Gustavo Petro: capitalism refuses to be overthrown
President Gustavo Petro's speech at the CELAC summit on Ecuador's invasion of the Mexican embassy in his country. teleSUR
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00:00 Who is going to speak to us right now?
00:05 Thank you.
00:06 President, very kind of you.
00:11 I see that CELAC has the veto.
00:19 We cannot make decisions by consensus.
00:23 Well, the issue on Quito, it provides a disgusting feeling for all of us, so we have to take
00:42 into account this incident.
00:45 The world we are living in this moment, it doesn't seem a democratic world.
00:53 It seems to be a world that takes more huge steps to barbarism.
01:03 Even barbarism at the moment, barbarism has to do with denial of democracy, with an array
01:16 of global issues regarding the political power worldwide.
01:25 It has to do with the survival of life on the planet.
01:30 I'm not going to go deeper into that, but I think that instead of doing things planned
01:44 as human beings, we are more focused on the death chain.
01:55 It is a kind of resistance to the capital of changing world, and it is pressed with
02:10 these kinds of incidents in the bombing of Gaza, in this kidnapping of the embassy.
02:20 We thought a democratic project would be permanent, but it is at risk.
02:39 What we are witnessing is a kind of fascism in Europe that has nothing to do with equity,
02:49 fraternity, or that they want to exploit the Latin American people.
03:04 That's the scenarios of today.
03:07 We, all Latin American governments, signed the United Nations Agreement, and so we all
03:23 are willing to preserve liberal rights.
03:37 The American constitution doesn't have the women's rights or the collective rights.
03:45 At the beginning of the 1970s, almost all men, all liberal men, received a treaty of
03:56 their liberal rights.
03:58 In my opinion, these rights cannot be denied, but just have to cover most of them.
04:07 At a meeting on April 9, 1948, our country was entering into one of the worst stages
04:22 of violence, because conservative politicians cannot be understood between each other.
04:36 So, on the other side, Latin America, after having signed that treaty, the American commission,
04:53 we can remember the case of Allende, it can be a symbol, the assassination of the president
05:02 in a military coup d'état in an era of 30 years, in which military dictatorships prevailed.
05:21 So the idea of doing a revolution by youngsters was at the Columbia.
05:32 So all the democratic project was full of bloodshed, and well, 30 years later, it came
05:49 up an era of spring, they call it like that, landslides, victories.
06:01 On one side, it was lived again the Allende stage.
06:10 So it was an era in which votes for presidents were prevailing, but barbarism can enter again
06:24 our space in the planet.
06:27 What happened with Ecuador is part of that barbarism.
06:32 We cannot call it another way.
06:38 It is not the same as what happened with Iran or with the bombings in Gaza, but even we
06:49 can see how the Middle East is paving the way to the confrontation war.
07:01 We are responsible in one way or another that Latin America doesn't enter into barbarism.
07:18 And so progressive expressions are the ones which all presidents must agree on to respect
07:37 diversity, to respect the Latin American diversity in politics.
07:46 We have to respect coexistence, and Ecuador is not respecting coexistence.
07:56 The departure and saving lives, well, a president that has just beginning its presidential term
08:14 that who allowed this kind of barbarism, Ecuador and Israel, is just shaking hands in the competition
08:28 for barbarism, and that cannot be allowed.
08:38 We are referring to President Maduro as a pact within the right forces, within the progressive
08:55 forces, a coexistence pact, because if we decide to murder each other, we repeat on
09:09 the history that Latin America doesn't deserve.
09:22 We cannot allow to keep our voices quiet, and so our aim is to consolidate among us.
09:34 But Ecuador has violated human rights, and Ecuador has violated the asylum right, among
09:50 others.
09:51 So in that measure, I would have to accompany the government of Mexico in their decisions.
10:12 It seems like the South American pact is setting apart because of this, because we are against
10:31 the coup d'etat, the exile.
10:40 Unfortunately, there is no new radicalism, so we have to avoid that path.
10:53 So I urge for the Ecuadorian government to make amends.
11:12 No country of Latin America must break any of these regulations.
11:26 Mr. Glass's rights must be respected.
11:31 And so if the Mexican government decides to go to the International Court of Justice,
11:40 we just back them up.
11:44 So I call for the Ecuadorian government to think about Latin America, and to think that
11:57 Latin America doesn't deserve 100 years of loneliness.
12:00 Well, thank you, President.