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Alternative Summit opens in Vienna
BY ALBERTO NUÑEZ AND JOSE M.
CORREA, Granma daily special correspondents
VIENNA, May 10.—“We are in the
time of Pachakutik, which means returning to better
moments, a time in which the peoples are defending
their liberation,” affirmed Ecuadorian indigenous
leader Blanca Chancoso at the start of the
political-cultural event that opened the Throwing up
Alternatives Summit in Vienna’s Stadhalle hall.
Johan Galtung, the outstanding
peace fighter, ratified his prediction that the fall
of imperialism is visible, because it will be
shattered by the very social movements in the United
States.
Problems as fundamental as land
and water were aired by Guatemalan Bishop Alavaro
Ramozzini and Joao Pedro Stadle, leader of the
Landless Movement in Brazil.
They both affirmed that the
principal cause of so much poverty is the
exploitation provoked by European colonial
exploitation over the centuries, later aggravated by
the actions of finance capital and the
transnationals, basically U.S. ones.
In answer to a question, writer
and anthropologist Miguel Barnet stated that the
realities of Cuba are being defamed or silenced in
the powerful media because the island has been an
alternative since 1959. That explains why there is
nothing published on the immense work of solidarity
by Cuban doctors and teachers throughout the world,
he noted.
That kind of demonizing is also being suffered by
left-wing governments in Latin America, like
Venezuela and Bolivia, noted Maurice Lemoine, editor
of Le Monde Diplomatique.
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