Comrades:
In our meeting yesterday was adopted by acclamation the text of the Open Letter / 8 "American Indian: legacies and challenges." Enclose a copy of two files in Word so that nobody has problems with download. You will also find the text in today's issue of
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Indoamericano: legacies and challenges.
1) Overflowing and moving, hours the end of October were in deep distress and militant reassertion of power reflection and galvanized around a project of transformation and emancipation of the motherland. Days will be recorded in the popular memory as one of those unique moments where something is sealed. In the farewell and tribute to the dedication and commitment of thousands and thousands, were recorded word and gesture inauguration of new horizons of justice and dignity of Nestor Kirchner. It is from understanding the open in May 2003, against the background of the demonstration in which a substantial part of the Argentine people turned the grief over the death of a central player in recent history support his mate and the continuity of the national project she leads, which we can not say our word, at times serious and full of possibilities that are manifested in these days, in which the conviction to move towards a more just country is threatened by the forces of the removal and conservative regression.
one hand, the polyphonic voices of the multitudes entering the stage to announce his decision to take in hand the political life in Argentina, and on the other shots. On route 86, Formosa, together with the ways of Rock in barracks, in the occupations of land south of Buenos Aires, shooting, and in the streets and squares and places of assembly, vital and laid claim to a country far from the dreams of those who live and will sustain and carry forward a course. Counterpoint rough and strange, but not unpredictable, whose sound punctuates the uniqueness of the historical period and the unique demands that arise. Painful and hopeful, open to the unexpected and subjected to strenuous challenges of coping with the complex and amazing historical moment we are experiencing is indeed above all, a high number of people's needs and strive to meet those needs, and not the stage started in 2003 and his persistent deepening since then can be understood without linking closely to the lucidity with which they were recognized needs and struggles and the courage with which they sought solutions.
2) There are no strangers to the ways in which needs were recognized and implemented solutions tide of political passion and awareness that encourages crowds in the country. Including, what hundreds of thousands of Argentines made a public commitment to defend, the hitherto unpublished decision to the rejection of the repression of protests or political or social claims a basic and indispensable. Aiming to pierce this principle, the display of brutality that took the lives of Ferreyra Mariano, Roberto Lopez, Rosemary Churupaña, Bernardo Castañeda Juan Salgueiro and realizes Quispe the lack of repairs that are striving to recover their old privileges neoliberal order and who were its beneficiaries. Not extinct at all but still active in the structures of society, and even embedded in the same state, the neoliberal order. Popular mobilization is needed suggests that other matrix state, and questioned an order that is being assumed unchanged in the lines of Nestor Kirchner to order, in an act of blunt challenge to that order, to pick up the portrait of dictator Videla. If the attempt agromediáticas destituyente of employers failed to realize its objective through the triumph of 2009, and if the decision to double the bet that they chose in response Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez was a blossoming of political and popular participation that were unimaginable until recently, the current lack of perspective leads to electoral destituyente force passes through violence, as well as inflation and uninterrupted work of erosion big business media.
never ceased to be the use of violence in the map as possible, but this new breakthrough has to wonder about the conditions that underlie it, beyond the obvious observation that there are strong powers that be: like no other President before in Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, who was noted that State government and royal power are not synonymous. The more the gap grows between the two more conflicts: both an opportunity and a danger, if not taken note of what is at stake in the situation and reacting accordingly.
not understand the option for making the anti-political death if not they realize that this is a historic turning point: the existence of vast sectors noisy and not only accompany but decided to step forward, is a reality marks a turning point in the interior of what began a decade ago. Instituting deep, popular mobilization Kirchner makes the project is no longer the same: to live a situation unimaginable in 2003, claims leaving behind conditions that hinder the project or playing against him. The persistence of these conditions, what appears reactionary creaks and facts expressed in Villa Soldati, Formosa or barracks, but also in other sections of a chain which consists of the evictions of peasants from Mocase in Santiago del Estero, murder of young mobilized in Bariloche, the persecution of peasants in other northern provinces as a result of the "conquest of the wilderness of low intensity" that are causing those struggling to dig a specialization model exclusionary soybean, tending to relapse into an insert Subordinate Argentina in a globalized world, the antipodes of the draft national autonomy and settlement of asymmetric economic relations inaugurated by Nestor Kirchner.
3) Because they did much, precisely, is that attention comes to claim what is not yet done. So vast is the deterioration that led to the dictatorship and the neoliberal governments that no reparative effort can complete the task. What has been untouched over the years, precisely, is what appears in the game nowadays. Breeding ground for murderers and destituyentes, for xenophobia and racism, it untouched, the limitations that were not transferred in the dramatic progress of the project, he makes it there greater conflict will erupt. The magma of the outstanding issues: housing, rail system, labor outsourcing, persistent communal and provincial administrations closely linked to sectors of the power bloc, self-government security forces, forms of union bureaucracy incompatible with any democratic and popular project. And in addition to all the emergence of private forces, the drug, which comes with its economic, geographical presence, source of killers, as nerve inherent in the conservation of an order made popular fragmented life and no future for the weak. Such as drug trafficking and gunfire of hooligan thugs, and the virulent bellicosity poor against poor people speak of a life severely damaged. The logic of the gangs and the gangs that appear to suggest that the depoliticization of social decomposition process started decades ago has a depth such that the decisions taken by any government are difficult to elucidate.
