You people don't understand what he actually said....
as I am 100% fluent in spanish, and know enough of the language to distinguish linguistics in terms of region (i can tell the difference between original spanish language from Spain, and mexican spanish, guatemalan, venezuelan, cuban, puerto rican, dominican and a couple of other places) here's what was actually said by Hugo Chavez:
Sr. President, sirs, ladies, youre excellencies, and friends,
I promise you, I will not speak more than the man thats talked the longest here this afternoon
Allow me an initial comment that I wanted to make in terms of the previous point being made by the delegations of Brazil, China, India Bolivia.. we were asking for a comment, but it wasnt possible.
The representative from Bolivia, sitting alongside the president Evo Morales said:
the text presented is not democratic, its not inclusive
I was merely walking in, and we were just taking our seats when we heard the president in the previous session, that there was a document coming, but we havent seen any document, I havent seen it, I dont think anybody here knows about any document, Top Secret..
Now, certainly as my Bolivian camarade has stated: its not democratic, its not inclusive.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, is that not precisely the reality of this world? Are we not in a democratic world? Can we expect something democratic, inclusive in the current world wide reality?
What we are living today is a imperial dictatorship. And from this podium, I will continue to call it out. Down with imperial dictatorships and up with the communities, and equality and democracy.
(First round of applause)
This that we see here is a reflection of that, its all exclusion. Theres a group of countries that think of themselves as the superiors than us to the south, to us the third world, us the under developed, or like Eduardo Galeano says the countries that seem like a train has run over them in history. Lets not be surprised, there is no democracy in the world, and here we are once again, in front of powerful evidence of the imperial dictatorship.
Here on stage were two youngsters, the agents of order have been decent, there was a shove or something, they nonetheless collaborated. Out on the streets theres a lot of people, they wont even fit in this room. Ive seen in the news that there have been people detained, protests. Right here, in Copenhagen. I want to acknowledge those people, (applause starts again) the greater part of them young people, young people that are, and rightfully so, concerned about the future of the world. Unlike a lot of us here who have the sun to our backs already. They have the sun before them, and they are worried. One can say that a phantom runs the streets of Copenhagen, paraphrasing Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a phantom runs the streets and that same phantom runs this in room, silent. hes in here, amongst us, he runs the hallways, through everywhere, that phantom is ugly, nobody wants to name it. its called CAPITALISM. Nobody wants to name it, its capitalism. (applause).
Eh?
The people are screaming, the town is roaring. Outside, you can hear it. Some of the signs from the young people. I saw one of the signs on the streets, I saw the signs, outside, and read them. The two most memorable for me I wrote down:
Dont change the climate, change the system
And I take this for us, lets not change the climate, lets change the system. Maybe this way, we can start saving this world.
Capitalism, the uncontrolled destructive development is killing off all life. Its threatening human existence.
The other one called for reflection. It deals with the problem with the banking system that ravaged the world and still hurts it. And the way that rich countries to the north helped all of these bankers out. In the US alone the amount of losses are, incredible, theyve lost count just to save the banks. The sign outside read:
If climate was a bank, it would have already been saved (laughter and applause) And I think its true.
If the climate was a bank, one of the largest, capitalist, the rich governments wouldve already saved it. I think Obama has not arrived yet. He received the Nobel Peace Prize while he sent 30k troops to Afganistan. HE dared show up here, with that medal.
But the US has the Machine to make money
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Yeah, that transcript you guys had was really accurate.
You can cross reference my translation. I shit you not that is what he said. From the 11 minutes of video referred to on the site mentioned in the OP...
I think even the staunchest republican can agree with what Chavez said above
