5th ECLAC Conference on Population and Development underway
Our correspondent Hernan Tobar met with venezuelan vice president of planning Ricardo Menendez in Cartagena, Colombia, where the 5th ECLAC Conference on Population and Development underway. teleSUR
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00:00And to continue on topic, we go now to Cartagena, Colombia, where the 5th ECLAC Conference on
00:05Population and Development is underway.
00:08Our correspondent Hernan Tovar met with Venezuelan Vice President of Planning, Ricardo Menendez,
00:13and brings us all the details.
00:15Let's see.
00:16Greetings to all of you watching us through Telesur and our multiplatforms in Colombia,
00:24Latin America, and the Caribbean, and the rest of the world.
00:27We are attentive to the development of the 5th Conference on Population and Development,
00:33which is being held in the city of Cartagena, capital of the Department of Bolivar in Colombia.
00:40The opening of the event was made in the morning, the chair of the board of directors assumed
00:45by Colombia, and before it was Bolivia, and a number of versions and generated debates
00:54in relation to reduce the inequality gap in the region, countries of Latin America
01:02and the Caribbean, what social policies are going to be implemented to reduce this inequality.
01:10Not only that, to implement inclusion policies for the sectors, more vulnerable sectors in
01:17the region.
01:18We're talking about peasants, Afro population, indigenous populations.
01:22In the afternoon, we heard the interventions of the representatives of the countries, and
01:29to talk more about these issues we have about the countries, we have the vice president
01:37of Planning, Dr. Ricardo Menendez.
01:40Doctor, you made a big debate intervention in relation to the social policies to reduce
01:49the inequality gap.
01:51Other countries cannot interfere in other countries' affairs.
01:57And you did a contribution, a very important contribution.
02:00Tell us about that.
02:02Yes, first of all, the central issue in any debates has to deal with the self-determination
02:10of the countries.
02:11No country has the right to impose and define sanctions or coercive measures to the development
02:20of other countries, above all, because they are infringing a right of a human right of
02:26the development of a country.
02:28This has been tried to eliminate in several countries of this area, taking into account
02:34the issues imposed by the United States government.
02:37There are aspects that are seen from the policies, and countries are trying to generate policies
02:46to protect the population.
02:48That is why, in the case of Venezuela, the president of the republic said that this agenda
02:54that has to deal with women, that has to deal with our parents, with the youth, with indigenous
03:01people, with Afro descendants, are not agendas to have as a declaration.
03:06From the point of view of the political discourse, they are protagonists to the human rights
03:12that has all our population, the human rights to participate in the designs and the participation
03:17and the design of our public policies.
03:19That's why, in Venezuela, the president of the republic issued a summons to open to all
03:26the bases of the population.
03:29Sixty-five thousand assemblies were held across the country.
03:31More than three million people participated actively in the plan of the senior citizens,
03:36which was done by the senior citizens.
03:38The Afro descendants' plan was made by them.
03:41The youth plan, the women's plan, was made by them.
03:44They were the protagonists, but additionally, the system of resources, the taking decision
03:50system is assumed by the protagonists of these issues.
03:54That's why the aspect of the social development has to be linked to the model economy development.
04:02What is the configuration of the economic model?
04:04It's the possibility to participate, to have productive matrices different, because sometimes
04:10we see the social themes as if they were an estranged agenda of expenditure, an estranged
04:16agenda that we have to put something to appease the social movement and to give them a right
04:23for a podium as a shop window for issues.
04:27Venezuela is not only participating in the consensus of Multivideo, it's also trying
04:34to involve directly in their plan of development.
04:37And these are very important issues, because while some people are going backwards in the
04:42international agenda, in the case of Venezuela, all those surname families are going backwards.
04:48Venezuela is going forward in this agenda for the 2030 year.
04:53Also in your intervention was rejected what was the coup attempt in Bolivia.
04:59In this context, I would like, well, to have it in the international context, yes.
05:04These are things that are essential in the climatic crisis that is left in the planet,
05:10which is consequence of the development model of the, also the rejection against, because
05:17we don't have, we cannot have a complacent silence about the coup in Bolivia.
05:23But in the case of Bolivia, this is very important, the agenda against interference
05:28against the countries.
05:29For example, when Venezuela passed from 65 billion income to 700 million, it was an interference
05:38agenda.
05:39It was precisely an agenda to interfere in the development of our countries and to keep
05:46them from distributing the resources.
05:48This issue has to be confirmed.
05:52These events, these events not only have a need to be, to reveal that the human rights
06:01are not a commodity.
06:02The human rights in the neoliberal economies, the rights are commodities.
06:09That's why we have to propose and promote an agenda to protect the distribution of income
06:15to the people and also the human rights of the people.
06:18And that also, that only can happen when there is a profound development transformation.
06:24Thank you very much for your participation.
06:26These are some of the conclusions that this day has provided in this fifth conference
06:32on population and development, which is being held in Cartagena.
06:37Of course, we continue to give you information about the development, and this continues
06:43tomorrow with Telefort News.