For centuries, humanity has peered over the edge of one of its many
abysses, in order to listen from the perimeter to the cry of despair,
anguish, or loneliness of thousands of abandoned people. Then time
passes, and the cries of social or political independence which
spontaneous rebels launch as the first sign of liberty arrive on the
pages of the prefabricated history books as if they were something new.
Now, hoarse from so many demands without responses, but confident of
achieving solidarity with all genuine communities, the cry of the
excluded shakes a world in which the free market has not yet managed to
deafen consciences or paralyze wills.

Since a shared mindset is an urgent priority for all those who feel
themselves part of the thankless world of exclusion, the cry of the
excluded proclaims the slogan and the goal of "unity in diversity",
uniting and focusing the interests and necessities of all the components
of culture: as much the noble mixture of races and ethnicities as the
universal urgency which prompts us to discover the point which all the
communities are moving towards or the motive which brings all of people's
day-to-day needs together. Next October 12th, the cry of the excluded
will resonate urgently and energetically in the Hall of the United
Nations. Federico Pagura, Pérez Ezquivel, Rigoberta Menchu, and Fray
Beto will cry out the pain, the lack, and the civic and social deferment
of millions upon millions of Latin Americans, whose voice goes unheard in
all the halls of justice, whose pain does not affect a single power,
whose misery competes day after day with the luxuries of certain wealth,
born from the shameless business of usury. This new cry of humanity also
contains the moral force of the nations affected by their
underdevelopment, a necessary condition for the development of the four
great powers which make history and the world.

The cry of the excluded of Latin America will tear off the social fig
leaf of the great international speculators who maintain hunger and the
hope of debt forgiveness, promising new loans which instantly silence the
old voices of protest and strangle in the cradle those who can only
survive by eating transgenic foods, or by joining the new armies of phony
"liberation", which attack the drug trade, but never confront their own
trade in arms. The motives behind exclusion and the growing number of the
excluded demand ethical attention and a courageous moral position of
rejection on the part of those who do not want to classify ourselves as
volunteers for exclusion. It is time for rebellion, which will succeed
through non-violent action, and will win what weapons cannot attain, what
the drug dealers cannot pay for, and what the usurious moneylenders who
drive the popular indebtedness are accumulating: a dead and deadly weight
upon a living, vibrant, and vital people. To cry out now is a revelation
of life. Excluded Latin America once again proclaims its liberty.