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00:00with this you that are also elders because you come from your own lands from the land
00:13where you relate with this place and that it's related with the sea and it also has a forest
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01:56For us, the Sierra Nevada, and we have said it for many years, it's the heart of the world.
02:04And that's how we've sustained it.
02:06From this place, we do know that it connects with other points and places where you live, the places where you are.
02:16There, it's an energy that connects the seas, the mountains, and the snowy mountains.
02:24And that's why here, our responsibility, it's that this is in place.
02:30We do know that human actions, and we do know that the interventions, when there is a mandate, has been irrespected for many years.
02:39And we know that there is a disbalance.
02:40We know that there's some mandates, some codes that are written.
02:43But to unacknowledge these codes has brought disasters.
02:47There has been a lack of understanding between nature and men, we hear as mamas.
02:54We have been present, and we know that if you affect the mountains, but what first the parts that are at the base of the mountains, it's what it's affected first.
03:06And then this affects the mountains, and these mountains also affect other places that are in other mountains and in other parts of the world.
03:16That's why we want that these words may fill your hearts, that may fill your minds.
03:26Let's pray.
03:56we are siblings we are people and we are siblings we do know that in amongst our siblings there
04:14are differences we do know that it's sometimes it's it's understandable but we do know that
04:22there it's an awareness and we know that we leave on this land and we need to learn how to live
04:28amongst us we need to live in a very divine harmony amongst us and that that's an effort
04:34and that's a challenge for us and that we need to accomplish this because if we don't do it how
04:42what's going to happen what's going to happen with our environment what's going to happen with the
04:46mountains what what's going to happen with the lakes and the lagoons
05:02i wish that this can i wish that this you can keep this in your minds and in your brains and in your
05:32hearts that we need to work on this that it's not just empty words but that there are facts and
05:39they're very specific conditions because if that's not the case we wouldn't see what are the actions
05:48what are the facts and and the president of colombia the president of the heart of the world knows that
05:58he is in charge and knows that from naboosimake which is the which is the the capital of the arhuwako
06:08peoples he has been uh appointed and that he is he is the one that it's um celebrating this event he
06:19he knows he knows he knows what he has to do with regarding the protection of the land and we as we
06:28said we expect we expect we expect it we expect him this year
06:33i will just share i'm going to share only these words for now thank you so much thank you so much
06:51with the voice and the wisdom of the indigent of the indigenous arhuwako community we would like to
07:08welcome you to the city of santa marta the oldest city in the america said that it's characterized by
07:16its diverse nature that it's filled with history and magic allowing for the reincarnate our encounter
07:21in the heart of the world this re-encounter of the latin american states in the caribbean will
07:27strengthen the regional links and will allow the consolidation of a latin american and caribbean voice
07:33that it's unified and that allows to have an impact in all the global transformations with the european
07:40union in very key areas as energy transition sanitary self-sufficient regional and integration of trade
07:48and also scientific digital cooperation and we now without further ado we're going to give the floor to
07:55the president of the republic of colombia mr gustavo petro rego
08:00thank you so much uh mr president of the european council antonio costa
08:06and my my colleague and also the excel the ex and all my excellent the president of the government
08:13of spain pedro sanchez and my colleague and also the president of the of the of the federal republic
08:19of brazil ignacio lula da silva and also a colleague we are surrounded by colleagues and also his highness
08:28of the european union for foreign and political affairs miss kayakalas and his excellence the ministry of
08:35foreign foreign affairs of the republic of uruguay mr mario lewitkin and his his highness the
08:42subsecretariat of foreign affairs and the national coordinator in representation of the republic of
08:48honduras mr herlando torres elaya his highness the ministry of foreign affairs and foreign trade
08:53of jamaica and also miss camina johnson smith and also his highness of presidents and prime ministers and
09:02chiefs and chiefs of states and government of the of all the attendees and also the vp of the colombian
09:09francis marquez and then also all the ambassadors and all the representatives of international
09:17organizations that have been that have been accredited before the government and also all the ministers
09:23and all the officers of the national government and also the authorities of the department of magdalena mass
09:29media and also the civil authorities of the civil and indigenous authorities because here we're talking
