In the opening of People’s Summit, in Cochabamba, the Bolivian President strongly condemned the Capitalist system which he considers as the only responsible for our planet's destruction: We respect the Mother Land rights, thus we have the right to determine its causes, the Capitalism is the bridge of all asymmetries in the world and that it condemns more than a million of people to live with less than one dollar per day. The capitalist system commercializes everything, even our water. To continue with the capitalist model is to lead us to the death. We have to produce the balance of the nature and the equality between the human beings. We do not have equilibrium when 1% of the population withholds 50% of the world-wide wealth.

In the presence of 15 000 people, including 70 governments representatives, Presidents, scientists and activists, Evo Morales, urged that the results of this event ought to be respected in the UN Mexico conference, and called for a Universal declaration on the rights of the Mother Land and pushed on the creation of International Climate Justice Tribunal: governments should respect the resolution that will come out from Cochabamba meeting which is the only one that represents the social movements of the whole world.

The developed countries have a very bigger ambition than the one that the world and its limited resources can support. We have to open the borders to the most affected by climatic change – in the next year, 20 to 100 million people will be dislodged. We must, children of the planet, to organize and to mobilize ourselves to defend our Land!, he asked, remembering last years natural catastrophes.

The seventeen workshops will now continue during today and tomorrow. For more information on the People’s summit, click here: http://envivo.cmpcc.org.bo/?lang=es