Much is complex and difficult it is to be done when frames are so deeply rooted to undo, and when the economic interests of hegemonic power and its effects against people's interests operating on the opportunities that present their own model opens. It is not just a government job can not be done if only opt for the expectation that government backers. Moreover, because State remains structured so that he could grounded on the neoliberal order. And if Nestor Kirchner was able to strike the steering wheel that makes driving the state, which is no small compared to the previous situation, the need to deepen the project hits the limits of a State which is not prepared for the changes, field of battle and problem solving for the changes that hints at the skyline. Both the persistence of ossified structures in the national government and provinces such as old and entrenched state labor logic underlying the culture of Argentina require finding ways to overcome for those who aspire to a sustained and original process deepening of democracy.
The decision to create a Ministry of Safety and entrust the conduct of Nilda Garre will give direction to the slope face. It should not be necessary to await the conflict breaks out, as often happens, to show a solution that will surprise and ratify the path begun in 2003, but anyway this is a step that, if it continues with the same courage and firmness in others, establish the best platform for the conquered is not diluted. Will not happen if it does not face the triumphalist illusions hiding the unresolved, dilute the perception of conflict and lounging in the survey data to float passively away from the stake to risk allowing the achievements in several fields, Kirchner won, including the popular approval. If among the most notorious of these achievements was the strong recovery in politics, as in other Latin American countries and opposite direction to what appears to be the prevailing norm in the U.S. and Europe, will be policy continuity, and not overcome the policy through the illusion of an administration that claims to represent the whole society, as if there were competing interests, thereby making further progress. On the economic situation and the existence of a further reinforced popular support, this is the best time for structural reforms that the people mobilized and very specific urgencies of the population demand.
4) In this sense, becomes all the dimensions of the idea of \u200b\u200bwealth distribution. Talk, here and now, distribution of wealth involves talking not only more social investment-refuting such arguments as they are "resources but are badly managed" and those who maintain the thesis of restriction and adjustment of the IMF, but also and indispensably, a tax reform. There is an unavoidable need to keep in suspense the egalitarian paradigm that characterizes this social moment, a course that also claims to have with a new law on financial institutions, reform of the charter of the Central Bank, the share of workers in corporate profits and fund policies to address the threat of inflation targeting and price makers who focus product supply and marketing, even with the inevitable resistance and obstructive maneuvers, even violent, that these measures will unleash. Redistribution is not resolved without conflict, nothing is so bound up with the rising social conflict as the redistributive.
social inequality is one of the pressing issues brought to the fore the President to emphasize that "it will" lo que hierve en el trasfondo. Que haya pobres lanzados masivamente a ocupar predios en busca del techo que no tienen es una cuestión alarmante, cualquiera sea el origen de esa decisión. Aunque no deja de incidir en ello la incapacidad del actual gobierno porteño para cumplir sus promesas y la monolítica indiferencia ante el sufrimiento social que resulta de su ideología y de los intereses que defiende, no alcanzaría tanta dramaticidad el problema si la brecha entre quienes tienen más y quienes tienen menos no siguiera jugando un rol determinante, aun con las distintas medidas adoptadas para reducir la desocupación y aumentar la capacidad adquisitiva de los sectores con menores recursos. Sobre ese espeso y candente caldo de cultivo operan los destituyentes, now doomed to promote, through its claims of order against the "tyrants that disrupt thousands of citizens" and their cries of alarm over the "lack of authority" to create fear and hatred, a burner apolitical or anti-political conflict to cancel or stifle the energetic revival of political commitment and the outbreak of the power of shared affection in the search for a common destiny, guided by the realization that, as never before in decades, are brought into play two alternative country radically exclusive of each other.
5) From this perspective, we must continue to emancipate the nation's history of the most corroded which cherishes in his bosom, which, for example, make the exploitation of nature is bordering on the looting, private businesses and the endangered common natural heritage. Aboriginal peoples alert us to the risk that threatens all humanity. It is not only against them that injustice and ferocity of the Desert Campaign still seem to be present. It is then necessary to seek a new way of territorial justice, woven with new economies and community surveys. And if the repression is incompatible with national government policies, so is the theft, which involves continuing to own common history, the threat of a paralyzing force, the small groups focused service of domination. Against these and other threats is a generous spirit runs through the country aiming to celebrate the common task and will certainly strengthen and expand the achievements and practices in human rights, social justice, democratization of communication and reaffirmation of Americanism of the people in the path of the most vigorous measures that characterize this administration.
