Quito, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) With a call to stop the current destabilization attempts orchestrated by international right against leftist governments in the region, concluded here the 2nd Latin American Progressive Meeting 2015 (ELAP 2015, in Spanish).
The final statement adopted last night by the representatives of over 60 political parties and movements from 30 countries mentions in particular the cases of Ecuador, Brazil, El Salvador and Venezuela, where for several months now, strategies to overthrow the authorities elected at the polls have been implemented.

The document was particularly emphatic in defending the Citizen Revolution, as it is called the political project led by President Rafael Correa since 2007, against any attempt to destabilize intending to take over, from violence or the undemocratic way.

In this regard, the bills introduced by the Ecuadorian president to increase taxes on inheritance and capital gains were supported, as participants in ELAP 2015 promised to raise the discussion on the redistribution of wealth and equity in order to promote greater social justice.

The extensive text approved last night at the closing ceremony celebrates the restoration of relations between Cuba and the United States, while demanding an end to the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by Washington on the island, and the closure of the Guantanamo base, Cuban territory occupied by US troops.

It also welcomes the progress made in the peace agreements in Colombia and urged to support a diplomatic dialogue between Venezuela and Guyana to settle their existing territorial differences.

In this context, participants in the meeting, which included representatives of progressive movements in Europe, Asia and Africa, welcomed the recent efforts by Ecuador, as president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac, in Spanish), and Uruguay, in front Union of South American Nations (Unasur, in Spanish), to end the border conflict between Caracas and Bogotá.

The continental left wing meeting in Quito also stated that it supported the claims of Argentina over the Malvinas Islands, the struggle of the Puerto Rican independence, the Palestinian cause and other nations in conflict, and denounced the impunity surrounding the case of the 43 Mexican students missing in Ayotzinapa.

The text concludes with a request to the United Nations to add to the so called 2015-2030 Agenda, which was recently discussed by world leaders, an objective related to the free movement of people.

Closed by Correa, who called for unity of peoples as the only way to confront the conservative restoration underway in the region, participants reaffirmed their determination to strengthen and consolidate the annual event as a space for debate, reflection and articulation of the left wing of the region and the world.