It Is Only Possible to Fight United

JUVENTUD REBELDE

It Is Only Possible to Fight United

A speech by Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, opened the
discussions in Caracas at the seventh Social Summit for the Latin American
and Caribbean Union

By: Marina Menéndez Quintero, special correspondent

Email: digital@jrebelde.cip.cu
2008-09-26 | 10:46:42 EST

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CARACAS. - Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcón urged people to build
greater unity in efforts and struggles for a better world, saying that only
in this way can it be achieved.

His speech opened the presentations and discussion of one of the plenary
sessions of the seventh ALBA Social Summit for the Latin American and
Caribbean Union, a conference which analyzed the important issues of the
changing regional situation. Meeting took taking place at various sites in
Venezuela, in addition to the capital.

In his presentation titled "Terrorism as a crucial problem for peace and
sustainable world development," Alarcón highlighted the need for people to
know the problems that we face in order to strengthen solidarity and to
better combine efforts.

"This," he alerted, "is indispensable in the face of the obstacles that we
have and the powerful opponents that we confront," among those being the
corporate media, which he described as manipulators of the truth.

Also at the conference was Cuban Osvaldo Martínez, a member of the
Commission on Economic Affairs of the Cuban Parliament; Irma Sehwerert, the
mother of René González; and Aylín Labañino, the daughter of Ramón Labañino.

The president of the National Assembly dedicated good part of his
presentation to update attendees about the latest fallacies of the American
injustice system concerning the five Cuban anti-terrorists fighters.

"Within this framework, nothing is so illustrative of the resistance and
value of our compatriots in the face of injustice as the recent letter by
Gerardo directed to those around the entire world who are fighting for the
release of the Cuban Five," read Alarcón at the plenary session.

The letter also highlighted the importance of solidarity in overcoming the
lies in this legal case, which has been transformed into a political
vendetta against Cuba's revolution and its people.

"Our hope," Gerardo affirms in the letter, "will not be found in any court;
our hope is you."

The double standards of the United States government were also denounced by
the head of the Cuban Parliament when commenting on Bush's speech at the UN
General Assembly, where the American leader repeated the same lies preached
in 2001 after the attacks on the Twin Towers.

According to the US leader, to take terrorists before the tribunals is the
best form of fighting terrorism, pointed out Alarcón, who added with satire,
"I thought that Posada Carriles would be a correspondent in Caracas."

Next day concluded the summit discussions in which participated deputies of
Parlatino, who are noted intellectuals of the region and members of social
and popular movements in Latin Americans and the Caribbean.