Mar del Plata, Argentina, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated Friday true Latin American independence would only be achieved through unity.
Nations will only save these lands if they are united, Chavez told reporters in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, host of the 4th Summit of the Americas, with participation of 32 regional heads of states.
The leader of the Bolivarian Revolution is expected to address Friday a mass rally at Mar del Plata's Mundialista Stadium, as part of the closing ceremony of the 3rd Summit of the Peoples.
More than 5,000 participants at the Summit of the Peoples, whose sessions concluded Thursday night with a resounding condemnation of US hegemonic policy, took to the streets early Friday morning in a march to repudiate US President George W. Bush and the Washington-proposed free trade agreement.
Former ace Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona, Bolivian indigenous leader and presidential candidate Evo Morales, Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica, Argentine writer and Deputy Miguel Bonasso joined the march.
Maradona told media that he was opposed to the Bush presence here, and ratified his participation in the activity at the Mundialista Stadium.
The act is considered the highest point of actions by social, union, indigenous and human-rights groups against Bush, who Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel accused of crimes against humanity.
