Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A message to all Pan Americans…
PANAMERSA historic preamble: There has been social evolution since the beginning of mankind. However, social evolution has not meant social responsibility. The lack of social responsibility equates to inequality. It exists everywhere and the western hemisphere is no exception. It involves identity, purpose … and vision.
Since our discovery by Europeans in 1542, many people have tried to define and earn a single identity for the western hemisphere. Most of these attempts were socially responsible efforts at liberation. In the process of liberating the western hemisphere from the Spanish, English, Portuguese, Dutch and others, smaller regions created their own freedom and self rule. When countries earned this autonomy they thought they had come out ahead, even though their new isolation, economic and political spoils often made them wonder. The new governments learned that the price of liberation had hidden costs such as with other autonomous nations.
Now having finished half a millennium of various New World orders, we find that there is yet another price to be paid. We see that it is impossible for societies, as nations, to grow within our own boundaries at the cost of the growth of others. Concern for others is the final payment each of us must make as we transform our narcissistic cultures into a new social order incorporating timeless moral values with social responsibility and Pan American ideals.
Many men have valiantly tried to establish Pan American Ideals during the past 500 years, but Pan Americanism, as it is evolving today, did not begin until the arrival of Simon Bolivar. While Bolivar and Marti are most responsible for the movement developing today, we must remember other true Pan American centurions such as San Martin, Morazan O’Higgins, Torrijos, to name only a few. All of these centurions were Pan Americans in their personal ideals. All of them contributed to the new Americanism, but none of them had the vision of total western hemisphere Pan Americanism.
The time to build Pan Americanism is here and PANAMERSA is the catalyst. PANAMERSA can imbue the Western Hemisphere with an aura of unity, improve the morale and increase the productivity of its people. Never before has the necessity for cooperation between neighbors been so needed. Never has there been a better time in history to promote the ideology of Pan Americanism.
Pan Americanism is social freedom through integration … “This freedom should not be seen as a metaphysical power of human nature, nor as a right to do whatever one pleases … We do not what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are-that is the fact.
Mission Statement: Pan Americans have, some wittingly and some unwittingly, made tremendous progress towards repositioning ourselves to compete cohesively in the global markets. This is the Key: To achieve economic development trough integration, respect and responsibility. The state of being Pan American is gaining strength trough various organizations and agreements. Now is the time for Pan Americanism to move forward in the 21st century.
PANAMERSA Vision: From deep within the heart of the Western Hemisphere a theory of cooperative genesis is emerging. But it is not only a theory. It is a state of being, called Pan Americanism, a reality. Future historians of economic and social evolution may very well regard the 21st century as the golden age of Pan Americanism. The stepping-stones of Pan American ideals were born in the 19th century with the liberating exploits of Simon Bolivar. His philosophies and actions set the stage for generations to come. But consider what has taken place during the past 100 years. Consider at the dawn of the 20th century communism was only a theory by Karl Marx, Cuba was virtually an extension of the United States, and the technological revolution hadn’t yet created the disparities between the developed countries. Even the most imaginative leaders did not envision nuclear weapons, computers, mass transportation, communication modes, and the superpowers’ childishness towards each other at the time.
During the last 100 years, entrepreneurs and inventors have contributed an impressive array of discoveries to the ever expanding base of human knowledge. Amazingly, however, as these developments financially enhanced the Northern countries exponentially, the struggling countries in the South were subtlety manipulated into providing their natural resources to satisfy the appetites of their gluttonous, “developed” neighbors.
Pan Americanism addresses these issues, political movements and cultural matters. To accomplish this transformation of our society into a socially responsible and caring one, we must all become the leaders in the evolution of values that do not aim to disrupt and divide our culture, but to strengthen and unify it.
The Pan American vision is beginning to build a self-directed society, one that provides empathetic guidance. One that ensures the unfolding of trade barriers to economic growth; not so much for ourselves, but for future generations. This will evolve naturally from our having learned to set healthy limits, not prohibitive one, and to organize these limits collectively into a cultural moral code that each of us might be guided by. If we as individuals act Pan American, our respective nations will follow.
Pan America Sociedad Anonima PANAMERSA is modestly simple to describe. It stands for and promotes Pan Americanism. However, Pan Americanism requires a complex description…
Pan Americanism is of the people, by the people and for the benefit of all Pan American people. It is a doctrine. One that develops teaches and forges a sense of belonging…a state of being.
To accomplish our mission, we developed the Grupo PANAMERSA network in the Western Hemisphere identified as the four regions:
America I, II, III and IV.
Pedro Borges Fiol
Grupo PANAMERSA
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