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BUENOS AIRES, Jan 24 (PL) The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, assured this Tuesday that capitalism is in a multiple crisis that threatens the very existence of humanity.
“Today we face a multiple and systematic capitalist crisis that increasingly endangers the life of humanity and our mother earth, a food, water, energy, climate, health, economic, trade and social crisis,” said he in his address the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
During the integration forum being held at the Sheraton Hotel in the Argentine capital, Arce insisted that the world’s countries need to think about future generations and about Mother Earth, which he described as “our common home”.
At the meeting that marks the end of Argentina’s pro-tempore presidency, giving way to the Republic of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in that responsibility, the President advocated identifying the causes of each of the crises in order to change the system.
He recalled that this was characterized by the reproduction of domination, exploitation and the exclusion of the vast majority.
He also specified that CELAC must return to the principles of multilateralism, not to preserve the unjust international order that is overwhelming states and peoples, but to move towards a better world, which he believes is “possible”.
Celac is the only hemispheric dialogue and coordination mechanism that permanently brings together the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean without the presence of the United States and Canada.
The novelty of the meeting is that after a two-year absence from Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will take part this time.
On January 2, Lula confirmed to Arce his decision to reintegrate the South American giant into this integration forum, during the meeting they held in Brasilia, 24 hours into his third term.
That decision came on the 12th of this month, when the Brazilian ambassador to Argentina, Reinaldo José Almeida, presented the formal letter to Argentina’s foreign minister, Santiago Cafiero, formalizing Brazil’s return to Celac.
In this way, without the presence of the English-speaking North American powers, the forum for debate and political union of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean continues the plenary session of the countries of the region.
Unlike other Celac summits, an envoy from the President of the United States, Joe Biden, will attend this VII; This is Christopher Dodd, the President’s special adviser on America.