Friday 19 December
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Latin America Promotes
Multipolar World
Russia, Nicaragua Boost
Relations
Honduras´ Zelaya Bashes
IMF Schemes
Lula Highlights Raul
Castro's Visit to Brazil
Brazil Urges U.S. To Lift Embargo
Against Cuba
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Honduras´ Zelaya Bashes
IMF Schemes
Costa de Sauipe -
Honduran president,
Manuel Zelaya,
criticized worldwide
abuse of mercantilism
and decisions of some
Latin American countries
to accept International
Monetary Fund (IMF)
schemes.
In a brief address to
the 1st Latin American
and Caribbean Summit on
Integration and
Development, the
president considered
mistaken the positions
of countries that accept
recommendations of
Washington.
These policies, among
other things, weaken the
states that comply with
them in which public
services are privatized,
"often in an irregular
manner and lacking
transparency," the
president emphasized.
The recommendations of
the financial
institutions – he
stressed – have created
a mercantile
fundamentalism in our
society that privileged
imperfect and elitist
market systems that did
not boost our
development; quite the
contrary, it
impoverished a large
part of our population
and caused damage to
Latin America and the
world.
Zelaya called for
international relations
based on respect for the
self determination of
the peoples and for the
need to democratize the
United Nations Security
Council so that, in
addition to the five
powers that form it,
South American Central
American and Caribbean
states, among others, be
represented.
The Honduran president,
who spoke as outgoing
president of the System
of Central American
Integration also called
on the international
community to create a
World Monetary Consensus
with the representation
of small nations. |
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