09:37from government from government in this same territory and also the kogi arzario arhuaco canquamo
09:44people so from the sierra nevada of santa marta and all the mass media my daughter antonena metro that
09:51it's around and also everybody who's here with us in this ceremony for the opening ceremony of the fourth
09:59latin american career union european select summit and okay i cannot talk on behalf of the of the group
10:10of select because select has some statutes that make that everything it's done through consensus
10:16and i think that um think that um think that the statutes need to be changed but this is something
10:22that's lack has to do because it eliminates its of its operations its capabilities because we'll never
10:28have an anonymous um opinion between the government and the world and any government in the world
10:35in the celaca can say no and so things are not done and to be able to achieve a relative consensus
10:42becomes um something that it's critical for an organization like celac and um and that's why celac and
10:50in in in the assemblies but okay but this is something that makes me to talk here as the president of
10:58colombia and i also um give my opinions on this opinions i was in the past summit in brussels it's this is the
11:05fourth summit i think that we need to make an assessment because the world has changed it would always change
11:11change and because it's life it's a constant fluid that's what the indigenous peoples of says and as
11:18well as a heraclitus hegel and many others and in this flow today we have to make a very specific
11:24analysis of the situation where we're at of course there are there are some common topics common action
11:34topics that europe and latin america and the caribbean can can do and they can develop we are in a very
11:43challenging context and we all know about this each government has its positions and i believe that
11:50most of the governments know and we have acted and how to reduce the barbaric the barbaric events that
12:00want to flood the world there is a political contradiction between the democratic project
12:07that was um that was developed in europe in north america and also in latin america and maybe all the
12:15countries in in their history maybe all the countries have tried the idea of democracy and their own
12:24ideas in their own processes in their own languages but in the recent and contemporary history we do
12:31know that it was in europe it was in latin it was in in north america latin america and the caribbean
12:41and especially in the caribbean when we started to develop some um written thesis in french that were
12:48brought in a clandestine manner in the different vessels but that became real not
12:54and amongst those that were the governors and back then but um but also in the peoples that were not
13:02western peoples and that were being dominated in the caribbean islands and we can see that the
13:09did that the black peoples that were brought by force from africa under a very terrible episode
13:18slavery of which of which of which that has had a very this is a very horrible effect and it's
13:27because of slavery it's something that has been something terrible because we're trying to treat
13:32people as as slaves on benefit of others and as objects and this created a difference chris created a
13:39sort of subconscious element in politics and this brand you know that because of the skin differences
13:49that gave way to racism that gave ideas to a different kind of race and that gave to another barbaric
13:56events the nazis what happened with them etc that's why democracy became real and became like a weapon it
14:05became people it became a horse because back then that's why it happened we they galloped with the banner of
14:14freedom in this same municipality we created the the first palenque in santa marta and the close in
14:22cartagena and bencobiojo built the first free state in the whole american territory and we once we thought of the
14:33world freedom or liberty we created another essential topic that it's associated to this which is the
14:39concept of democracy we talk a lot about republic but we don't talk about democracy because maybe
14:45democracy it's an unfinished project nobody has the definite solution to how the power of the people
14:53becomes real because democracy doesn't mean more than the power of the people and in one way or the other
15:00this power of the place of the people that it's replaced by all kind of intermediaries that keep
15:06the power and then dictatorship the tyranny the despotism because here in latin america it's something
15:13that we've also endured it was the indigenous and the black people that once that created a battle for
15:20independence and for liberty in the processes started of course on a complete process and uh we can see that
15:27that bolivar there was a liberator bolivar we can say that the liberator that was um that was an incomplete
15:38fear because he died with a slave by his side apparently they didn't give him just water he he died in
15:45in um in um in an ascienda nearby and he is commemorated with a fascist
15:54statue because uh a lib uh there was a liberal um architect that did the monument and they did the
16:01they built it as they built the mussolini statutes back in italy and he left us this uh architectonic
16:08horror that we can't remove but this is where bolivar died in an incomplete manner and he left us a message
