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>more shockwaves from the Ecuadorian uprising....
>(English translation of the communicado in Spanish))
>
>please spread this communique to indigenous and non-indigenous
>organisations and to the media
>Congreso General Kuna
>
>> From:                "Congreso Kuna" <congresok@hotmail.com>
>> Subject:             comunicado de la nación kuna
>Date sent:             Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:01:50 GMT
>
>Panama, January 25th  2000
>CONGRESO GENERAL KUNA
>WE THE KUNAS THINK AND SAY:
>
>The people of Kuna, who were among the first people of Abia Yala (America),
>demonstrate in these critical hours for both the indigenous and
>non-indigenous peoples, their total solidarity with those who, tired of
>demanding their rights from a fraudulent, militaristic, elitist oligarchy,
>which oligarchy has in fact appropriated the rights and goods that were
>originally property of the Indigenous People, and now of all the People of
>Ecuador; the people of Ecuador have decided to assume, for the new
>millenium, the direction of their own destiny, to which they plainly have
>every right.
>
>In effect, the people of Ecuador and the rest of Abia Yala have long been
>mocked by these elite who have invented, for their own benefit, the rules of
>the imperialistic political games in all our countries, through which the
>different groups take their turns at power, calling this "democracy."  (In
>this manner they can faithfully follow the hereditary colonial line of
>thinking of Europe, which came from the ancient Greek idea, where
>democracy was the rule of an elite oligarchy.) The same groups show their
>fraudulence by bowing to the wishes of the United States of America,
>through the military, to betray the  their country. Because, what is "the
>nation," but the supreme rights and aspirations of the people of that
>nation, in this case, the people of Ecuador, which, through the recent
>government and admittedly ephemeral military and civil system that was run
>by an Indian, carried out the mandate of the majority.
>
>We, the Kuna people, together with the people of Panama, have seen our
>partisan struggles crowned with success: the first, the Proclamation of Tule
>of 1925: we Panamanians have recovered our Canal and all of the adjacent
>areas. We have managed, at last, at the end of the Twentieth Century, to
>achieve our sovreignity over all our territory. We advance with dignity,
>and we understand that we must now make up for lost time, and achieve
>our full liberty, and self-determination. We must establish a system that
>can utilize the talents and abilities of the Panamanian people, and employ
>the riches of our National heritage, without waste or destruction. At this
>point, in order not to be indifferent to our brother and sister peoples, we
>say to the people of Ecuador, in this crucial moment of history: we are with
>you. And we demand of the new authorities of the country:  No more
>repression of the people. We demand furthermore that the well-being of
>their leaders be assured. But most of all, that they must overcome the
>economic and social prostration with which the majority of Ecuador
>struggles, guided by a vision of a future in which all Ecuadorians can come
>together in dignity, for the common welfare, and where all the citizens,
>without exclusion, may participate in the construction of the society. And
>we demand that they that they do not allow outside intervention in their
>internal problems.
>
>We also ask the aid of our government and all of our politcal and social
>sectors, as well as of all the good people of our country, that they demand:
>No more repression of the Ecuadorian people! Assure the safety of their
>leaders, and the freedom of opinion of the citizens! And utter condemnation
>of outside interference in the internal conflicts in Ecuador.
>Panamá, 25 de enero del 2000
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