Anti-FTA meeting set to end in Cuba

[Mika]

Source: Press TV

The seventh Hemispheric Meeting on the Struggle against Free Trade Agreements and for People Integration is set to conclude in Cuba.

Over 500 delegates from 31 countries have participated in the meeting in Havana which kicked off on Wednesday and ends on Friday.

During the event representatives from youth groups, students, jurists, professional associations and women's organizations discussed the current world economy, the challenges of globalization, and the unfair trading advantage first-world countries exert on developing nations.

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Strategies to resist neoliberal policies, terrorism and US military bases in Latin America were also on the agenda.
Many of the delegates are seasoned protestors who travel to cities where the World Trade Organization holds summits and participate in large marches against the organization.

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Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=51158§ionid=351020702

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[Mika]

1. LatAm Social Movements are Criminalized

LatAm Social Movements are Criminalized

The 7th Regional Forum of Struggle against Free Trade Agreements denounced that anti-neoliberal protests are treated as a felony.

Delegates of Ecuador and Argentina stressed that after the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, it became common practice to list landless farmers, unemployed, immigrants and supporters of regional integration as suspects and felons.

The strategy unleashed a powerful machinery that works as one of the most profitable businesses of the new face of neoliberalism and merges with laws that legalize the elimination of opponents.

It involves the supply of funds and other resources to true terrorists and other practices that violate the rights of the citizens.

[Acadia Blue]

2. S. America has always been fascists. And Bush wants the same for

us here and so does McCAin. If a person is against any policy then they are a communist in Latin America.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Isn't it odd that we all used to hear that after WWII Nazis moved to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay,

Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, etc., and we never gave it a second thought? In one ear and out the other....

Even monsters like "the Death Angel," Josef Mengele found haven and friendly faces in Brazil and in Paraguay.

At some point, we heard about the military juntas, about genocide in Latin America, about right-wing dictators running ruthless regimes there, employing absolutely inhuman methods of torture, and terrorizing the population beyond endurance through throwing victims out of airplanes, helicopters, or simply, for every day madness, letting their dead bodies flow by citizens in the city, in their rivers.......



The Mapocho River in Santiago, Chile

The existance of these right-wing tyrants and their astonishingly brutal regimes has always been downplayed, or ignored publicly by U.S. officials, while the public reaction, resistance to them by their own citizens has always been condemned and reviled endlessly, and the protesters pointed out as enemies of the U.S., since the U.S. supported the tyrants like Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, who actually employed death squads who rounded up disssenters, tortured, murdered them, threw them out in the streets, hung them from lightpoles, and trees, threw them in the countryside, etc.

It's about time the U.S. backs away from using such deadly, relentless, brutal tools against the poor of Latin America and the Caribbean. What, in the end, is the purpose? What is ever gained if it must be at the point of a gun, or through the murder of unique human beings? If the countries of this hemisphere have illustrated they want the U.S. to stay OUT of their lives, to STOP exploiting their poverty, raping their natural resources without adequate compensation to the entire country, it's time to respect them, it's time to END THE CRIMES AGAINST THEM. No more excuses for meddling: that's only subterfuge. We need to clean up this country's behavior, if it's possible, if this is really a democracy.

[Mika]

4. Kick for this post.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Ha! I just recognized the guy in your photo. Funny. I saw it before and it didn't ring a bell.

Looks like someone has a new hairstyle!

Thanks, Mika.

[Judi Lynn]

6. It could happen that one day he'll be known as Mariela's father!

That might be going too far!