“This is the time for Latin America and the Caribbean to propose progressive unity and propose solutions to end the inequalities and insecurities that our people face,” Márquez said at the event in Foz de Iguazú, a city in the tri-border area Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
He reiterated that “we must come together in different ways to articulate ourselves and be able to face these crises.”
He warned of the importance of building a project that eliminates racism and machismo and also fights climate change and inequalities in order to achieve dignity for all people.
Regarding the path to the integration project, he emphasized: “Our regional union must arise from the hearts of the people.”
The Colombian Vice President spoke during a conference together with Roberto Baggio, member of the Coordination of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil, Irene de León of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity and Juan Grabois of the Frente Patria Grande (FPG/Argentina).
“Today is a kind of warm-up exercise to prepare us to take the long-term step by step,” Baggio said, referring to the day that brings together nearly four thousand people from some 25 countries.
He pointed to eight challenges for the Left in the coming years: resuming sustained grassroots work, taking national initiatives to strengthen the productive population, working towards a food sovereignty perspective and protecting nature and the earth.
In addition, massage the process of political education, build a set of tools to wage the battle of ideas, promote solidarity and class internationalism, and continue the fight and fight against wars and against the military war presence on the continent.
Grabois spoke about attacks on workers' rights in Argentina and the need to raise awareness across the continent.
He warned that President Javir Milei in Argentina is “conducting a laboratory of what can happen in the rest of Latin America when popular governments fail to do their jobs.”
The way out for unity and internationalism is an economic war against the Latin peoples. If there is no monetary union, we would not move forward, he argued.
“There is no element more powerful than a united Latin America and the Caribbean with self-sufficiency and autonomy. “We have everything to build energy sovereignty, everything to build food sovereignty,” concluded De León.
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