Bogota Colombia
Bolivian President Luis Arce accused the capitalist formula of building a world complete with inequality and “endangering the lives of humanity and the planet” in his speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Arce presented to the UN meeting 14 proposals to move towards a “world with more social justice,” adding the desire to combat drug trafficking and the food crisis.
He said the war “failed” and blamed the United States.
“The war on drugs, basically the one that was unleashed through the United States, has failed, so it is urgent that this country conduct a deep investigation to convert its policy given that it has one of the main consumer countries (of narcotics) in the world,” he said.
Arce also expressed opposition to unilateral sanctions such as those imposed through the United States on Venezuela and Cuba.
“It is in a global scourge due to the crises and the (coronavirus) pandemic that unilateral coercive measures are still being implemented to bend the will of governments at the expense of the hunger and suffering of their peoples,” he told the General Assembly. .
Arce also criticized capitalist countries for investing in war.
“We who while the countries of central capitalism bet gigantic sums of money on war, insignificant contributions are made to integral and sustainable development, to decolonization and depatriarchalization, the eradication of poverty and economic and social inequalities,” he said.
The Bolivian president said that 20 times more monetary resources have been faithful to the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine than they have committed to the Green Climate Fund in a decade, adding that “peace is achieved by buying and promoting weapons, but running together to build and, if necessary, rebuild the economic and productive capacities of all countries. “