by the El Reportero’s news services
Rafael Correa
We are a continent, a region, a nation of peoples heading for the future with determination, said Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, after saying that Latin American integration and change cannot be stopped by anyone.
Now that we have signed the birth certificate of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), we confirm that we are a giant people, diverse peoples, that will never be alone again, and have charted our united path, he said.
Last night, at the end of the solemn session of Quito’s Metropolitan Council for the 477th anniversary of its foundation, the President reviewed the investment of some two billion dollars by the Citizen Revolution in works of social benefit in the capital.
This is the new era of the homeland. We need to move with urgency, we cannot afford to lose time, we must build a new Ecuador and we have already lost too much time; Correa said.
We are building a future of freedom, security, trust, a future of Good Living, solidarity and shared joy. We are building on the ideal city that does not exist yet but it is already prefigured in the dreams of all the inhabitants of Quito, he said.
Finally, he recalled Simon Bolivar, “that remarkable Latin American who thought in centuries and in a continent-wide panorama,” in whose dreams he discerned our Patria Grande (Great Homeland) of peace and solidarity, with only one huge heart in the shape of a continent.
Mass turnout for Colombia’s ‘Freedom March’
On 6 December hundreds of thousands of people marched in 60 cities across the world (40 in Colombia and 20 in the US and Europe) under the banners of “no more Farc” and “free them now”.
