This seems to be a speech from Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico. It is NOT! This is fake. It's interesting -- refers to historical incidents from South America, some of which I am unfamiliar with. Whoever wrote this is calling for a united South America. I have not heard that idea before. Have you?
--Kim
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BROTHERS AND SISTERS, LET US NOT BE MISTAKEN: THE ENEMY IS THE SAMETO THE PEOPLE OF OUR INDOAMERICA
From: Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico:
Why does imperialism want to see us divided?*
Because it knows that together we are invincible. The United States, a power that dresses itself in democracy while exporting coups d'état, has dug its claws into our land with a clear strategy: divide and plunder.
In Chile, it financed the coup against Allende to impose Pinochet and give away copper to its corporations.
In Nicaragua, it armed the Contras to drown the Sandinista Revolution in blood.
In Venezuela, it unleashed an economic war and criminal sanctions to steal oil and subdue a people who dared to look to the future with sovereignty.
In Brazil, it used lawfare to imprison Lula and halt the rise of the poor.
In Bolivia, it supported a coup against Evo Morales to hand over lithium to his transnational corporations.
In Cuba, it has maintained a genocidal blockade for six decades, punishing a people who chose to be masters of their destiny.
From the burning lands of the Rio Grande to the raging waters of Tierra del Fuego, we are one people, one soul woven with the threads of resistance, dignity, and shared dreams. The Great Homeland is not a utopia: it is the heartbeat of our history, the living memory of those who fought to see us free, from Túpac Amaru to Bolívar, from Martí to Che Guevara. It is the borderless territory where Quechua, Spanish, Portuguese, Guaraní, and all indigenous voices merge into a chorus that sings: Unity!
Every open wound in a country is an attack on all. Imperialism does not fear isolated governments: it fears united peoples. They have imposed treaties on us that privatize water, health care, and education; they have militarized our territories to control resources; They have manipulated the media to sow fear and individualism. But their most lethal weapon is making us believe we are enemies, that one's poverty is the other's fault, and not the fault of the system that bleeds us dry.
The Great Homeland is the answer. It is the embrace of solidarity between the Argentine worker and the Colombian peasant; between the Mexican teacher and the Venezuelan engineer; between the young people who demand justice in the streets of Peru, Ecuador, or Honduras. It is understanding that the independence of Haiti, achieved with blood in 1804, is as much ours as the victory of Ayacucho. It is knowing that when Paraguay was massacred in the War of the Triple Alliance, it wasn't just the Paraguayans who lost: we all lost.
United, we are not victims: we are titans. La Zamba de Vargas, the Battle of Carabobo, the Cry of Dolores, the Mapuche resistance, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the Zapatistas raising their voices in Chiapas… Every struggle is a link in the same chain that today calls us to break the chains. Sovereignty is not negotiable: it is defended. And to defend it, we need a political, economic, and cultural union that allows us to exchange without depending on the dollar, produce food without agrochemicals, educate with liberating pedagogies, and protect our Amazon as the lungs of the world.
*Brothers and sisters, let us not be mistaken: the enemy is the same.
* While Wall Street speculates, our people starve. While Hollywood sells us false idols, they bury our identities.
But we have something they will never have: the certainty that history is written by the people.
Today, when neoliberalism recycles its face with false promises, when the US Fourth Fleet monitors the Caribbean and military bases multiply in Colombia and Brazil, it is time to shout with one voice:
Enough interference! Enough plunder!
Let UNASUR re-emerge, let ALBA grow, let CELAC be our shield. Let us organize popular assemblies, our own communication networks, regional currencies, armies of teachers and artists who awaken consciences. Because true independence is achieved with education, organization, and love of neighbor.
*We are the generation that can make the dream of San Martín and Manuelita Sáenz a reality.
*Let us not wait to be rescued: let us be the trench, the poem, the seed. Let every neighborhood, every factory, every classroom be a free territory of the Great Homeland.
Long live a united Latin America! Until victory always!
Because in our unity lies strength, and in our struggle, freedom.
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