This is a meeting place for representatives of Latin American, Caribbean and European civil society. Here we are by principle, by convictions, because this is a truly plural, open and participatory space. Now when we are here, when I see so many young people, so many people committed to the most just causes in the world, so many people in solidarity feeding that feeling of solidarity, which is what we have to globalize in the world, I am thinking of Fidel (Applause and exclamations of: "Fidel, Fidel, Fidel!", and of: "I am Fidel! I am Fidel!").Ĭertainly we are very honored to share with you this important Summit of the Peoples. They told me that someone was asking if we were going to confirm our presence at this event, and we asked you: Do you think we would have missed this event? (Exclamations of: “No!”) How could we be in Brussels and not share with you! Sisters and brothers from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe Ĭomrades who fight for social justice (Applause): Now ExxonMobil has its eye on Bolivia’s sizable lithium reserves.Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic of Cuba, at the People's Summit Solidarity Festival, in Brussels, Belgium, on July 17, 2023, “Year 65 of the Revolution”.Īuthor: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúde z | 20, 2023 08:07:29 ExxonMobil was kicked out of Bolivia in 2006 when the Morales government nationalised its energy resources in order to use them to benefit Bolivians instead of enriching US and European multi-nationals. This year it tried to start oil exploration in disputed waters, under the assumption that Venezuela’s socialist government was about to be overthrown by an unsuccessful US-backed military coup.ĮxxonMobil is also a corporate sponsor of regime change proponents in Bolivia the Inter-American Dialogue neoliberal thinktank, of which opposition leader Carlos Mesa is an ‘in-house expert’, received funds from the oil company. This is costing human lives.ĮxxonMobil is also pushing for the US to attack Venezuela, which if successful would allow the company to take control of the world's largest oil reserves. It is responsible for over 3% of all CO2 emissions. While ExxonMobil pollutes the planet at incredible rates, it has pumped millions of dollars into climate change denial and lobbying against action to reduce carbon emissions ($41m per year), putting its profits before our planet. ExxonMobil, the second biggest polluter in history, is attacking Cuba, the country leading the world in sustainable development according to the World Wildlife Fund, United Nations and Global Footprint Network. On Saturday 16 November, Esso stations in Birmingham, Nottingham and Newcastle were blockaded alongside speak-out events in Manchester, Glasgow, Brixton, Holloway and Hounslow.ĮxxonMobil, the US oil and gas giant, is attempting to sue Cuba for $280m over the use of property it claims was stolen from it during the revolution almost 60 years ago. On Wednesday 13 November the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) picketed the Esso garage on Park Lane in London, following earlier successful pickets of Esso over the summer. Our protests joined an international day of solidarity with Cuba proposed by Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and agreed at the Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism on 1-3 November in Havana, Cuba. Not only does ExxonMobil target Cuba, back the brutal coup in Bolivia and back destabilisation in Venezuela, it heavily contributes to climate change and environmental destruction which threatens the future of life on Earth. ExxonMobil (whose European trading name is Esso) is the first to bring lawsuits against Cuban state companies under the newly activated Helms Burton Title III legislation of the US blockade. With a racist coup unleashing bloodshed in Bolivia against the Movement Towards Socialism government and their indigenous supporters, the pickets were broadened to urgently protest against US, EU imperialist interests in Latin America. Pickets of Esso garages took place across England and Scotland as the Revolutionary Communist Group and Rock Around the Blockade took action against the illegal US blockade on Cuba.
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