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Choluteca Declaration
Representatives of the various social and popular organizations from
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that met in the city of
Choluteca, Honduras on 22 and 23 June declare that:
1. We form a part of a global solidarity movement, united in the
determination to fight against an economic and political model that
concentrates wealth and generates and spreads poverty and the destruction
of the planet. Diversity in thought combined with unity of action in this
struggle form the basis of our power.
2. We emphatically reject the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Plan
Puebla Panama (PPP), Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)) and any other form of
annexation disguised under the purported benefits of free trade, because:
It is untrue that they create sustainable and stable development or better
jobs.
· They threaten our peoples’ historical, cultural, and natural wealth
· They destroy national sovereignty.
· They hinder the process of building the complete democracy to which our
peoples aspire.
· They deprive people of the right to food sovereignty.
· They increase foreign debt and its social costs.
· They increase unfair trade and trade deficits for our people and our
countries.
· They are projects that cede control of our hemisphere to the large
multinational corporations based in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
3. We base our position on the failures of twenty years of neoliberalism
in Latin America, in addition to the seven years of the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has produced negative impacts on the
majority of Mexicans, as well as on workers and rural people in the United
States and Canada.
4. We condemn the protectionist policy and the cynicism of the subsidies
for agricultural and industrial production in the United States and Europe,
and more concretely the recently passed U.S. Farm Bill, in contrast to the
policy of complete liberalization of agricultural production imposed on
our countries’ governments.
5. We struggle against a system based on violence and that favors the
interests of capital over people’ needs and aspirations.
6. We believe that the resistance and unity of the various sectors of our
countries is of vital importance in confronting the dangers of new forms
of colonization and exclusion. It is not enough just to protest against
the FTAA; we must build a social movement with proposals.
In light of this situation, we propose:
1. To reject the privatization of public and natural services, the FTAA,
PPP, and FTAs.
2. To fight to change the model of dependence and foreign debt, and to
support the alternative proposals put forth by the World Social Forum.
3. To build an alternative of Central American and Continental Union based
on the proposals of the Hemispheric Social Alliance and that gives
continuity to the unifying philosophies of Bolivar, Morazan, and Marti.
4. To reject the presence of foreign troops in the region and any attempt
to remilitarize our society.
5. To reconstruct an economic base in our countries by means of true
incentive and production protection programs.
6. The immediate work is to organize the Central American people to not
elect officials and delegates who are a part of or in the service of
neoliberalism.
7. To fight for the rights and autonomy of the indigenous people in the
context of Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization.
8. Governments should protect, encourage, and finance the social sector of
the economy. We have the resources to achieve high standards of living for
this and future generations.
9. It is criminal to keep instituting policies that do not protect our
consumers and favor the consumption of imported goods.
10. To radically transform the structure of land use, encouraging agrarian
reform, protecting and promoting access to resources for production,
marketing and solidarity both with and between the true producers of
national wealth.
Another Central America is possible.
Choluteca, Honduras, 23 June 2002
Go to www.compasite.org/noticias
Mesa Alternativa Nicaraguense frente la ALCA (MANFA), Nicaragua
Red Sinti Techan, El Salvador
Coordinadora Nacional Indigena y Campesina de Guatemala
Red de Comercializacion Comunitaria Alternativa (Red Comal), Honduras
Bloque Popular de Honduras
Translation by Dan Thomas, The Development GAP
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