16:15for unity in the america this is something that we would like to discuss in this joint statement in
16:21one of its points he wanted a political uh he wanted a latin american political unit that's what he wanted
16:29that was very difficult back then because everything was new everything was recently born how to how to
16:36build a parent a parliament how to build a party how to build the bar the word democracy when there was
16:43slavery and that was the same concept that was being considered in the in the united states how to
16:49build freedom if there were slaves and he took the united states to a civil to a to a very
16:58cruel civil war and so did we in this in this lands we can see that the literature from 100 years of
17:05solitude shows the the loneliness of colombia in its permanent struggle against something that it
17:13doesn't doesn't know what it is but what they wanted to be able to have a democracy and freedom this
17:19incomplete bolivar wanted to to to to join and to the end they created the amphiconic conference that
17:28was going is going to be held in panama but i would like to say that panama back then was the new grenade
17:34it was part of the new grenade in the new spanish grenade and and the new spanish grenade became independent to
17:43towards all the combats there was a war and it was also and in since 1816 it was part of the republic of
17:52the great colombia and from the the great colombia that blended venezuela colombia and the nicaragua
18:02dominican republic and and even we all it came nowadays we have conflict between haiti and dominican republic
18:11but this banner with its blue and red color it's the same color of haiti that it's here from haiti we have the idea of
18:20of freedom and it came from the black people that wanted to become free from the french that had also uh
18:28uh fight it in their own country wonder that the idea of liberty fraternity to have the disanfionic
18:36conference as an idea of uh regional integration in the ism which is what which was blended the north
18:43and the south and there was a discussion whether the united states should be a part of it or not
18:48it's history i know but i think that it's important to to think about this declaration the european
18:55union has had an even more recent integration but more successful integration process a process
19:02it's a bit more old it starts from disanfionic conference but it's much more literally and um
19:12and there are centrifuge forces that move us away the economy of the world creates some challenges for
19:21each country that i believe it's something that we should do that we should manage in a unified manner
19:27but sometimes we move we separate from those challenges finally there are two integration process
19:33one here one in latin america and the caribbean that i think that we need to delve on and there's
19:37one more developed with a lot of discussions in the different um in the different countries in europe
19:43and both are guided by the thesis of freedom and democracy the question is no longer how it was in
19:51the past but how how is the thing today and what does what is freedom today what it's democracy today
20:02when when there are bombs being dropped in gaza and even now bombs are being dropped and a country like
20:08this has been massacred and now we have now their missiles being launched in the caribbean the same
20:17manufacturing of the ones that are dropped in gaza are being dropped here over poor people in this city
20:26one died and yesterday i visited his family and mr alejandro carranza i went to his home yesterday
20:34his father was a fisherman he was a fisherman that was an expert in insane handling uh speedboats maybe he
20:42was hired maybe he was not but he was died because of he was a victim of a missile in the in the caribbean sea
20:50and uh and the blood uh affected the the blue and i went to visit his family and his uh death it's
20:59on the idea that he's a that he's a a narcoterrorist which is a new concept and the family lives with he's
21:06a without a home the family it's a homeless isolated family in the poorest uh city of santa marta the
21:15daughter uh that maybe the father was trying to make make hers hers daughter go to school did something
21:23that they couldn't do but never did that family could be considered narco terrorists and even and even at
21:33the light of the the the idea of democracy and freedom in the world i mean this this person has
21:42been killed under all these concepts it was an extrajudicial um extrajudicial uh killing and it's been
21:51and it's been um hundreds in this see that it's the house that welcomes this is today's world
22:03as a representative of your government have different positions i know i think that we
22:15should be conscious that in today's world where barbarism um advances over there in the middle east
22:22and ukraine in russia over there and here in the caribbean where the word democracy was born for america the
22:30word democracy the power um popular power the palenque which is what was a popular power what we have
22:41is to be a beacon a light a century of light they said of europe but the the century of light was also
22:51a caribbean they're a beautiful literature a book were good poets alejo carpenter has a novel
22:58name the century of light which shows how that world of life which is nothing more than the the lantern of
