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the next speaker has a program which I

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highly recommend on Russia Today called

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spotnik which is shown five times on a

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Saturday I think I could almost repeat

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to you the times that it's shown that

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it's always a platform for alternative

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views an to imperialist views and is a

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real contribution to analyzing the way

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in which the world is developing at the

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moment I'm very pleased to introduce MP

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Joy

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[Applause]

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chairman your excellencies

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ambassadors brothers and sisters

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comrades and friends I'm not just a TV

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presenter uh by the way but you can

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watch my television show in fact later

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today uh it's a very good one my wife

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and I present it and uh we're very proud

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of it imagine if you will the

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consternation at

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gchq the people who are charged with

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listening in on Ambassador Alysia

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Castro's mobile

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telephone it's the Pope in

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Rome calling Alysia

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Castro that must have uh sent them

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scurrying to begin with uh but they must

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have been in a state of real depression

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at the end a conversation between a pope

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finally who believes in peace Justice

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and equality and the most popular

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Ambassador in London Alysia Castro what

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a conversation that must have

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been I was asking myself on the subject

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of the

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incredibly

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burgeoning popularity of this Latin

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America conference I was

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asking myself how is it that year after

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year it gets bigger and bigger and now

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we can hardly fit into this great hall

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and uh even bigger premises I think

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beckons next

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year is it just because we love the

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people the culture the language of Latin

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America I don't think so although all of

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those things are true it's not just

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because we like the music we like to

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dance in the way that they do it's not

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just that some of the most exotic

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wonderful places in the world are in

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Latin America though all of that is true

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the reason more and more people in

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Britain are coming to this conference is

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because Latin America is giving far more

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to us than we could ever give to to

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Latin America in terms of

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solidarity what do I what do I mean by

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that what did Hugo Chavez do for

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us I'll tell you what he did for us he

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proved that another world is possible

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that another way is Possible A Better

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Way is possible that's what he proved

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he proved that you can build houses so

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that every Venezuelan can live in

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dignity he proved that every child can

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have a computer he proved that all the

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races orientations can live as equal

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citizens under the law he proved that

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popular power people's power was more

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powerful than the military than the

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Yankee imperialist trying to overthrow

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him he showed every body in the

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world what Humanity was capable of and

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he embodied in his formidable being

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dignity and strength and determination

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up to death and inspiration of that

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world after death that's what Chavez did

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for us what did Cuba do for us sometimes

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in Cuba they say thank you for this or

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that act of solid ity I always reply

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it's we who should be thanking you

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because you have shown us that it is

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possible to organize a society in which

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money the dollar is not King that money

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is not everything that you can be poor

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in cash terms and Rich with a Health

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Service an education service a culture

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and a dignity and determination and a

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internationalism that makes you the

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richest people on the Earth not the

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poorest that's the truth of the

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matter what did chivar do for us why is

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his

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face his mission his Spirit everywhere

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truly everywhere in the entire world

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not just because he was devilishly

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handsome though he

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was not just because of the

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extraordinary actions in which he was

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involved but because he

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embodies as a man who was not a Cuban

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but risked his life over and over and

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over again to help in the liberation of

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the people of Cuba who was not an

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African but who risked his life at the

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side of the greatest of all African

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leaders Patrice lumba in the Congo who

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was not a Bolivian but gave his life's

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blood in the jungle of Bolivia to try to

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help Liberate the people of that country

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because he could see the fake National

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boundaries set up for the benefit of

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others but which divide the people who

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should be and could be

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United that's why we love chivara that's

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why he's present here

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today he's present here

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today and the revolution did not succeed

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in Bolivia but it's succeeding

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now evil

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Morales elected

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reelected when the United States forced

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NATO Partners to ground

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his

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Aeroplane who came out of that episode

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with more dignity the European stoes who

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were ordered by the White House to force

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down a presidential plane or the

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president who emerged from that plane

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with dignity and said don't you dare

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trample on the sovereignty of Bolivia my

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country my land who came out of

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that more

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powerfully that's why we're here in ever

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larger numbers because Latin America

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proves to

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us that we are not people who believe in

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the past we are people who believe in

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the future a future that is being forged

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more clearly in Latin America than

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anywhere else in the world in Venezuela

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I was there with my wife for the last of

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President Chavez's great presidential

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victories traveling around amongst the

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poorer people there seeing the Cuban

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doctors at work there seeing the masses

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pouring onto the streets to celebrate

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Chavez

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Victory poor people shabby people black

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people indigenous people all one behind

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the bolivarian revolution that's the

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future how I wish that we could have a

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Health Service like they've got in Cuba

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an education service like they've got in

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Cuba how I wish that we had a government

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standing up to the vulture capitalists

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like President Christina is doing all of

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us wish that all of us

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know that what's happening in Latin

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America is the way forward is the way of

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the future and that's why we're here

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thank you very much indeed

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[Applause]