Socialist ideas spring up again in Latin America

“What occurs today is that new winds blow in Latin America and old ideas considered buried are springing up, Bolivar's ideal, for instance, and socialism ideals spring up again with the strength of hurricanes in these lands,” expressed the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.

From Brazil, before taking part on the second day of the Summit of Latin American and the Caribbean on Integration and Development, Venezuela's President expressed that “The ideas of socialism spring up again with the strength of hurricanes in these lands, the idea of socialism that was thought to be buried, socialism has not dead, it is stronger than never before, the only one dying is capitalism.”

Therefore, he also remarked that “Bolivar's ideal, for example, today December 17, the day of his physical death, we remind the idea of a free and united Latin America, and for that reason we should devote this day and we devote it to Bolivar, Simon Bolivar, the Liberator, the father of our America.”

For that matter, Chávez added that in this moment “we have to find alternatives and this meeting is seeking for alternatives, that is the most positive aspect it has.”

“As I said yesterday (Tuesday), we are proving many things; first that the United States does not rule here in Latin America anymore, and that it is coming true what San Martin said, let us be free, nothing else matters,” Chávez commented.

Furthermore, President Chávez also said that it is important to retake Bolivar's words, the only way to have a homeland is to join together in a great homeland.

“Today, there is a set of leaderships of leading countries, leading men, leading women, leading nations, there is a new Latin America today,” Venezuela's President expressed.