there an ethical dimension, above any consideration of expediency or convenience, in that spirit, and it is unthinkable without it, any attempt to transform the state, essential to prevent a reversion to the past. It is not being naive or cultivar abstract moralism, or ignoring that there are relative strengths and weaknesses of their own, but bet to become detached from the comfort of what is taken for granted. Police and fire repressing orders not only meets the provincial states and headquarters unable sensitized to social and historical issues of prime importance to the evidence or that are basic needs that have to come together to occupy an area largely due. These sectors diehards voices heard very old, well-known texts, which continue to guide from the shadows of history these last chapters of the Desert Campaign and patrols of the Tragic Week, with the model of drastic solutions to people deemed inferior or foreign unresectable stigmatized as an infection. Great names of our history and literature, a progressive perspective even spoke of mestizaje as a bad or inability constitutes indigenous peoples to be part of national life, with similar safety which holds the set Mauricio Macri reasons of blood and fire suppression in the presence of uncontrolled immigration from neighboring countries. Rival of xenophobic fever as right response to the crisis plaguing the U.S. and Europe, pick an address frontally Macri contrary to the winds of integration and brotherhood without boundaries, and full inclusion of diversity, encouraging at this time to Latin America.
The historical development of Argentina as a nation experiences a style that must be overcome. The progressivism in its most vacuous, in its various forms political, scientific and military, and their meanings conservative and leftist, failed to understand the sensitive needs of a knowledge of history flows, the plurality of civilizational forms and the existence of pre-existing cultural rights of the people devastated by the expansion of agricultural frontiers of capitalism, which today again show its voracious predators. Not that this is surprising in the intellectuals and spokesmen armed emissaries of that expansion is painted with dyes epic was often shared by representatives of progressive thoughts and those connected to the movement of roots and popular vocation. Urge now build a political horizon of this not recognizing the repetition of the verdict of the inferiority of people who have a different conception of nature, knowledge and life in general. Are present, under the condemnation of miscegenation and the "defense" to the different "coming to remove space", all the ghosts of extermination. Ghosts underlying vessels woven into capillaries of broad strata of society, including the poorest, to emerge as pus when the interests of a political group or evil greed of mainstream media summons. Are those who forget that Abreva Argentinian language also those who, subject, introduced their sounds and shapes to hold, against oppression and infamy, their ways of thinking about nature and the vicissitudes of time.
6) If in any way is the agenda of "order" that the government agrees, as explicitly upholds the principle that life comes before protection of material goods and away to Argentina of any xenophobic country club The support of such warn claims policies that do not fit in our time the remains of land to the peasants, death, repression of claims, lack of protection for victims, inequality before the law or against the application of the law, police or Justice. Nor can it be conceptual walls between the cultures of Aboriginal peoples, native, old and new immigration. The struggle for equality, fraternity and liberty, now at the cultural and human rights, make the characteristic of this time. It is not permissible for a police shooting, emerged from political entanglements and accomplices insensitive, tends to disrupt this course Latin America and the decision not repressive national state. What a contrast comes this crude political behavior of the core defenders of big business, protected by the facade masking the feudal federalism, with pronunciations and accents that let you hear the representatives of the peoples! Is there a message re-founder of the most vital of the powerful historical message that contains the idea of \u200b\u200bfederalism, always at risk of becoming a legitimate democracy and economy reduced exclusion.
transformations, which are needed, they are claiming a political form a coalition capable of embracing new ideas, styles and attitudes. It is not repeated some of the experiences that took refuge in the term "front", with luck or not, but to recognize the active and uneasy coexistence of diverse and heterogeneous one of the most promising of the popular movement today is identified with changes that Argentina is living from the government of Nestor Kirchner. Able to highlight both the diversity and what they have in common who integrate this diversity, the building frontage allows you to name and language to what Kirchner experience comes from long-established traditions and who were found expressed on this experience, from slopes very different political culture in Argentina, as well as thousands in recent years, first opened his eyes to politics and give a new air. To say that this is a new time is to say that although it acknowledges history, this is a time that brings unprecedented components as part of a story that never repeats itself, and challenges for which there are no answers but need look. All new time demands able to name words that had not hitherto existed, and "frontism" is the possibility of finding a concrete political place those words, as well as the vocabularies and styles of young people who have found a world policy that recognized and passion, resulting in questioning of the most egregious ways in which political participation was understood in recent decades in Argentina
necessary diversity
That requires a kind of political practice that is away at a rapid pace of the old tricks of pretending that respects everyone's opinion but primerea with their own to impose on the rest. This is the defining moment of political practice needed to find the place who do not find in the existing structures and to ensure progress: there is a singularity favorable in Argentina's political life these days that has come to light as evidence joyful, and for popular mobilization October reaffirms there a consistent direction. Deaths of various kinds, inequiparables, agree to place at a crossroads to the thousands who identify with the new political era which we live and bet on its extension, the only possibility of preserving what has been achieved. The drama of the cast outside can only be treated, repaired and tried to emancipate the manner appropriate to their national history more disgraceful linkers. Emancipate the nation's history, since this is the time to do it involves new construction policies and renewed sensitivity Argentina democratize society by the very understanding of their complex formative history. Other cuts with a past of injustice have been made. The sharper, no doubt, for the plot of complicity with state terrorism. Also, privatization reversals of expropriations by the nineties. They are acts of national liberation. Some of us expect and we demand. The agrietamento and flaking of the layer of indifference and political indifference that soothed the instituting power of the majority tells us that this is the time to accomplish them. -
National Library, Buenos Aires, December 18, 2010
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