September 27, 2007 (LPAC)--As did former Mexican President, Jose Lopez Portillo; Ecuador's President Raphael Correa has stepped into history to defend human dignity by pointing a finger at the fraud of the so-called "Millennium Development Goals" (MDGs), adopted by consensus in March 2002, as a new cloak for imperial, genocidal, free trade.

Human beings have the right to more than mere subsistence; they have "the right to enjoy a life worthy of being lived," Ecuadorian President Raphael Correa stated vigorously in his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26.

"Mr. President, Your Excellencies: We believe that to have the goal of living on a dollar plus one cent a day, to, supposedly, overcome extreme poverty, or keep from dying prematurely, as could be inferred from the MDGs, does not signify living a dignified life."

Who could oppose preventing the premature deaths of children and mothers? "However, by focusing only on that, we run the risk of resigning ourselves to the idea that human life is simply a process of resistance whose purpose is to extend people's existence a few hours longer," Correa said.

"We propose ... common goals not only for the life's minimums, but for social maximums," Ecuador's President countered, referring to the "minimum" Millennium Challenge goals which have been attached as conditions for international aid since they were put forward in 2002 by the odd couple of mega-speculator George Soros and the United States' own mean-minded idiot, George Bush.

To conform to these "minimums" would be to legitimize today's unacceptable reality, Ecuador's President affirmed. We believe it is possible to secure for all "a job which guarantees the right to earn one's own sustenance, to have time for contemplation, artistic creation and recreation." We fight for "the recognition of the equal dignity of all human beings"--including those forced to migrate in search of a dignified life.

"For the Government of Ecuador, there are no illegal human beings, and the United Nations should insist on this point. There is no such thing as illegal human beings. That is inadmissible!"

Correa proposed that voluntarism can change the world. We refuse to accept that the present is a fate before which we must capitulate, he told the representatives of the nations of the world, in conclusion. We must not be fooled by those who proclaim the "mean and self-complacent worldview" that history has ended. "We hold that it is possible to carry out collective, conscious, and democratic action to direct our lives and organize world society in another way, with a more human face...

"Ecuador wishes to invite you to build that world, that dream."