Oscar Andrade’s (Uruguay) speech at UITBB Executive Committee Meeting

Main points of Oscar Andrade’s speech at UITBB Executive Committee Meeting (SUNCA Uruguay)

  • This is a historical epoch, capitalism has never had to deal with so many crises pertaining to economy, food, climate, scarcity of natural resources and so on) and millions of workers work under precarious conditions, and live with less than 2 USD per day
  • Latin America is rich in natural resources (which the capital craves) but the distribution of created wealth is very unfair
  • For the last decade there have been some social advances in Latin America, but now there is repression, with the exception of Mexico, and imperialism is attaching the rights and achievements of the workers
  • Many of those who now fight against governments are socially marginalized people, who have benefited from implemented left-wing policies
  • In Uruguay we will have elections next year, and we have a difficult fight ahead of us. We must remember our values that brought us to victory a decade ago;