SouthAm Presidents, Peoples in Bolivia Call For South American 'Community'

Cochabamba, Bolivia - Starting on Monday, 2,500 Latin American indigenous people and campesinos will come to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to plead for integration along with the 12 regional heads of state.

The second South American Community of Nations (CSN) Summit and the Social Forum for the Integration of the Peoples will be held collaterally in this city to fulfill its unprecedented ingredient of complementariness.

Maybe for the first time in the history of the Latin American left, instead of protesting the dignitaries, social movements will be reflected in what is called The Great South American Community of Nations to Live Well.

That goal will be the centerpiece of President Evo Morales proposal, which highlights the willingness of the regional peoples to reach a real integration to improve their living conditions.

The text focuses on the need to reach an agreement to turn the South American Community of Nations into a real political, economic, social and cultural bloc.

It also suggests the integration process as a popular movement, wiping out illiteracy, malnutrition and other scourges in the area.

Likewise, Bolivia pleads for a public system that guarantees the population access to health, education and drinking water services besides generating sustainable and productive jobs.

Among other aims, the text calls for legalization and industrialization of the coca leaf, as well as fair trade that benefits all of South America.

The Bolivian initiative proposes energy integration and the creation of a Bank of the South based on 10 percent of the international reserves of the South American states.

Morales devotes a special section to policies dealing with the preservation of the environment and biodiversity and insists on an alternative and sustainable management of the natural resources.

In addition, he champions the recovery of the harmonic coexistence practices of the indigenous peoples with nature.

For CSN organizers, the approval of Morales document is vital to consolidate the bloc.

For its part, the Social Forum will champion for unity through the inclusion of a council of indigenous peoples in the Andean Community of Nations.

It will also strive to include a chapter in the Cochabamba Declaration on the proposals of the Latin American natives.

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