PANAMA, 10 de abril de 2015.- Unos 300 representantes de las culturas originarias acampan desde este 9 de abril en el gimnasio de la vicerrectoría para asuntos estudiantiles de la Universidad de Panamá para participar de la Cumbre de los Pueblos, especialmente del encuentro con el presidente boliviano que finalmente ha tenido lugar este viernes.

There will Be No Declaration on the Summit of the Americas We have learned that there will be no declaration in the Summit of the Americas because the position of the United States and Canada have affected the consensus of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean who  upheld their positions as to environment, right to free education and the removal of the Executive Order against Venezuela.

Various social organizations joined our continent this Thursday in supporting Cuba’s position in the workshops of the Summit of the Americas’ Civil Society Forum and demanded the expulsion of the group of mercenaries who have been accredited to participate in the event.

Edgardo Voitier, of the Panamanian Frente Amplio por Colón (Broad Front of Colon), read a statement on behalf of Panamanian civil society organizations criticizing the presence of people who “do not believe in prosperity or peace and do not come to contribute, but to provoke.”

Declaration of Principles of the Civil Society Gathered in the Table of Citizen Involvement and Social Actors in the Seventh Summit of the Americas.

A continuación las declaraciones de los participantes en ambas mesas de trabajo:

Mesa Participación Ciudadana

Declaración de principios de la sociedad civil reunida en la Mesa de Participación Ciudadana en el Foro de la Sociedad Civil y Actores Sociales de la 7ma Cumbre de las Américas.

Sala Cristal, Hotel Panamá, Panamá, 9 de Abril de 2015