Uruguayan President calls for Latin America unity

José Mujica, president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay called for cohesion in Latin America and urged countries not to be handled by globalization in order to overcome differences and challenges.

During his visit to Paraguay, one of the member countries of MERCOSUR, Uruguay's president said: "For too long Latin American countries turn their backs. They look much more towards Europe, to other continents. To us to go walking slowly and struggling to build a nation that dreamed of liberators. "

Also in an interview from Paraguay and disclosed by the news the morning of each day, the TV in Uruguay, the Frente Amplio  leader said: "We're stuck with limitations, prejudices, a certain chauvinism that comes back and has many old scores, he said.

"The big challenge that is presented to Latin Americans is how we do, to operate, how we are going to insist that union, organized and united for only find some way," he said.

"We would be subject if we are ignorant people and be free over the guns if we can understand that Latin Americans in the language of science is the language of liberation," said the Uruguayan president, who later said: "Today the homeland is not done with guns. It is with universities, research, systematic and methodical. "

Before nations, he said, were born connected with the ports of the world and have lived almost back to ourselves, but the world is being organized in huge communities, he said.

Referring to the relations between Uruguay and Paraguay, Jose Mujica admitted the historical debt owed by his country with his neighbor and went back to the War of the Triple Alliance ((1864-1870), where we ended up living with spurious servers in a fratricidal war which represented to Paraguay a historical wound may never repaired.

The head of state of Uruguay attended, along with Evo Morales and other leaders of the region, the final day of the IV Americas Social Forum, which met in Asunción for four days to more than 8,000 activists from 25 countries in the region.

During his stay in Paraguay Mujica received the award "National Order of Merit" in a ceremony held in Salon Independencia of the Lopez Palace, headquarter of the government in Asuncion.

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