UN General Assembly
2007

same speeches all over again, but also that we are seeing the same conditions of oppression and violence and terror being suffered by humanity. And today, we are more threatened than we were 18 years ago when I last had the opportunity to speak before the United Nations. Today, under the tyranny of global imperialist capitalism, there is an international economic order, of course there is, but who dictates that international economic order? It is dictated by a minority of dictators who impose their interests, the same old interests. They are the ones who enslaved Africans and enslaved and oppressed our indigenous forefathers. They are the ones who wiped out the original peoples of the United States. Then immigrants from Europe came over here and unperturbedly by what right? began to mix with those people, and to become in turn, owners of what did not belong to them. They robbed the original peoples of their rights and their cultures and imposed their culture and the interests of the colonizers. That is what gave rise to what we call today