President Evo Morales
for A US-Free OAS
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO - Bolivian
President Evo Morales said his proposal to
the Unity Summit in the Mayan Riviera
bringing together today and tomorrow Latin
American and Caribbean leaders is clear: "a
new US-free OAS."
Morales, who is one of the 25 Heads of State
and Government attending the regional meet,
said however that a US-free Organization of
American States depends on the other
presidents as well.
"Achieving unity among the governments in
the area is a whole process that will take
years, and we are barely beginning; this is
just the second Latin American and Caribbean
Summit after the first meeting by initiative
of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva.
Commenting on the reason of his call to
think on the US negative influence over the
region, he recalled the history of
blackmails, excesive controls, conditions
and military coups, and "none of this is
good for a better Latin America", he
insisted.
There's a growing feeling among the people
of getting rid of slanted democracies, those
that continue looting the natural resources
and privatizing basic services during
decades of neoliberalism, stressed the
Bolivian leader.
US President Barack Obama said there were
neither big nor small partners and wished to
work with Latin America, but what change was
the way of applying the same old policies,
added Morales.
That new way rests also on old formulas of
igniting domestic conflicts and dividing the
countries while building new military bases
in Colombia, Panama and Peru that are a
provocation to Latin America, Morales
asserted.
The people and the governments must then
unite under feelings of anti-imperialism,
independence and sovereignty, "though I do
not think we can achieve it tomorrow."
"Still, unity in Latin America and the
Caribbean "is a one-way process and will
stand out as a great victory of the people",
he stressed.
The US government, he concluded, has no
morale to talk about human rights when it
keeps the blockade against Cuba which is in
itself the worst of violations. |
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