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FOR THE INTEGRATION AND THE UNITY OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

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October 12 of 1979

We, the delegates of the Latin American parties that represent the people of our Countries, who in accordance with our principles and actions are struggling to achieve a just, democratic and egalitarian society,

Consider:

That our vocation towards the unity of Latin America is the political expression of the ideals of Bolivar, to which we aspire through adherence to the principle of sovereign determination of all nations and through the policy of non intervention, in the understanding that in order to achieve these purposes it is necessary to establish valid relationships and policies among ourselves and in our dealings with others;

That, firm and sure as we are, that no one will do for us what we do not do for ourselves, and that no one can claim the right to care, with weapons, tariffs or whatever other pressure means, for our own sovereignty, we hereby represent that none of our countries will be truly free and independent until all the nations of Latin America are so;

That the struggle against foreign intervention and pressures can not be sufficient and effective, if within our own Countries grow disunion, repression, exploitation and inequalities, and that the abolishment of injustices and underdevelopment must not be postponed any longer;

That our Countries are disunited by unnecessary competence among each other and that pending problems and tensions among Countries of our continent, generate distance among brother nations that threaten the united and solidary action of Latin America and impose the urgency to achieve such fast and just pacific solutions which should not divide us nor place us one against another to the benefit of those who exploit us; that nothing and no one, but us and only us, by means of a combative unity against foreign intervention, exploitation and pressure, will be able to do our part in the construction of a just and free Latin America;

That the efforts towards the integration of our Countries have faced and still face, all sorts of interests that halt the process and even prevent it, distancing Bolivar´s unifying program from the feasible possibilities to make it real;

Tha the rise of organizations in developing Countries, specially in the ones of Latin America, must be supported and stimulated whenever they should represent an effort from such nations to modify those worn out and inadequate structures hindering the achievement of the people´s well being and provoking an irrational exploitation of resources to the benefit of some nations, a fact which causes great damage to developing countries;

That the crisis of the current system of world economy generates adverse conditions for the adequate development of Latin American and intensifies the breaking of capital world markets and raw material markets; that the unjust treatment in commercial, financial and technological relations imposed by highly developed Countries, handicaps imposed by powerful nations and the creation of manipulated or fictitious frictions, produce divisions in the unitary struggle of developing Countries and all sorts of pressures affecting such Countries´  self determination and their democratic decisions;

That the regions of Latin America suffer from massive poverty with millions of persons living in misery generated by the growth model and by industrialization and consumer patterns that increase the concentration of wealth and dependency;

That should this unjust growth model continue, at the end of the present century the considerable increase of the region´s urban population, generated as a consequence of the unequal development between the rural and urban areas, will pose a serious social pressure and will intensify the problems of Latin America, specially in regards to occupation, jobs and food, housing, education and health necessities;

That it is time for Latin America to undertake determined efforts to put an end to dependency, upon the basis of an adequate mobilization of its people, a revaluation of its reserves and raw materials and the support of its cultural unity, its liberal conceptions and its transformative capacity, for these must be, and will be, to the benefit of the Latin Americans;

That from such perspective the national, anti imperialist and democratic Latin American political parties should and may be, through its coordinated action, a vital factor towards the strengthening of democracy and an aid to its establishment in those countries where it is still absent;

That the youth of Latin America claims for congruence and authenticity between political thought and practice and demands honesty and action;

That sovereignty resides always in the people who have the unassailable right to modify their form of government, as is fully confirmed by the recent and significant victories of the popular and revolutionary powers in Latin America, that bury the signs of infamy, surrender and dependency of some Creole dictatorships;

The breaking up with colonization and making real the unassailable right to independence of all nations in Latin America, are irreversible historical processes which insure the failure of all colonial attempts and the definite defeat of the imperial manifest destinies;

That the current international monetary system is dominated by the most powerful industrialized capitalist Countries; such system creates favorable conditions for said Countries and their transnational corporations, while effectively frustrating intents by developing Countries to create structural changes within their own economies which tend to insure a better social justice for the majority of their people.

We therefore proclaim:

The imperative necessity to unite our efforts so as to have such relations and establish such permanent policies among ourselves and in dealings with others, as are required by our will for Latin American unity;

Our strongest reject to colonialism in all its old and new ways, names and expressions and our imperishable commitment to the struggle for independence of those Countries of Latin American who have not yet achieved their national independence;

The awareness that no Country of ours will be really free until all Latin American nations are free; that the only way to achieve freedom is by respecting non intervention and national self determination, as well as through our own efforts and by Latin American solidarity;

The unconditional respect to national sovereignty as a fundamental political decision and our inflexibility in defending it before foreign influences or pressures, before political, military and cultural interventionism and before economic subjugation;

