On the occasion of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Bolivia's independence, the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, emphasizes the democratic recovery of the Bolivian nation, highlighting milestones such as the nationalization of hydrocarbons and the defense of sovereignty, all framed within the struggle for a “second and definitive independence.” His message connects the past of resistance with the present of anti-colonial unity, while he called for the consolidation of “Living Well” in the face of global challenges.
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00:00We continue with this session. Now I call on the brother to read the second point of the agenda.
00:08Second point, message of the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brother Luis Arce Catacora.
00:18Thank you very much, Brother Luis Arce Catacora, Constitutional President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
00:25You have the floor. Please address the Bolivian people.
00:42Thank you very much. Very good morning to all.
00:55Greetings to the Vice President David Choquehuanca, to Brother Andronico, the President of the Chamber of Senators, also Brother of the Chamber of Deputies.
01:17We have a special greeting to Sister Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, and the important committee that has come with her.
01:31Thank you very much for being with us, Brother Xiomara.
01:34We also greet Sister Maria Jose Pinto, the Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador, and her committee that is here with her.
01:44Thank you very much.
01:46To brothers and sisters Senators, brothers and sisters Deputies, who greet the President of the Tribunal Electoral Tribunal.
02:04Asimismo, all different authorities, turning generals,
02:12agreeing to all the international delegations of different countries that accompany us in this important date.
02:17Brothers of Honduras, Ecuador, India, China, from Chile, Peru, Panama, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico,
02:32Guatemala, Venezuela, Saharaui, Saint-Benzin and the Grenadines, Egypt, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Australia, Saudi Arabia,
02:49Soberan Order Militar de San Juan de Jerusalén, de Rodas y de Malta, Angola, Palestina, Unión Europea,
02:57UNA, Canadian, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Australia, Great Britain, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Argentina, Argentina.
03:11To all, welcome and thank you for being with us here in this Bicentennial.
03:18Likewise, we welcome the representatives of international organizations that accompany us,
03:30our former presidents of our plurinational state of Bolivia,
03:33brothers and sisters, ministers of the state, diplomatic corps that live in our country,
03:42to the Ombudsman, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State of Bolivia,
03:51to the Chief of Staff that is here with him,
03:58Commander-in-General of the Polimian Police and Vice-Ministers of the State.
04:05So we greet all the directors and managers,
04:12the Governor of Chukisaca, the Governor of Oruro,
04:21Assemblymen and Women of the Departments and different Municipalities,
04:29Councilors.
04:31Also, we welcome the Archbishop of Sucre,
04:38with us all the leaderships of unions and confederations.
04:45Welcome to the President of the Confederations of the Unions People of the East.
05:03The Representation of the 36th Nation of Indigenous and Formal People,
05:19Intercultural Peoples and the Afro-Bolivian People.
05:24Welcome, Distinguished Writer Casasola, who is also with us,
05:33in the Representation of the Confederations of Farmers and Indigenous,
05:39to all the Representations of Organizations that are here with us today,
05:49in the House of Liberty, outside as well.
05:54Symbolic groups that are proud to be Bolivian are with us.
05:59And of course, today, a very special greeting to all Bolivians
06:04in these 200 years of independence of the pre-national state of Bolivia.
06:09Long live Bolivia.
06:11A fraternal greeting to all that also follow us through different medias and social media
06:23in this 200th anniversary.
06:26Today, in this beautiful morning of our Bicentennial,
06:30not only commemorate the historical mark of 200 years of the birth of our beloved Bolivia,
06:37but also celebrate the persistence of a heroic people that never surrendered,
06:42a people that transformed pain into awareness and organization,
06:49transformed exploitation into mobilization,
06:52and memory in the soul of a plurian national state.
06:59We are one nation that was not burned with a republic,
07:06but from the belief of the Pachamama and the singing of our 36 indigenous peoples,
07:12from wisdom of our ancestors.
07:14That is a fire that never goes out.
07:18Here, where mountains and lands keep the memory,
07:23and the winds pronounce the names of those that resisted.
07:27History is not written.
07:29History is sown with dignity.
07:32We are sacred coca leaf and his owner.
07:35In this soil, nor chains or swords, nor luggage full of empty promises,
07:42were able to break the indomitable spirit of the indigenous nations,
07:46of workers, of miners, of women that weave with courage
07:51from the hunger of children and young,
07:54that dreamt beyond misery to which they were condemned for decades.
07:59Today, brothers and sisters, the heart of our Bolivia beats with strength
08:04because we still carry inside the spirit of Tupac Qatari,
08:10the bravery of Bartolín Aziza, the rebellious of Atihuatipunta,
08:16the heroic conviction of Juana Azarduy,
08:19the dignity of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz,
08:23the spirit of Luis and the social awareness of diviners
08:29and the strength of farmers,
08:31the revolutionary conviction of social organizations and unions.
