PHA-Exchange> Fw: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] URGENTE COMMUNICATION FROM ECUADOR

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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:33 PM
Subject: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] URGENTE COMMUNICATION FROM ECUADOR



Cuenca, April 17, 2005


Dear friends around the world,


Warm greetings from the Secretariat of the People's Health Assembly 2.
Hope, happiness, and dreams, the enthusiasm to share, debate and unite our
efforts for a healthy world has burst out in our city of Cuenca and in our
country of Ecuador.

Each day there are more messages, proposals for participation and
contributions to the different activities of the Assembly.  Our energies
have been strengthened by the popular initiatives.  In each province of
Ecuador assemblies are taking place to elect the delegates, to prepare their
participation, and to organize a huge national assembly which will be held
in Guayaquil.

The national crisis, product of the contradictions of different factions of
the oligarchy, is an attempt to control the Supreme Court of Justice and
different organs of the State, with the single and exclusive objective of
protecting their interests and to insure the impunity of corrupt leaders of
the traditional parties.  At the same time, there is the intent to distract
attention of the people from the central problems of the country, to impose
the ratification of the Free Trade Agreements with the United States, to
create new US military bases, and the pass a law that will hand over the oil
fields to large US petroleum companies.

Therefore, the PHA2 surely constitutes a transcendental event full of hope,
happiness and optimism.  We call upon all of you to continue to work with
enthusiasm and decision, to use all your energies to make this huge
planetary meeting an opportunity to celebrate the diversity, the solidarity,
and the energy of the peoples of the world.

The Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Cuenca, the
municipality of Cuenca, and Ecuador await you with open arms and a heart
bursting with hope.

The voices from around the world are calling us, to unite day by day, from
the most isolated corner of the planet, to build the pathway to a healthy
world.

In solidarity,

Arturo Quizphe Peralta
Coordinator of the PHA2.




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