Chavez: US to Torpedo
Regional Unity
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
called for regional unity to create a new
organization in Latin America and the
Caribbean, as agreed upon at the Rio Group
Summit, in the light of the obstacles the
United States will place.
"We are aware that it will not be easy to
move toward unity: the US record of
ignominies in our lands makes us think so,"
the president said in his Sunday column "Las
lineas de Chavez" (Chavez's Lines).
"To unite to be freer, more independent and
sovereign is something that, socially and
politically, prevents the development of the
gringo imperial and neocolonizing agenda,"
Chavez added.
In that regard, he urged to remember that
the United States, along history, has
succeeded in keeping the peoples of the
region divided to rule.
Chavez repeated his opinion that the
Organization of American States (OAS) must
disappear "sooner or later" because it has
become the main instrument of domination.
According to the Venezuelan president, the
proposed organization, which will exclude
the United States and Canada, will make the
dreams of patriots like Jose Marti and Simon
Bolivar come true, after a long period of
fragmentation that paved the way for
Washington's outrages.
Chavez warned that unity cannot be decreed,
but it is built step by step. He added that
after the Rio Group Summit, the imperative
of unity is stronger. It has taken its own
profile, with inexorable plural and
collective will.
Regarding the incident at the Summit with
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who
attacked him verbally, Chavez pointed out
that it showed Uribe's provocative intention
to distort the objective of the meeting.
However, he noted that the subordinate
cannot be confused with the transcendental:
the realization of unity by those of us who
share historic and fraternal ties was the
spirit of Cancun. |
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