More
than 4,000 dead in the earthquake in Nepal ... Emergency due to Calbuco volcano
eruption in Chile ... And the ineffective, unsupportive and complicit
International Community
No, it is not with the present lack
of solidarity how these tremendous challenges will be solved, mitigated or
prevented. They urgently require joint
efforts, with a detailed preparation in order to act quickly, effectively...
and timely!
The solution of the terrible and lethal
problem of desperate emigrants, dying of hunger and abandonment... will be not
solved with meetings of the European leaders. It is not preventing them from
entering but facilitating them to live with dignity in their hometowns. This
was considered at the United Nations some decades ago, establishing the great
United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) whose purpose was precisely to promote
endogenous development which would benefit both natives and foreigners. But
international cooperation became exploitation and aid was substituted by loans
granted under draconian conditions. Later, the neoliberalism substituted the United
Nations by groups of the most prosperous countries on earth (G-6, G-7, G-8 ...
G20) and were the "markets" rather than the Nation-States that took
the reins of common destiny in hand.
No, this is not
how we should proceed. It is not what we owe to our brothers who suffer these immense tragedies. It is rebuilding the ethical principles and fully exercising the responsibilities of all worlds’ citizens and
their representatives in governments, refounding a multilateralism
able to act with great determination
and efficiency, that the world could transit through the paths of a
new era.
If a “turning point” is not quickly promoted in current
trends, the social inequalities and shamelessness will not
only increase but the own habitability of the Earth will be harmed with a total intergenerational irresponsibility. It
is this and not another "welfare" that should worry us. We live blinded
by the immediacy and now it is
time to take off for a flight towards the future that our descendents fully deserve.
There are many things that cannot be accepted to continue as "unavoidable".
It cannot be to lack the mechanisms to enable prompt implementation of international law; it cannot
be tolerated the impunity of the traffickers
of all kinds ; it cannot be that less than one hundred people possess a richness higher
than half of humanity; it cannot be that large
economic consortiums are who
decide instead of democratic
governments ...
No, it cannot be that in Nepal
the international assistance should be improvised with admirable and heroic people
who show their solidarity in such
an extent of extraordinary
heroism when, as has been proposed repeatedly, should exist within a refounded United Nations, a global center of
coordination of local and regional institutions specifically
prepared to act on different natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, etc.)
or man-made, so the kind of assistance
and attention is reached, with the modern technology, rapidly and efficiently.
No, it cannot be that when so
many human beings (80% of humanity in a progressive gradient of scarcities) live on minimum
conditions for a decent life, huge
amounts in arms and military expenditures continue to be invested.
I insist on it, because it is an everyday stimulus for me. It is unacceptable that millions of dollars are daily invested on security of the most prosperous when thousands of persons are dying of hunger.
I insist on it, because it is an everyday stimulus for me. It is unacceptable that millions of dollars are daily invested on security of the most prosperous when thousands of persons are dying of hunger.
Ladies and gentlemen representatives of the various European States: reflect and quickly change the current lines of action. Otherwise, it is not foreseeable that the citizens, who can now speak freely, keep distracted and obedient.
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