ABN 15/04/2008
Caracas, Distrito Capital
Caracas, Apr 15. ABN.- The full text of the Declaration of Caracas of the meeting Armed with Ideas, which took place on April 12 and 13 in Caracas, reads as follows:
Our most firm solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its people on the revolutionary process taking place in this country in full exercise of its legitimate right to self-determination. We, resolutely, support President Hugo Chávez Frías and people's organization processes that strengthen day after day their path towards a Socialism built with imagination, humanism, and creativity.
Furthermore, we support Evo Morales Ayma's Government, its policies of changes, and Bolivia's sovereign constituent process. We condemn United States meddling on Bolivia's internal affairs and we denounce the separatist and discriminatory actions carried out by some oligarchic groups of that country against the originator people and their autonomies. We reject the autonomous Statute of Santa Cruz, which was declared unilaterally, because it is unconstitutional and it attempts against the unity of the multiracial Bolivian nation.
We express our solidarity with the honorable position assumed by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa defending Ecuador's sovereignty due to the violation of its territory by the Government of Colombia in joint with the armed, logistic, and intelligence support of United States as part of the regional imperialist domination strategy. We express our indignation on the massacre of Ecuadorians, Colombians, and Mexicans, as well as we reject any kind of war intervention against our peoples.
We show our concern due to the historical crisis in Colombia and we support firmly the brave fight of its people for a real democracy respecting human rights, for a humanitarian agreement, and looking for a negotiated political solution that could put a halt to this long war that has left hundreds of thousands deaths, wounded, and disappeared people.
We make a call to all the member governments of the so-called United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah), and specially Latin Americans, to withdraw immediately their troops and, thus, contribute to reestablish the democracy with full respect to the self-determination of Haitian people.
We condemn energetically the reiterated aggressions of United States to our peoples behind the pretext of war on terrorism and drug trafficking, as well as we demand the extradition of the terrorist Luis Posada Capriles, who has confessed his own terrorist act of murdering 73 people putting a bomb on a passengers' airplane.
We demand the immediate release of the five Cubans unfairly kept in North American jails because they were protesting the State terrorism against Cuban people.
We denounce the unfair, cruel, and illegal blockade that, for about half a century, United States has kept against Cuba.
We reject the indirect adoption of the Plan Colombia by Mexican Government.
The progress of the Merida initiative in that country and the alliance for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America are expansionist mechanisms of military intervention of United States in Latin America. We deem inadmissible that the Government of Felipe Calderón did not condemn the massacre carried out in Ecuadorian territory, where four students of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México lost their lives, which contributes with the criminalization of the victims and survivors of that murder. In turn, Calderón was protesting for the legitimate Venezuela's Government nationalization of the Mexican company CEMEX. We declare ourselves against the colonialist and neo-colonialist domination in Our America and we demand the independence of Puerto Rico and all the colonies remaining in the Caribbean.
We make a call for a mobilization to close and withdraw foreign military bases in Latin American and the Caribbean countries.
We reject the ecological manipulation to transform our territory in agrofuel suppliers in order to satisfy United States energy requirements.
We denounce the strip of the ancestral knowledge of our indigenous people of Our America to be commercialized by capitalist medical corporations, as well as the plundering carried out by museums and collectors of United States, whom keep in their power hundreds of thousands of pieces of our historical and cultural heritage.
The attendants of this meeting commit ourselves to continue, wide, and deep the participation of intellectuals and artists -committed with the struggles of the people of Our America- in the battle of ideas. We recognize the rich experiences that we are going through building people's power from the bottom, from the struggle process of the indigenous people. As President Chávez stated in this meeting: “only the people save the people”.
Caracas, Venezuela, April 14, 2008.
Translated by Ernesto Aguilera
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