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05TEGUCIGALPA1309
2005-06-20 19:03:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tegucigalpa
Cable title:  

MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 17, 2005

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UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 001309 

SIPDIS

DEPT. FOR WHA/PD; IIP/G/WHA DIPASQUALE; AND IIP/T/ES
DEPT. FOR EB/TPP DCLUNE, WHA/EPSC AND WHA/CEN
DEPT. PASS USTR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 17, 2005


UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 001309

SIPDIS

DEPT. FOR WHA/PD; IIP/G/WHA DIPASQUALE; AND IIP/T/ES
DEPT. FOR EB/TPP DCLUNE, WHA/EPSC AND WHA/CEN
DEPT. PASS USTR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JUNE 17, 2005



1. Op-ed by Melvin Martinez in San Pedro Sula-based liberal
daily "Tiempo" on 6/17, titled "The Necessary Latin
Americanism." "The greatest Latin American thinkers and
statesmen clearly understood that the integration of the
Latin American countries was a fundamental precondition for
the development of our countries and the improvement of the
quality of life for the people who inhabit this region of
the world. These countries had previously been subjected to
a cruel domination under the European powers and currently
under the United States Empire."

".Most integrationist projects today in the so called Free
Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and CAFTA are clearly
geared towards the big interest groups of the U.S. and the
political economy of that government. However, in reading
the documents related to the `Bolivarian Alternative for the
Americas' (ALBA, Spanish acronym) we can see that the
solidarity envisioned by the Latin American forefathers is
becoming the basic principle that should guide our countries
to an integration that is real and sincere and leads to the
collective creation of liberty, justice, and development."

"But to understand the approach taken by the ALBA, it is
necessary to let go of the egoism, the desire for riches,
and the unhealthy concept of competition and winning as the
essence of the economic system, which has been ingrained by
capitalist theory."


"The ALBA can be the light that guides the struggle for a
new independence and true integration of the Latin American
and Caribbean people, retaking the ideas of our forefathers
in the search for that Motherland for which Morazan, Bolivar
and Marti fought and gave their lives."

Pierce