Saving life,
saving Mother Earth
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Cuba will firmly and resolutely
support the Cochabamaba agreements, affirms Vice
President Esteban Lazo
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Evo gives the losing speech and
Chávez calls on everyone to prepare for the Mexico
Summit
COCHABAMBA, April 22.— Cuba will firmly and
resolutely support the Cochabamaba agreements to
defend Mother Earth, affirmed Cuban Vice President
Esteban Lazo Hernández, addressing more than 35,000
people attending the closing event at the First
People’s World Conference on Climate Change, which
was brought to a close on Thursday afternoon by
Bolivian President Evo Morales, PL reports.
Lazo
passed on greetings from the leader of the Cuban
Revolution, Fidel Castro and Cuban President Raúl
Castro.
He stated that the people’s summit in Cochabamba
demonstrated popular awareness on climate change and
contributed to the quest for real solutions to this
crucial phenomenon that is threatening the survival
of humanity.
In his closing words Bolivian President Evo
Morales Ayma stated that the meeting "Opens up hope
for the world to fight for the life and survival of
the planet."
For his part, Hugo Chávez, president of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, urged the social
movements to unleash a new battle aimed at the UN
conference planned for December of this year in
Cancun, Mexico.
Chávez pointed to the capitalist system as the
cause of the climate debacle and urged the people to
overthrow it and implement socialism, the only path
toward the salvation of the peoples.
During the event, Ecuadorian Lina Kawuanski and
American Vico Enosti read out the principal
conclusions of the Cochabamba forum, listed in a
document titled "Agreement of the Peoples."
