[nasional_list] [ppiindia] The time of our peoples has come
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The time of our peoples has come
. Affirms President Hugo Chávez in Havana after receiving the José Martí
International Award . Fidel highlights profound human and social work of the
Bolivarian Revolution
BY MARIA JULIA MAYORAL -Granma daily staff writer-
"THE 21st century will be that of our redemption, that of our unity and full
independence as a region, as the great homeland; the century that will mark the
end of U.S. imperialism; every day I am more convinced of that," affirmed
President Hugo Chávez yesterday on receiving the José Martí Internatonal Award
from the hands of Fidel.
Addressing a huge audience in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, the leader of
the Venezuelan Revolution stated that he could not accept receiving an award of
that nature - for supporting and promoting the ideas of Martí and integration
processes in Our America - as an individual merit, but as a reminder of an
obligation of the first order to live up to men of the stature of Martí and
Bolívar, "from whom we learned the importance of the battle of knowledge,
conscience, ideas, and we must make that battle more intense."
"This great prize that you have given me," he commented, "commits me even more
to the unity and liberation of our peoples like never before in my life. I
accept it with humility, full of honor, of joy, on behalf of an entire people
and, above all, like a commitment that can only grow. I ratify it here in this
Plaza de la Revolución under the eternal figures of Marti and Che, embraced by
the dreams of Bolívar; it is a commitment that I could well sum up in a
legendary phrase of this land: Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!"
Chávez, who recalled the 200-plus years of attempts on the part of U.S.
imperialism to swallow up Our America, once again thanked the Cuban Revolution
and people for their example of resistance, without which, he assured, "there
would never have been a Revolution like the one we have at this time in
Venezuela."
He also announced that he had renounced the monetary prize associated with the
UNESCO recognition, in order to donate it to the sister people of Bolivia.
For the Cuban president, yesterday was a historical day and one of special
significance given that there was no other way to describe the deserved
recognition for Chávez, the promoter of profound social changes in favor of the
Venezuelans.
Fidel highlighted that seven years ago, when the Bolivarian Revolution came to
power, exports in that country were declining, as were the prices of oil and
minerals, and the situation of an unfavorable balance of payments and
international state reserves to face obligations was continuing.
While the external debt continued to rise, he added, the overwhelming majority
of the population were living in poverty, the unemployment rate was 11%
according to conservative official figures, the infant mortality rate was 28
per 1,000 live births, approximately 2.3 million children were excluded from
the education system while more than one million Venezuelans were displaced
from the middle class, because the reduction of their income, unemployment and
inflation had converted them into poor or destitute people.
In just seven years, the government headed by Chávez has radically turned
around that pernicious panorama, Fidel emphasized. Illiteracy has been
eliminated.
"Today," he reflected, " 17 million Venezuelans are receiving free medical
attention via the Barrio Adentro program, 600 diagnostic centers and
polyclinics are functioning, as well as 600 treatment and rehabilitation
centers.
The Bolivarian process will be recognized for having developed human capital,
for having multiplied it, for having defended the country's natural resources
and for having proclaimed the integration and cooperation of an America united
in such a way that it now has assured the fuel for its development.
Miguel Bonasso, the Argentine deputy and prominent intellectual, also spoke at
the ceremony. He observed that Cuba and Venezuela are sister nations in a
concept that has nothing to do with the false integration being sold by
imperialism and the transnationals, because the Bolivarian Alternative for the
Americas makes the people the protagonists and its essence is not to be found
in the needs of the market, but in infinite solidarity.
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