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Commemorating 180 years of the Peoples’ Associative
Congress of Panama called by the Liberator, Simón
Bolívar, to finalize and secure our America’s
Independence, the Latin American and Caribbean political
parties gathered in Panama City in support of Puerto
Rico’s Independence, and in harmony with the convocation
for this event hereby
Resolve:
To reiterate to the World our solidarity and
support for the cause of Puerto Rico’s independence, an
historic and principled claim of our America. Latin
America and the Caribbean will not be truly independent
until all its nations are.
To create a Permanent Working Committee for
Puerto Rico’s Independence
to coordinate and implement this Congress’ resolutions.
To establish Solidarity and Support Committees
in each of our nations to educate and create awareness
regarding the need to integrate Puerto Rico, through its
full sovereignty and independence, to the concert of
free nations and thereby promote the best relations
among the nations of this Hemisphere.
To offer to both the Puerto Rican nation as
well as the Government of the United States, our
cooperation and good offices, including the role of
interlocutors and the tasks to lay the groundwork that
may be necessary at the several levels of the Government
of the United States, leading to a Hemispheric dialogue
to resolve Puerto Rico’s colonial problem.
To urge our respective governments that the
Latin American and Caribbean community of nations
promotes, as a region, the General Assembly of the
United Nations Organization’s urgent re-examination of
the case of Puerto Rico in light of new international
and regional conditions.
To espouse by all possible means the cause of
Puerto Rico’s independence.
To support
the liberation of Puerto Rican political prisoners, a
claim already made by the most diverse ideological
sectors of the people of Puerto Rico.
To express to the Puerto Rican Independence
Party our support, solidarity, and recognition, upon its
60th anniversary, for its constant and selfless struggle
for Puerto Rico’s freedom.
Panama City
November 19, 2006
Translated by the
Secretariat for North American Relations of the
Puerto Rican Independence Party.
Unanimously approved by 33 political parties
from 22 nations attending the Congress.
The Committee
was constituted by senator Ricardo Núñez, of
Chile’s Socialist Party; the Hon. Raúl Alfonsín,
former President of Argentina; the Hon. Ricardo
Alarcón, President of the National Assembly of
Cuba; Horacio Serpa, of Colombia’s Liberal
Party; Rolando Araya, President of the
Socialist International for Latin America;
Gustavo Carvajal, Founding President of the
Permanent Conference of Latin American Political
Parties (COPPPAL); senator Hugo Rodríguez
Filippi, of Uruguay’s Socialist Party; Rubén
Giustiniani, President of the Socialist Party of
Argentina; Tomás Borges, of the Sandinista Front
of National Liberation of Nicaragua; Nils
Castro, Secretary for International Affairs of
Panama’s Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD);
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, of Mexico’s Foundation for
Democracy, Alternatives and Debates; senator
Antonio Cafiero, of Argenitna’s Justicialista
Party and President of COPPPAL; and Rubén
Berríos Martínez and Fernando Martín, President
and Executive President, respectively, of the
Puerto Rican Independence Party. Subsequently,
an additional and final member from Brazil’s
Workers Party (PT) will be selected by that
party and join the Committee.
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