Statement of President Evo Morales Ayma to the gathering of Heads of State of the European Community, (06/30/2013). With simple words, simultaneously translated, President Morales spoke to more than one hundred Heads of State and dignitaries of the European Community: Well, here am I, Evo Morales. I have come to meet those who celebrate the encounter. Well, here am I, a descendant of those who populated America forty thousand years ago. I have come to meet with those who discovered her only 500 years ago. Well then, here are we all. We know who we are, and that is a lot. We will never have anything else. A European brother, a customs officer, asks me for a written paper with a visa to be able to discover those who discovered me. A European brother, a usurer, asks me for payment of a debt contracted by Judas, whom I never authorized to sell me. The European brother pettifogger explains to me that all debts are to be paid with interest, even when human beings and whole countries are sold without asking for their consent. I am discovering you now . I, too, can demand repayment, and can also demand interest. In the Archives of Indies, there is written, page after page, receipt after receipt, signature after signature, that between the years of 1503 and 1660 alone,185,000 kilograms of gold and 16 million kilograms of silver were brought from America to San Lucas de Barrameda. Plundering? I will not believe that! Because that would mean thinking that the Christian brothers betrayed their Seventh Commandment. Pillaging? Save me Tanatzin, from supposing that the Europeans, like Cain, would kill, and deny the blood of their brother! Genocide? That would mean to credit the slanderers, such as Bartolome de las Casas, who define the encounter as the destruction of the Indies, or to extremists such as Arturo Uslar Pietri, who affirms that capitalism and the present European civilization derive from the flood of precious metals! No! Those 185,000 kilograms of gold and 16 million kilograms of silver must be considered as the first of many friendly loans from America, destined for the development of Europe. To say otherwise would be to assume the existence of war crimes, which would give us the right not simply to demand their immediate return, but also indemnification for damages.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:12:09 +0000
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