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 | | Bolivar was a Quixote, without a doubt, and a Quixote was the man I am especially remembering today, the Abel of Colombia, a martyr, as Simon Bolivar said when he learned of his death in Berruecos. |
 | | Five years ago, in Canada, we stated our position ─both orally and in the minutes that were signed that day-, that all the continent’s presidents minus Fidel Castro signed, our solitary position against the plan to impose FTAA on us by any means in the year 2005, on January 1st, 2005. |
 | | We know why Bolivar convened this conference; we must remember and repeat it: it was not to establish an FTAA; rather, it was to establish an ALBA, to form in South America and the Caribbean a block of nations─ Bolivar stated─, able to negotiate on equal footing with the North, East and West. |
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