08:36Two hundred years from our independence,
08:45we are not celebrating only a date,
08:47we are raising with pride the flag that is tricolor,
08:51but also a huipala, which is the flower of Cantuta and Pantuhu,
08:56which is plurinational, which is sovereignty,
08:58which is the nationalization and industrialization,
09:01the flag of our second and definite independence.
09:05With this conviction and with this life memory that comes from our roots,
09:10I want to address you.
09:12What does Bolivia want to say?
09:18An endless love of freedom.
09:21This is what Liberator Simón Bolívar said.
09:23And on our bicentennial we remember that nothing could put out the flames
09:27of the patriots, of those with decision, bravery and unity,
09:32fought and gave their lives to leave us a beautiful homeland,
09:37independent without oppression that invite us to find a better future
09:42for our coming generations.
09:45In every struggle, in every victory,
09:47we understood that unity makes the strength as our coin says.
09:52For two hundred years of struggle, life independently brings us together
09:57around a historical, a common history of struggle and victories
10:02that brings us to memory, the learning that not a single victory,
10:07that any battle against those that wanted to submit us were easy,
10:11but united as our heroes, we were able to defeat them all.
10:17The attempt to oppress and sack our homeland.
10:21The bicentennial of Bolivia also means two hundred years of dreams,
10:25of hopes and sacrifice of our people.
10:30We are a country characterized by popular sectors that are rebellious,
10:34indomitable in the face of exploitation.
10:38Bolivia is the cradle of all civilizations.
10:44In our territory, it was born and went to other places for centuries,
10:50the ancestral cultures, and also here we saw the cultures of Inca,
10:56and many others.
10:58In the Andes and Valles, among many others,
11:04they are the origin of our valuable cultural diversity.
11:10When the Spanish arrived to this region of our continent,
11:14they found great wealth that were important for development of markets before capitalism.
11:24The exploitation of the rich veins of silver in Potosí was made under slavery of indigenous and Afro descendants.
11:36Potosí became the greatest deposit of silver in humanity to be exploited at the cost of hundreds of thousands.
11:48The Spanish founded the house of coin with the aim of coin, the sacred metal, which became the currency of the world.
11:58The life of indigenous people was completely destroyed by three centuries of colonial rule, exploitation and slavery work.
12:12The loaded workloads, the heavy load works, and indigenous tribute had an effect for the most important insurrection against the crown,
12:26that of Tupac Amaro II, and in Cusco, preceded by the rebellion of Tomas Qatari,
12:34by the uprising of also older brothers Nicolás, and in a second stage Tupac Qatari, Batolina, Sisa, and Gregoria from Altiplano,
12:46decades before the outburst of the independence movement in Hispano America.
12:52The liberation process happened precisely in La Plata city with Sucre and was what came before of the junta led by Pedro Murillo.
13:05Fifteen years lasted the bloody fight against the crown in this land, regular and irregular wars,
13:15thousands of men and women willing to reach freedom after bloody battles with sad results but also glorious victories.
13:28In this long fight, names as Juana Azurdia, Manuel Bernardo, Jaime Sudaña, Manuel Esteban, Jose Manuel Mercado, Jose Austaquio, Manuela Gandarillas, Simona,
13:45Teresa Bustos de Limoyne, Vicenta Juariste Guino, Ana Barba, Pedro Ignacio Muiva, Los Pardos Libres,
13:53el ya mencionado Pedro Domingo Murillo, Juan Antonio García Lanza, José Miguel Lanza, José Tambor Vargas, Ignacio Guarnes,
14:02Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales, Juan Manuel Baca Cañoto y Delfonso de las Muñecas, Vicente Camargo, Carlos Medinaceli Lizarazu,
14:13José María Pérez de Urdininea, entre tantos otros nombres,
14:18so many other names of men and women that gave their lives for the independence.
14:23August 6, 1825,
14:26the independence declaration was signed of the province of Upper Pelú,
14:33with the name of the Republic Bolívar, the favorite daughter of the liberator,
14:38which became the protector, which was quickly succeeded by the boring marshal José Antonio Sucre.
14:45In this declaration, the departments of Upper Pelú, in this fair and magnanimous resolution, protest to the whole earth
14:57that their irrevocable will is to be self-governed and be ruled by the constitution, the laws and authorities
15:04that they elected and they believed that would be the ones that knew better for their future happiness as a nation.
15:13Simon Bolívar, an exemplary revolutionary man of the time, who also did a common cause with our heroes,
15:22those that fought for independence and equality for all and not just for a few,
15:27are many of the decrees that have been made by him before and after August 6,
15:33among them, that of the abolishment of personal services of indigenous,
15:38that of popular education, that of liberation of slaves,
15:42and the abolishment of tributes are among the most astonishing.
