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The meeting served as a reflection on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which was attributed to popular resistance across Latin America rather than just presidential action.
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00:00From the historical, we see a possibility of a meeting to discuss, to debate, to think
00:16what happened, to see back again, to analyze it again, with a historical perspective, reading
00:24the facts, they are modifying the present, they are describing, but we have, above all,
00:33the responsibility of some days back, when we commemorate the 80 years, October 1745,
00:43to give the importance that happened for Latin America and Argentina, what happened, there
00:51was a new declaration of independence of all Latin American countries.
01:02Also I'm celebrating that was not a simple act, I appreciate the words, the opportunity to
01:08participate in the closure, but the most important thing that happened in all those these days
01:15of discussing, reflection, collective work.
01:21We were in La Ucra, in the United States also, with Lula, with Petro, with the Spanish president,
01:33in the journey, speaking about the importance of contra-positions to resist to the EU fascism,
01:46that is reign, and is around Latin America or Europe, but I think that the most important
01:56is to plant a landmark to this cultural way, our appreciation to all of you, due to having
02:08this discussion ahead, and the agenda, and the agenda, the objectives, and also it is very
02:16important for me, and I say that as a way to make politics, it is important that when there
02:25is a meeting of this kind, when organizations, when the different sectors are in a meeting to
02:35think, and come out with proposals and projects, as recently, for the ones who have the responsibility
02:45to have functions on the government, to take those proposals, to take those projects also,
02:53as mandatory, as a program, as a commitment.
02:58You said what we have to keep on building, and we are going to build the Latin American unity,
03:06to fight for the democracy, resistance against the far right wing, and we are going to put
03:14the right corresponding place, in this case that is not only national.
03:20Well dear friends, after these reflections about these things that we have talked, I want to
03:28take some teaching, with a 20 years perspective, some teaching. The first one, it was going to happen
03:38in 2005 in Mar del Plata. It was a result of a series of movement, transformation that were happening in the world,
03:52and that had their own history. It was not simply a group of presidents. It was not only a group of presidents.
04:01Sometimes, when we get some victories, when you advance over the enemy,
04:11they tried to point out the one that has the singing voice or the microphone. It was not a no to the FTL.
04:24It was about the fight that was occurring in Latin America. Who destroyed the FTA was the Latin American people.
04:33Then, to say that 20 years, we are turning 10 years from that historical date, but the T, the FTA was a project
04:50that was coming from before, and it's important to do a brief reflection about historical process,
04:58because all we have been, the U.S., the prisoner from the perception, the present, the pools, the particular relations,
05:11a process that is happening, the daily things, but at the same time, you participate in a historical flow that is having a path.
05:21You have to understand, to really understand where history is going on, or to have a map, to know where we want to take it,
05:31where we want to lead it. This is important because the FTA project began in 1994.
05:46They are really 30 years from the beginning of the FTA till the end of the FTA.
05:53And I think that is very important to see it because when we design the architecture, the engineering of this treatment,
06:03leadership by USA that took all Latin American countries, it is doing it in the middle of a situation
06:14in the world history, a very particular one. We are speaking about 94.
06:21So, some years ago, the world falls. The world has a result, as a product, that they fixed the idea of the end of the story,
06:37the end of the ideologies, the end of the work also. He said,
06:45He said,
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