This Tuesday was the closing ceremony of the 24th Forum of Sao Paulo held in Havana, Cuba, where Monica Valente, executive secretary of the organization, delivered the final conclusions of the event, highlighting the rejection of racism, intolerance and discrimination.
“We reject any form of racism intolerance and discrimination, we encourage the full exercise of women’s economic, social and political rights and the elimination of patriarchal culture,” he said.
The organization supports the lifting of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba, as well as the withdrawal of the territory occupied by the US naval base in that country, as well as the elimination of US military bases in the region.
“We demand the unconditional, total and definitive lifting of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States Government against Cuba and the compensation to the Cuban people for the damages caused by more than half a century of aggressions of all kinds (…) we demand the elimination of all US military bases that exist in the region. ”
They also support the right of Argentina over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, as well as the decolonization of the entire Caribbean and the independence of Puerto Rico at the gates of the 128 years of the United States military invasion of the Caribbean nation.
The Sao Paulo Forum demands in the letter the immediate release of Lula Da Silva to allow him to participate in the presidential elections in Brazil.
“We demand Lula’s immediate freedom after a prison sentence without evidence and the right to be a presidential candidate in the October elections in Brazil, respecting the will of the majority of the Brazilian people,” it stressed.
They support the right of the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, to participate in the upcoming presidential elections.
The text deals with the condemnation of drug trafficking and its allies in the world. The conglomerate also supports access to water as a human right and other common goods. “We fight against the threat to biodiversity and the ecosystem in general,” he said.