15:48Bolivia was born independence with an over 2 million square kilometers of territorial land.
16:02However, external ambitions, in complicity with internal oligarchies,
16:07executed plans to take away our natural resources and territory to benefit themselves
16:13and enrich the empires of the time, which happened that more than half of our territory was usurped,
16:22and today we have a territorial extension of over a million square kilometers.
16:28However, history has shown that to all revolutions comes followed by waves of counter-revolution,
16:40and unfortunately, many of those advances were quickly overturned,
16:45while echoes of regional integration manifested with the Confloration of the Peruvian-Bolivian Confloration,
16:54warlords and external forces tried to put us into inner fights and restore and reinforce colonial economic structures,
17:05with the result of the development of states and the tributes of indigenous,
17:11confiscation of the land and other properties,
17:14even marginalized independent actors,
17:17and put into the oblivion the indigenous protagonists of our history.
17:23That development against history, and of going backwards,
17:28impacted directly, is part of our history.
17:33Later, the loss of the coastline due to external interests that faced broader people,
17:46and due to the unfair war of the Pacific to which we were dragged to,
17:50mutilated our sovereign access to the sea.
17:55Our country, designed being besieged, continues to be sacked by a group of powers
18:00that took advantage of the exploitation of silver until the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century,
18:06and then, as we all know, by the famous mining due to the value of our natural resources,
18:18and political interference did nothing but to deepen the crisis of the state whose order began to disintegrate in the world of Chaco,
18:28a war also created by foreign interests where over 50,000 Bolivians died.
18:34But also, it was in that war where Bolivians also looked at each other and recognized each other in our similarities and differences,
18:42and we realized that war only benefited the wealthiest and powerful,
18:48and the ones that paid the consequences are always the most humble, which are the ones that go to war.
18:53There, that colonialism and capitalism must be assumed as two historic ways contemporary of domination against our peoples.
19:03The 19th and 20th century were of confrontation between social class.
19:10As capitalism moved forward, they tried to take away the lands of indigenous people.
19:16Some nations resisted and preserved their autonomy and fight for the title of property of their land,
19:23and for their cultural emancipation based in novel forms of education.
19:29For its part, the working class do itself create unions and organizes around unions and political parties with left ideology,
19:38and fight for the remindication of their salary and work regimes and their families,
19:44and submitted once and over with the national revolution of April,
19:56created slowly as the war of Chaco finally took away an agrarian reform,
20:01the nationalization of the mines and the creation of the mining corporation of Bolivia,
20:05the elimination of pumpings and universal votes,
20:08and many other achievements of a social revolution that was quickly betrayed by some of its leaders
20:15that surrendered before the US pressure for interests of abroad.
20:22If it is true that with it there was a change in the property of the production means and of social relations,
20:29also, it is true that in few years a triangle plan was imposed against us
20:35that exploited more the working class and the general public in the benefit of foreign interests.
20:41In response to this outcome, the guerrillas guerrillas were born.
20:45From the 60s to 1982, we had the same luck that our neighbors.
20:53We were victims of brutal dictatorships.
20:56The Condor plan of state terrorism, where the darkest pages of our history take half a moment.
21:10The doctrine of national security prevailed on the minds of the armed forces that the enemy was not abroad but inside our borders.
21:20It was a time where criminals took away leaders and priests.
21:29But also a time where indigenous nations and minors and working class will lead heroic days of resistance.
21:44It is a special mention here because from here comes women that from the moment of independence created their own spaces to denounce the abuses of power and to present their reivindication and that of their families.
21:56One of the most important actions was the famous hunger strike that shocked the community that led to the fall of the dictator in the 80s.
22:13But once democracy was recovered through the work of the people, in the government also again, oligarchic groups boycoded the decision of parliament then, until they took the economy of the country to collapse.
22:30In that context, in which the subclasses were not able to see the course of history, the plans were ordered to install neoliberalism to take away the public poverty in favor of transnationals.
22:49This is a huge part of a marquee.
22:51This is the most important action, but this is the best practices that were in the world.
22:52But finally, we can see the next couple of communities.
22:53This is basically an open source of absolute livestreams where the whole establishment will create the same number of the people in the world.
22:55This is the most important thing about liberates the people who have become a part of the world.
22:58Now, we're going to be in favor of the entire world.
23:00In that context, we'll be talking about this, because we have to be in favor of the atmosphere.
23:03Let's close the energy we have.
23:04We're also about to the most important thing to see the people who have become very vulnerable.
23:08We can't avoid it.
23:09We can avoid the синmusic per installed in the guys' power.
23:11We've been walking down in favor of the entire country.
23:13We can see that we should be in favor.
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