its frontline allies the right-wing governments of Argentina, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras, which openly support the ongoing genocide. Recently added to this list are Rodrigo Paz Pereira in Bolivia and José Antonio Kast in Chile (who has just appointed a staunch defender of the genocide as ambassador to Israel).
At the head of this process is the government of Javier Milei in Argentina, which multiplies memorandums with the genocidal State and is the main promoter of the Isaac Accords. The far-right leader deepens the particularly close ties between the Argentine State and Zionism. A significant example is the interference in the country of the Israeli water company Mekorot, cleared by the agreements signed by the previous government (of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner). Mekorot is a protagonist in depriving Palestinians of water, with 85% of the native population relying on an average of only 40 liters daily (compared to the 100 recommended by medical organizations, and the 300 accessed by Israelis). Today, the company has agreements with 12 of the 23 Argentine provinces, where it acts as an intermediary for extractivist corporations to seize water to the detriment of local populations. Mekorot’s tentacles extend to Mexico, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic, while in Chile, popular mobilization forced the company’s withdrawal.
But the maintenance and expansion of bilateral relations also encompasses countries whose governments (more or less belatedly) publicly declared themselves and adhered to the international accusation against Israel for genocide, such as Lula in Brazil, Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico, and until recently Gabriel Boric in Chile.
At the diplomatic level, Mexico maintains its ambassador in the Zionist enclave, while Lula and Boric withdrew theirs, but without breaking relations and keeping the Embassies operational.
Complicity is even clearer in economic terms. Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter to Israel, increased those sales by 51% in 2024, providing for the armed and occupation forces over Palestine. Trade between Israel and Mexico, which have had a Free Trade Agreement for 25 years, exceeded one billion dollars in 2024. In the Chilean case, they remained stable.
The government of Gustavo Petro in Colombia represents a special case, as the diplomatic withdrawal was complete and the government announced the breaking of the Free Trade Agreement with Israel, as well as the suspension of Israeli weapon imports and Colombian coal exports. However, coal continues to flow. Meanwhile, Petrismo’s competitor in the ongoing elections, Abelardo de la Espriella, has announced that he would fully restore bilateral relations.
Weaponry, Surveillance, and Persecution
The export of Israeli weapons to our region grew in total terms during the last period, as part of a global rise: in 2025, Zionism’s military sales broke a new historical record. Israel’s largest (and most highly valued) arms company, Elbit Systems, continued to expand its presence in Latin America over these past two years, signing new contracts with Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, and maintaining 13 of them in Colombia. Palantir, a multinational that provides artificial intelligence and data analysis to Israel for the detention and assassination of Palestinians, is also advancing into our countries. These are, as they present it themselves, weapons, drones, monitoring systems, and other equipment “field-tested” (meaning, on the bodies of Palestinian people). A technology of cruelty that States acquire to use against their own populations through violence and surveillance, in many cases under the false accusation of “terrorism” against dissidents.
In the region, attacks are also growing against those who speak out against the crimes of Zionism and for Palestinian dignity. To the repression of mobilizations in Chile, Mexico, and Argentina, and police raids on solidarity activities, are added ideological and judicial persecution and censorship. A key tool for this is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which self-servingly and fallaciously equates Judeophobia with criticism of the State of Israel. Although declared non-binding, it is used by States as the basis for judicial cases and convictions, such as those carried out in Brazil against Zé Maria and Breno Altman, and in Argentina against Vanina Biasi, Alejandro Bodart, and Cristian Díaz. Nowadays, six Latin American countries (Argentina, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Uruguay) are joined to the IHRA, as well as 12 of 27 Brazilian states. The government of Javier Milei heads an attempt to advance over the region, as reflected by Argentina’s recent assumption of the IHRA Presidency.
Let Us Say Enough
As Latin American organizations of anti-Zionist Jewish people, we repudiate the complicity of our countries’ States with Israel, which contrasts with the struggle of the peoples against the genocide.
We also warn that complicity with a genocide documented like no other in history, as well as the acquisition of weaponry and technologies and the persecution of dissent, are a breeding ground for authoritarian advances in our territories. That is why the struggle for a free Palestine is also a fight against capitalist extractivism and state violence, for freedom of expression and protest, and for all popular rights.
From the groups that make up the Global Jews for Palestine network in this part of the world, we demand from Latin American States the total rupture of diplomatic, military, commercial, judicial, and any other type of relations with the State of Israel, and the execution of concrete measures against the ongoing genocide.
Stop the genocide in Gaza, no to ethnic cleansing and colonization in the West Bank and Lebanon.
Long live Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Not in our name.
Judíes por Palestina (Argentina)
Vozes Judaicas por Libertação (Brasil)
Agrupación Judía Diana Aron (Chile)
Agrupación Mexicana de Judíes Interdependientes (México)
Judíes por una Palestina Libre (México)
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