CELAC Social deliberated with the presence of leaders of the 33 countries that make up the alliance.

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This Monday at the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires, the joint declaration that they would deliver to the heads of state participating in the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Buenos Aires was presented.

"With Fidel, with Chávez, with Kirchner, with Lula, with Correa, we constitute a Celac as a liberation from the OAS, which is the instrument of the North American empire

," said former Bolivian president Evo Morales, during the presentation together with political organizations. social and trade unions in Latin America.

The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales called on Monday to accompany and support "our anti-imperialist presidents" who meet in Celac, by participating in the launch of the Celac Social space, made up of political, social and union organizations from Latin America.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma maintained that progressive and anti-imperialist governments have a duty to protect strategic natural resources, distribute wealth to face growing inequality, and advance a common currency project for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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After citing Donald Trump, at a meeting of conservative leaders in Mexico, in which the former president spoke of the need to rebuild the economy to stop the advance of socialism on "our land",

, some of whom are progressive, others humanists, but fundamentally to defend anti-imperialist presidents."

For his part, Hugo Godoy pointed out that "33 countries that make up Celac are in our country and today we are going to establish Celac Social, which is a fundamental, strategic institutional instance for the unity of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples."

"We have the presence of 100 organizations from Argentina from the CTA T, the CGT, the workers of the Popular Economy and the CTA A. It is a pleasure to receive them in our house," he added.

“This Celac Social space articulates social movements, women's movements, peasant men and women, small businessmen, trade unions, and human rights,” said 'Cachorro' Godoy.

Roberto Baradel, Secretary of International Relations of the CTA T, said: “

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We accompany the comrades from Brazil and denounce the judicial mafia that exists throughout the continent, we stand in solidarity with the people of Peru and that we can advance in the liberation of our continent”.

Mónica Valente, executive secretary of the San Pablo Forum, asserted with a good portuñol that “we have dreams of integration, solidarity, development and we can only sustain it with a strong popular organization.

We have three challenges: the fight for democracy, against the coup, against social inequality and the protection of Mother Earth”.

We remind the head of the US Southern Command, Laura Richardson, that

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Faced with the new Yankee interventionist threat, we reiterate that the free peoples of the Great Homeland will defend their sovereignty.

CELAC Social deliberated with the presence of leaders of the 33 countries that make up the alliance.

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Uruguayan Carolina Cosse, from the Broad Front and current mayor of Montevideo, said that it was "a great honor" to have received the invitation to participate in this forum.

“More than two centuries ago in my country (José Gervasio) Artigas spoke of walking the beautiful path of freedom, that path widens with the struggle of the peoples.

Today to fight for democracy is to favor that organization”, he said.

Zaira Reece, from the CSA, added: “

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We stand in solidarity with the people of Peru, with that of Haiti.

We value and promote this effort.

This Social Celac is a fundamental return to the history of unity of our peoples”.

In the meeting that overflowed the hall of the Malvinas Institute, Ricardo Peidro, Mariana Mandakovic, Miriam Liempre, from the Autonomous CTA, among others, were present.

Also Mariana Vázquez de La Cámpora, Eduardo Sigal representing the Frente Grande, Alejandro Rusconi and Gildo Onorato, from the Evita Movement.

At the level of international delegations, the Saharawi ambassador Mohamed Ali Ali Salem attended, a delegation from the Haitian Democratic Committee, headed by Henry Boisrolin, the lawyer of the Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, Wilfredo Robles, the coordinator of the Self-convocation for the Suspension of Payment of the Debt, Beverly Keeneeeee, leaders of the CUT of Chile and Estéban Silva Cuadra, and leaders of the PT of Brazil, among many others.

Presence of Yván Gil Pinto, Foreign Minister of Venezuela: Celac Social plays an essential role in the coming times, to stop fascism and those who want to establish control mechanisms over our peoples.

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The serious situation that Peru is going through, today under the dictatorship of Dina Boluarte and a coup and corrupt Congress, was raised with emphasis by several speakers, among them the leader Cachorro Godoy, Rodolfo Baradel and the CG member Guillermo Zucotti.

They all condemned the repression and the crimes of the right-wing and Fujimori dictatorship, and pointed out that this Tuesday in the document that they would deliver to the Celac presidents, they would insist on said issue.

