the next speaker has a program which I
highly recommend on Russia Today called
spotnik which is shown five times on a
Saturday I think I could almost repeat
to you the times that it's shown that
it's always a platform for alternative
views an to imperialist views and is a
real contribution to analyzing the way
in which the world is developing at the
moment I'm very pleased to introduce MP
Joy
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chairman your excellencies
ambassadors brothers and sisters
comrades and friends I'm not just a TV
presenter uh by the way but you can
watch my television show in fact later
today uh it's a very good one my wife
and I present it and uh we're very proud
of it imagine if you will the
consternation at
gchq the people who are charged with
listening in on Ambassador Alysia
Castro's mobile
telephone it's the Pope in
Rome calling Alysia
Castro that must have uh sent them
scurrying to begin with uh but they must
have been in a state of real depression
at the end a conversation between a pope
finally who believes in peace Justice
and equality and the most popular
Ambassador in London Alysia Castro what
a conversation that must have
been I was asking myself on the subject
of the
incredibly
burgeoning popularity of this Latin
America conference I was
asking myself how is it that year after
year it gets bigger and bigger and now
we can hardly fit into this great hall
and uh even bigger premises I think
beckons next
year is it just because we love the
people the culture the language of Latin
America I don't think so although all of
those things are true it's not just
because we like the music we like to
dance in the way that they do it's not
just that some of the most exotic
wonderful places in the world are in
Latin America though all of that is true
the reason more and more people in
Britain are coming to this conference is
because Latin America is giving far more
to us than we could ever give to to
Latin America in terms of
solidarity what do I what do I mean by
that what did Hugo Chavez do for
us I'll tell you what he did for us he
proved that another world is possible
that another way is Possible A Better
Way is possible that's what he proved
he proved that you can build houses so
that every Venezuelan can live in
dignity he proved that every child can
have a computer he proved that all the
races orientations can live as equal
citizens under the law he proved that
popular power people's power was more
powerful than the military than the
Yankee imperialist trying to overthrow
him he showed every body in the
world what Humanity was capable of and
he embodied in his formidable being
dignity and strength and determination
up to death and inspiration of that
world after death that's what Chavez did
for us what did Cuba do for us sometimes
in Cuba they say thank you for this or
that act of solid ity I always reply
it's we who should be thanking you
because you have shown us that it is
possible to organize a society in which
money the dollar is not King that money
is not everything that you can be poor
in cash terms and Rich with a Health
Service an education service a culture
and a dignity and determination and a
internationalism that makes you the
richest people on the Earth not the
poorest that's the truth of the
matter what did chivar do for us why is
his
face his mission his Spirit everywhere
truly everywhere in the entire world
not just because he was devilishly
handsome though he
was not just because of the
extraordinary actions in which he was
involved but because he
embodies as a man who was not a Cuban
but risked his life over and over and
over again to help in the liberation of
the people of Cuba who was not an
African but who risked his life at the
side of the greatest of all African
leaders Patrice lumba in the Congo who
was not a Bolivian but gave his life's
blood in the jungle of Bolivia to try to
help Liberate the people of that country
because he could see the fake National
boundaries set up for the benefit of
others but which divide the people who
should be and could be
United that's why we love chivara that's
why he's present here
today he's present here
today and the revolution did not succeed
in Bolivia but it's succeeding
now evil
Morales elected
reelected when the United States forced
NATO Partners to ground
his
Aeroplane who came out of that episode
with more dignity the European stoes who
were ordered by the White House to force
down a presidential plane or the
president who emerged from that plane
with dignity and said don't you dare
trample on the sovereignty of Bolivia my
country my land who came out of
that more
powerfully that's why we're here in ever
larger numbers because Latin America
proves to
us that we are not people who believe in
the past we are people who believe in
the future a future that is being forged
more clearly in Latin America than
anywhere else in the world in Venezuela
I was there with my wife for the last of
President Chavez's great presidential
victories traveling around amongst the
poorer people there seeing the Cuban
doctors at work there seeing the masses
pouring onto the streets to celebrate
Chavez
Victory poor people shabby people black
people indigenous people all one behind
the bolivarian revolution that's the
future how I wish that we could have a
Health Service like they've got in Cuba
an education service like they've got in
Cuba how I wish that we had a government
standing up to the vulture capitalists
like President Christina is doing all of
us wish that all of us
know that what's happening in Latin
America is the way forward is the way of
the future and that's why we're here
thank you very much indeed
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