The necessity to be congruent in our struggles against foreign dependence and intervention, through national and regional democratic efforts to achieve the constitution of a truly just and free Latin America;

Our creative support to efforts towards the integration of our Countries and towards the organizations in charge of making them real, faithful to the old and current project of Bolivar;  

Our unconditional support to the Economic Rights of the Nations, which enforcement would bring the world into an international order where peace with development, and justice with liberty would reign;

The necessity of a new international monetary system that would use the tansference of resources and its conditioning, not to reinforce under-development nor to compromise national sovereignty, but to promote an ideal development model and to strengthen the economical and political national self determination of our countries;

The promotion and defense of human rights set forth in the Universal Declaration and the necessity to count with an international instrument to guarantee social rights;

Our inflexible respect to the principle of peaceful solution of conflicts among States as well as our solidarity with all efforts in favor of general and complete disarmament and specifically, with those encouraging the suppression of military garrisons in the continent as well as with all measures that truly foster peace;

Our full identification with the concept of democratic, social and law abiding States, as the most valuable form of organization and social transformation; our unconditional support to the people´s right to modify their form of government in execution of their sovereign power;

Our commitment to the struggle for democracy to insure the participation of majorities and minorities in the State´s decision making functions, within a frame of legal certainty in which differences would be set aside, where one would profit from similarities and where ideological differences would be respected;

Our will to generate policies and instruments to insure a harmonized development of Latin American structures and cultural ways of being, stimulating the revolutionary and creative capacity of new generations, taking inspiration in the knowledge of feelings, ideas, thoughts and work of our nations´forgers;

That the democratic victories recently achieved in the continent are a legitimate triumph of all the nations of Latin America against imperialism and Creole dictatorships; the dawn of a new Latin America free from manifest destinies and colonial and neocolonial ties;

The will of national, revolutionary, democratic, anti-imperial or socialist political parties who have proclaimed their adherence to social and plural democracy in order to unite their efforts, in accordance with their respective statutes and ideological platforms, to contribute to the total integration and independence of Latin America, as well as the duty to coordinate their actions, organized civic struggles and their popular movements, to defend regional self determinations, and their concerted decisions to impel the firm defense of natural resources as a base for our people´s democratic and independent national development;

We propose to:

Permanently struggle to achieve total independence for our nations.

Jointly defend democracy and those legal institutions that guarantee real and effective popular participation in the political destiny of our nations, as well as to foster its development and perfecting.

To support the replevying struggles of the nations of Latin American without interfering with their internal policies, strengthening self determination, which is the foundation of all just and dignified relationships.

To constitute a common front before all political activities which could imply imperial foreign penetration, or that could actas a means to propitiate Fascism or any other forms of dominion.

To resolutely support the struggle towards a general and complete disarmament; to foster and absolute opposition from the people of the region towards anything that would injure the condition of a non nuclear zone, which under the spirit of the Tlatelolco Treaty has Latin America, in order to avoid the hostile use of the atom; to propitiate the suppression of foreign military garrisons and bases in the continent and to apply the financial resources thereof to the well-being and prosperity of the people.

To create a conviction and promote the means to defend, maintain the sovereignty, conservation and better use of the region´s natural resources and to guarantee the exercise of sovereignty over said resources, specially the energy and fuel resources.

To strife for negotiations of international treaties to defend Latin American interests before the expansion of transnational corporations.

To protect the development, strengthening or revision, as the case would be, of those Latin American organizations that promote the region´s economical independence before colonialism and neocolonialism.

To promote joint actions to procure, all around the world, a more just economical order and to achieve a regime constituted by educational, scientific, cultural and technological commercial inter collaboration.

To cooperate in the development of world policies to allow a responsible use of energy for the well being of all and as a responsibility of humanity, and to foster the sovereign development of the countries that posses them, as well as to benefit those Latin American countries where fuels are scarce.

To defend and promote respect to Human Rights, which include social and economical rights and the institution of political asylum.

Resolutions:

 1.- To create the Permanent Conference of Latin American and Caribbean Political Parties, as a space for joint efforts in search of agreements and to coordination of common actions towards the achievement aforesaid objectives.

2.- To establish a Coordination for said Conference. Such Coordination shall be constituted by a President, six Vice-Presidents representing the three regions and a Executive Secretary, who will be elected by consensus and who will act, initially, for a term of two years.

3.- To entrust the Coordination with the following duties:

      a)- To prepare the periodical meetings of the Conference.

      b)- To propose joint plans of action on international problems in relation to regional and  world order, in accordance with the terms set  forth in this Declaration.

     c)- To maintain continuous contact with the Conference´s member political parties and to propitiate among them a close and permanent relationship.

     d)- To foster the incorporation to the Conference of other Latin American political parties who would be willing to accept the terms of this Declaration and would subscribe the commitment to uphold its principles and to advance in the actions it contains.