Among those present were several members of the Peruvian community who raised the flag of their country every time the current situation was mentioned from the stage.

In a press conference from the headquarters of the CTA Autónoma trade union, leaders from Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia and Venezuela, among other countries, had reported the start of the activities of Celac Social and expressed the need to coordinate the demands and demands of the peoples of Our America, in a context of redeployment of US interests in the region and destabilization attempts.

Bolivarian Foreign Minister Yvan Gil with the Venezuelan ambassador Stella Lugo and the leader Carlos Ron.

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Former Bolivian President

, distribute wealth to face growing inequality, and advance a common currency project for Latin America and the Caribbean.

In turn,

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“When I came to the Presidency I had problems with some sectors of workers who called themselves 'apolitical'”, recalled the leader.

“Imperialism, capitalism, does not want humble people, workers, peasants and indigenous people to do politics.

But we decided to do politics.

Union independence, ideological pluralism, are a doctrine of imperialism,” he explained.

In turn, he called for unity: "

, some are progressive, others socialists, others humanists, but there are to defend the presidents of the anti-imperialist governments of Latin America”.

On behalf of Venezuela, during the press conference the parliamentarian Blanca Eekhout spoke: "We are the ones who can build a different world because we have lived through the barbarism of capitalism, of modernity, of its civilizational scheme, we have the original people who understood that the land she is the mother and we owed ourselves to her.

Today, that worldview of our original peoples is the hope for humanity.”

And he remarked: “We have an obligation to build a different world.

, to make a nation of free, sovereign and independent republics ”.

CELAC Social deliberated with the presence of leaders of the 33 countries that make up the alliance.

Photo: Latin American Summary

CELAC Social deliberated with the presence of leaders of the 33 countries that make up the alliance.

Photo: Latin American Summary

Declaration of the Celac Social:

We reject all forms of colonialism or neocolonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean.

We denounce that the NATO base, represented by Great Britain, in the territory usurped from the Argentine Republic, represents a danger for the entire region and is part of a broader and more ambitious Anglo-Saxon dominance device over the region.

We urge the Celac governments to take the necessary measures to peacefully end this situation, under international law.

We reaffirm the legitimate sovereign rights of the Argentine Republic over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces and the Argentine Antarctic Sector, in the sense in which it was established once again by Celac in the Special Declaration September 2021.

We repudiate any blockade exercised against any country in the region, and we demand not only the end of the blockades that currently exist, but also the definition of reparation mechanisms for the peoples who suffer from them.

Regarding the case of the 62-year blockade on Cuba, we demand that the US apply the resolution voted thirty times in the United Nations Organization to lift it.

In the year that marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, we strongly condemn what it implies and any type of interference in our region by the US.

We demand that Celac have a concerted voice regarding the necessary transformations of the international financial architecture and the external debt of the countries.

A New International Financial Architecture is necessary, oriented towards productive development with social inclusion.

This New International Financial Architecture should begin with a strong review of the wild indebtedness process of our countries by financial centers and their speculative agents, as well as designing strategies where the repayment of sovereign debts falls on the economic actors that have benefited of these processes,

We condemn the coups that have taken place in the region.

Recently, the one perpetrated in Peru and the attempt in Brazil.

Likewise, we condemn the recent attempts to assassinate the former president and current vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and the current vice president of Colombia, Francia Márquez.

We seek to promote regional integration that strengthens the economic independence of Latin America and the Caribbean, reducing external economic constraints based on international insertion and regional agreements that create and strengthen their own productive and technological capacities, in pursuit of a reduction of the development gaps with core countries.

We demand urgent measures to eradicate gender violence.

– We demand the protection of migrants and their families, according to the instruments of international law that govern the region.

We demand the promotion, by the Celac governments, of democratization processes of the judicial powers in Latin America and the Caribbean, which are co-opted by international and local interests that do not correspond to those of our peoples, in order to end to social discipline, the criminalization of poverty, youth and protest, as well as political-judicial persecution or legal war against popular leaders.

We demand the release of all political prisoners in the region, without whose release there is no real democracy.

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On video, Launch of Celac Social