We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America, ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations,

Latin America is convinced that, starting with South America, our way forward is to consolidate the process of integration: not theoretical integration - the integration of speeches - but physical integration, with infrastructure, with roads, with railways, with communications, with energy.

Poor countries must give an example of honesty, of ethics, so that we truly deserve the solidarity from millions and millions of people who would like to contribute but sometimes are not sure their money will go where it should go,