23:07diogenes from greece but brought to the present was created in the caribbean differently the century the
23:16caribbean century of light brought independence to america to the north to the south and to the center
23:23this is a sea of democratic revolution over which missiles are dropping and so how can we be a beacon
23:38while we europeans latin americans and europeans are here a beacon to the world without falling into the
23:45thesis that we are superior without falling into the thesis that we are that we exist to dominate it
23:52we are to to hold there is a special characteristic of the latin american people is that because we
23:59having all the bloods of the world in our veins can talk to the whole world without any problems we can
24:05dance whether it is in arabia or africa or asia asia europe whether it be here and we dance and dance as we
24:16saw last night is a dance with the stars and with the other with the difference we can be different and
24:25understand each other even though we might kill ourselves um columbia has been an example of how
24:33it can go out from one violent time and then go right into another but for this instance what i propose
24:40are not and let me not use too much time this coffee uh produced by the um indigenous people in the de coco
24:49our products are not um a priority good
24:55good these are life good the priority is life the sierra nevada as the indigenous people say
25:06here is the heart of the world we are not creating literature it is the truth fourth country to attract
25:15uh the nomad um animals of the planet because there is an energy and that is how the uh indigenous people
25:25uh deemed it ancestrally that is why the struggle with spain the moment the spanish came here
25:32and it took a century 100 years of indigenous resistance and that is why they went up the mountains to
25:41preserve um a thought a belief and that belief that is expressed here is nothing more that they took care
25:50of the heart of the world to take care of the heart of the world because should this fall then the world would be
25:57destroyed it is the thesis of the indigenous people who live here and that is why i wanted this place to
26:04be the center of this meeting because here in the heart of the world we have to care for the world
26:12in its nature in its life in the uh cohabitation of human beings the flag remains the same a free
26:21humanity and a global democracy that would allow uh differences of any kind which are
26:27uh wealth you know a unanimous humanity is a dead humanity how to achieve this in peace how to pacify
26:38what today is war storm how to contain the forces that are unleashing barbarism how to make democracy a
26:48reality in the world not as a single formula that a country exports but rather a collective construction
26:56of dialogue of dialogue of civilizations there is a dialogue of civilizations here and it could be
27:03an example for the world two civilizations met with uh in blood with a sword and and arrows killing
27:14themselves mutually we now meet in peace two different civilizations several different civilizations
27:22nations it is humanity is possible in difference and that is why i want to start like european union
27:30summit it is my wish uh to be a beacon of light in the middle of barbarism or amidst barbarism and that
27:37it might be able to tell the world that to um meet that to um hold dialogue between several that a global
27:44democracy and that a human a free humanity is possible now still when barbarism is advancing and killing
27:52people thank you very kind for having heard me thank you uh mr president of the republic of colombia
28:07gustavo petro the president of the european council has the floor mr antonio costa
28:17dear president gustavo petro distinguished heads of state and government honorable ministers
28:28excellencies ladies and gentlemen it is a great honor
28:31honor to inaugurate together to inaugurate together with president petro this fourth summit of the latin
28:38american and the caribbean community with the european union i thank president petro and colombia
28:46for um hosting this summit in this beautiful city of santa marta it for me it is a pleasure and i know it is a
28:57pleasure for all of us to come here and to dance with you in the first place i want to um say hello to the
29:08delegates of the 70 countries and the international countries um here in the in attendance and express
29:15my solidarity with the most affected countries or countries most affected by uh the hurricane melissa
29:23which so much destruction has um um um done in the caribbean in a multi-polar world be by regional
29:34cooperation between europe latin america and the caribbean is more important than ever
29:42and the truth is that in my long political career i have never seen
29:48so many exchanges between our two regions it took us eight years to hold a a summit after 215 now
30:04only two years have gone by since the last in 2023 in brussels now from that last summit or since that last
30:14coming we have increased our contact at every level with over 600 visits high level visits between the
30:25european union and latin america and the caribbean we have called on ministerial meetings we have met in
30:36in sub sub sub regional and bilateral formats only during the last um general assembly of the united nations
30:46the ministers the foreign
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