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The
forum will help to change
the history of humanity
• Affirms
Lula to tens of thousands attending the 3rd
World Social Forum
“WHATEVER
is, whatever happens, I will try to fulfill every
word promised in the government program that elected
me as president of the Republic of this country,”
declared Brazil’s leader Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, addressing tens of thousands of participants
in the 3rd World Social Forum at Porto Alegre.
Acclaimed
by crowds, Lula warned that governing is like
undertaking a Marathon, in that one cannot start at
80 kilometers per hour but take solid, concrete
steps in order to complete the mandate with the
security of having kept ones word. He went on to
allude to the strategy he plans to develop in the
international context and added that it would be
good to say to the rich nations that instead of
producing and wasting money on so many weapons, they
should invest those resources in producing beans and
rice to kill people’s hunger.
In
reference to the possibility of a military conflict,
he referred to the trillions of dollars that would
be wasted on such a war, with soldiers killing other
soldiers, killing innocent people, and, close to
here, he stressed, “there are children who look up
to beg a plate of food that in many cases is thrown
away and not given to them.”
Speaking
to Brazilians and the rest of the 100,000-plus
participants from more than 100 countries in the
Forum, he promised he would not fail them nor leave
undone the things that have to be done. He also
announced that he is hoping to make his contribution
to helping other comrades win elections in other
countries, so that the people, for once and for all,
begin to elect persons of greater sensibility, who
believe it is possible to change the history of
humanity.
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