What Manu spoke about.

16

Feb

2022

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, we have come very close to the two biggest nuclear powers going into open conflict using Europe as their game board. And I speak in the past because the United States and its military arm, NATO, have run out of arguments, but they have never really needed them to start their wars. The United States continues to mount wars far from its territory and many European governments have acte…

15

Feb

2022

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Human rights and democracy in the world – annual report 2021 (continuation of debate)

Madam President, we always welcome the fact that this Parliament is discussing human rights. But you will agree with me that today is not the best day to do so, after the person responsible for a brutal repression against his people, responsible for hundreds of murders of Colombian leaders and social leaders, of hundreds of signatories of the peace agreements, has intervened from this lectern. Yes…

19

Jan

2022

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Violations of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong

Mr President, some groups are again using this Parliament not to improve people's lives, but as an appendix to the United States: a weapon to implement its national security directive, which, in no way hidden, has targeted China and Russia and is pushing for a new version of the Cold War; They do not seem to have digested yet that Hong Kong ceased to be a colony twenty-five years ago and was once …

16

Dec

2021

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The situation in Cuba, namely the cases of José Daniel Ferrer, Lady in White Aymara Nieto, Maykel Castillo, Luis Robles, Félix Navarro, Luis Manuel Otero, Reverend Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, Andy Dunier García and Yunior García Aguilera

Madam President, honourable Member who is the driving force behind this resolution, as good servants of the United States they bring this resolution under the mandate of their boss and as advantaged students of Goebbels, they repeat the same lies a thousand times hoping that they will be considered in truth. There are no arbitrary arrests, torture or disappearances in Cuba. Those who are in prison…

14

Dec

2021

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The situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, we already know the formal reasons for this resolution, but I want to get to the real ones: the promoters of this resolution are upset that Ortega has won the elections and that Nicaragua continues to have a government at the service of the people and not at the service of multinationals; are annoyed by their support for a process of regional integration that is at odds w…

5

Oct

2021

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State of EU cyber defence capabilities (debate)

Madam President, one day we will have to see that our main enemies are within NATO and not outside. I'm telling you because if anyone has jeopardized our democracies with their practices in recent years, that has been the United States. Last time, last June: The NSA, thanks to Denmark, atoned for the German government. It wasn't the first time, but it's okay here. You don't even have to look at NA…

5

Oct

2021

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The situation in Belarus after one year of protests and their violent repression (debate)

Mr President, frankly, it is going to be difficult for me to talk about the human rights situation in Belarus with which there is a conflict on the border with Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. We have three Member States of the European Union blatantly flouting international law and suspending the right to asylum since last summer. They have deployed their armies, declared states of emergency and mad…

16

Sep

2021

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Government crackdown on protests and citizens in Cuba

Madam President, the human rights of the Cuban people have been constantly violated since, more than sixty years ago, the United States imposed a criminal blockade that limits and almost eliminates access to their basic goods. In 1960, President Eisenhower's Secretary of State said that in order to overthrow Castro, the Cuban people had to be suffocated. Obviously, for the promoters of this debate…

14

Sep

2021

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Situation in Afghanistan (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, the United States and NATO have led us to twenty years of war in Afghanistan. Twenty years ending with the Taliban back in power, now armed with the arsenal that Washington and its comparsa have left in their flight. The population is at the mercy of the terror of this group created by the United States in the middle of the Cold War. Women and girls will suffer the mos…

8

Jul

2021

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Hong Kong, notably the case of Apple Daily

Madam President, Commissioner, it is really moving to see the suffering and concern that certain groups in this House express about the closure of a newspaper in China, but it would be more credible if those concerns were not expressed only when the facts happen in countries that the United States has in its target. This resolution, in our view, is a new excuse to pour more gasoline into this new …

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Jul

2021

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Situation in Nicaragua (debate)

Madam President, Mr Borrell, I would sincerely like to believe that this debate stems from a concern about the illegitimate persecution of some governments of the opposition. But I don't think so. I do not believe it because there are reasons that support me not to believe it. In Colombia, not only are opposition leaders being persecuted, they are being killed. And this European Parliament has sai…