Speech by the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, at the opening of the IX CELAC Summit. teleSUR
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00:00Now the president of the CELAC, who is the pro-temp, who holds the pro-temporary presidency of the CELAC.
00:13Let's welcome her.
00:14ExcelentÃsimos jefes y jefas de Estado,
00:18ExcelentÃsimos cancilleres y ministros de Estado,
00:23Representantes de la Patria Grande,
00:25Dear heads of state and government,
00:28Foreign Ministers,
00:31Representantes of the Great Homeland,
00:35I just appreciate you, your attendance here at this important summit.
00:45Not as a ceremonial act,
01:00Sino como un acto polÃtico,
01:02But as a political act.
01:04Porque sostener este espacio,
01:06En medio de la fragmentación y el asedio ha sido difÃcil.
01:12Pero ha sido necesario para demostrar que seguimos trabajando por la unidad.
01:20Sino el continente de la esperanza de la diversidad cultural y polÃtica.
01:27En este año hemos fortalecido la CELAC.
01:34Desarrollando 16 reuniones de coordinadores nacionales,
01:4112 reuniones ministeriales con alta asistencia y una cumbre virtual de emergencia por el caso de la zona de la embajada de México.
01:5412 reuniones ministeriales con alta asistencia y una cumbre virtual de emergencia por el caso.
02:03No es una organización perfecta, pero es nuestra.
02:10Nace de un sueño, de un ideal, de una cumbre virtual de emergencia, de una cumbre virtual de emergencia.
02:18La integración de América Latina y el Caribe frente al colonialismo de las grandes potencias.
02:30Como sujeto histórico, soberano y soberano, no como zona de sacrificio que nos impone el capital global.
02:42Este sueño de la unidad de la patria grande es hoy más urgente que nosotros.
02:52Es la respuesta a esa hegemony de capitalismo.
03:12So, dear presidents and high officials, we cannot continue walking by our sides alone.
03:28We have to be together.
03:30We have to organize and unite ourselves ahead of the neoliberal model.
03:50So, that neoliberal model has emptied our economies, have concentrated the capital in few hands.
04:12La naturaleza, que no debe seguir siendo, tampoco, un botÃn del capital.
04:23La precarización de la clase trabajadora.
04:26The nature has been.
04:28Las alianzas público-privadas.
04:31Has always been affected the public-private alliances.
04:38The private extension.
04:42Inmigrantes, que buscando el sueño americano.
04:47And the alleged American dream.
04:50In which justice and all of our peoples have been hit by the search of the American dream.
05:02And then they have been deported.
05:04Este compromiso contra la guerra.
05:08Y a favor de la paz, tiene que ser ratificado este dÃa en esta Asamblea.
05:16We are committed against war and in favor of peace.
05:21That has to be our priority.
05:24That has to be a tool.
05:26De cooperación soberana.
05:31De justicia ambiental.
05:33Our sovereign nations have to go for justice and democratic, democratic civilisation societies.
05:44Our self-determination must prevail.
05:50The United States' policies have affected us in this new global economic order that it imposes.
06:14And we must take countermeasures measures.
06:26And we must take countermeasures.
06:28We have been resilient to a drug trafficking dictatorship for 12 years.
06:49And then we suffer from a coup d'etat of the former president, Manuel Zelaya Gonzalez.
07:08So we founded with resistance the Free Party, which is the leader of the people.
07:34And so in three years we paid the external debt inherited by the dictatorship.
08:00Which is the second of the great indicators of our economic growth.
08:09So we have reached a lot of achievements in a lot in every sector of our economy.
08:36And we have plummeted the homicide rate.
08:50They, in 2009, they were inspecting us in the embassy.
09:05There were in the embassy in which President Zelaya was there with his family.
09:26We robbed the international relations and so they have to come to justice.
09:49From this history, we condemn the cruel and humane blockade against Cuba for over 60
10:13years against the heroico cuban people. Cuba doesn't export terrorists. Cuba exports teachers.
10:39Likewise, we just supported the Bolivarian government of Venezuela, the rights of the Bolivarian
10:58people, of its sovereignty, the sovereignty of Gaza, the sovereignty of Argentina, and
11:14so we condemn all wars of aggression. We stand for peace. The resistance that the people
11:33demands a sovereign nation without any foreign interference.
11:49Jorge Caetán was assassinated in Bogota, Colombia for a fair, as he was struggling for a fair
12:05homeland. So we gave our solidarity to those victims that are struggling for peace and independence.
12:26And so we gave our solidarity to the Dominican Republic nation as to those families who lost
12:38their relatives in the accident on the club night.
12:47We trust the leadership of the pro tempore president of Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.
13:02We trust the leadership of the pro tempore president of Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.
13:14He will keep alive the dreams, the revolutionary dreams of CELAC, of MartÃ, of Fidel Chávez.
13:30And the peoples. As Commander Chávez said, the utopia is in the horizon. And so we are going to work,
13:47we will work through this long-lived integration, long-lived our peoples, long-lived CELAC.
13:55So we are resilient. Thank you very much.
14:18Thank you very much.