12/5/2014
The Obama regime can only dream Of having voters this stupid. Oh wait, that's must be what all those Mexicans are for....
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – Latin American integration bodies meeting in Ecuador have agreed on the need to move forward in search of convergence in the existing integration processes to move past the “crossroad” at which it finds itself.
Speaking Wednesday at the forum on regional integration, Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that after a period of prosperity with extraordinary profits and vast natural resources, Latin America was now at a turning point.
She added that although the continent had reduced poverty it had not managed to end inequality and so must “make a paradigm shift” once the export model that had given the region great gains had been exhausted.
The event, which is to end Thursday, was a preamble to a summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), led by former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, that also proposes making a radical turn to Latin American integration.
“This is going to be the launching pad for a process of convergence. We are first going to meet among us brothers, the regional processes (...) and then we go to our first cousins which are Central America and the Caribbean,” said Samper about the event in Ecuador.
The UNASUR secretary-general called for the formation of a new global group which he referred to as the South-South Bloc like those led by the U.S. and Canada, Europe and Asia.
The former president, who governed Colombia between 1994 and 1998, added that the region must be capable of adding value to what it has, and stressed that “integration is going to take place through value chains that allow us to integrate ourselves with each other.”
With respect to political integration, Samper spoke of a South American passport and the accreditation of degrees, among other things, as well as a policy of “defense for the South American immigrants abroad,” that total an estimated 26 million people.
Meanwhile Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño asked UNASUR to set up a dialogue table for Latin American integration organizations to analyze regional convergence “more deeply.”
One of the most eagerly awaited guests at the event, former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, highlighted the progress made in Latin America in the fields of equality, economy and the strengthening of democracy.
Da Silva said that Latin America had managed to come out of the “poverty map” in this century which can be illustrated by the fact that between 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, urban unemployment in the region fell from 11 to 6 percent and minimum wages increased by 20 percent in most countries.
He also pointed out that countries that pursued policies of wealth redistribution, job creation and social inclusion achieved above-average economic growth.
Noting that Latin America had 7.8 percent of job creation between 2009 and 2013, according to ECLAC figures, da Silva lauded the countries’ success in dealing with the crisis, “with sovereign policies without IMF (International Monetary Fund) recipes.”
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The Obama regime can only dream Of having voters this stupid. Oh wait, that's must be what all those Mexicans are for....
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – Latin American integration bodies meeting in Ecuador have agreed on the need to move forward in search of convergence in the existing integration processes to move past the “crossroad” at which it finds itself.Speaking Wednesday at the forum on regional integration, Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said that after a period of prosperity with extraordinary profits and vast natural resources, Latin America was now at a turning point.
She added that although the continent had reduced poverty it had not managed to end inequality and so must “make a paradigm shift” once the export model that had given the region great gains had been exhausted.
The event, which is to end Thursday, was a preamble to a summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), led by former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, that also proposes making a radical turn to Latin American integration.
“This is going to be the launching pad for a process of convergence. We are first going to meet among us brothers, the regional processes (...) and then we go to our first cousins which are Central America and the Caribbean,” said Samper about the event in Ecuador.
The UNASUR secretary-general called for the formation of a new global group which he referred to as the South-South Bloc like those led by the U.S. and Canada, Europe and Asia.
The former president, who governed Colombia between 1994 and 1998, added that the region must be capable of adding value to what it has, and stressed that “integration is going to take place through value chains that allow us to integrate ourselves with each other.”
With respect to political integration, Samper spoke of a South American passport and the accreditation of degrees, among other things, as well as a policy of “defense for the South American immigrants abroad,” that total an estimated 26 million people.
Meanwhile Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño asked UNASUR to set up a dialogue table for Latin American integration organizations to analyze regional convergence “more deeply.”
One of the most eagerly awaited guests at the event, former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, highlighted the progress made in Latin America in the fields of equality, economy and the strengthening of democracy.
Da Silva said that Latin America had managed to come out of the “poverty map” in this century which can be illustrated by the fact that between 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, urban unemployment in the region fell from 11 to 6 percent and minimum wages increased by 20 percent in most countries.
He also pointed out that countries that pursued policies of wealth redistribution, job creation and social inclusion achieved above-average economic growth.
Noting that Latin America had 7.8 percent of job creation between 2009 and 2013, according to ECLAC figures, da Silva lauded the countries’ success in dealing with the crisis, “with sovereign policies without IMF (International Monetary Fund) recipes.”
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