Saturday, March 22, 2008
60,000 Colombians have emigrated to Ecuador seeking international protection
There are around 60 thousand Colombians in need of international protection displaced to Ecuador's northern provinces, in accordance to the initial results of a survey that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) presented last February to the Government in Quito. The information was published at the UNHCR web site and put down to the organization's spokesperson, Ron Redmon, during the press briefing on March 14th 2008 at the /Palais des Nations/ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The colombian aggression against Ecuador means that Ecuador can no longer put off joining the ALBA economic-military alliance. To delay further would IMO be foolish. But out of this necessary pact, too, the ALBA member countries can pool their resources to help refugee colombians inside both Ecuador and Venezuela join in the economic activity of ALBA, and help give the alliance more of the economic activity it needs -- and colombian refugees a needed -- and safe -- place to rebuild their lives.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, on a not too distant future date, Colombia will be joining ALBA -- and the socialist future of América Latina; and so tens of thousands of socialist colombians, who will by then be already organized inside ALBA, economically and politically will be a big boost to the prospects of union under the future socialist federation of the Americas.
However, we would get none of this future if the present 'socialists' in government in the Americas keep themselves shackled to the bourgeois world order for short-term and parochial considerations, as they too often do even now.