Moyano: "Workers are coming to power in 2011"

By Carlos Burgueño from Mar del Plata

"Workers have the need to take part in the political field, we have to reach top positions in 2011," Moyano told the press while closing the Latin American unionists' gathering within the framework of the Ibero-American Summit sidelines meetings. His statements were made before the formal meeting featuring heads of states is kicked off.

The CGT Labour Confederation leader spoke to the attendees of a meeting taking place at the Bankers' Association's Arturo Jauretche hall. Among others, Labour Minister Carlos Tomada, CTA head Hugo Yasky and Ibero-American Secretary-General were present. According to Moyano's words, "workers have the need to participate in politics." He rhetorically asked: "Why aren't we able to do it? Just because we did not attend college? That is not the way things are." His comments were highly celebrated by a clapping crowd.

The unionist, who feels like a local in Mar del Plata as it was the city where he started working as a truck driver, assured: "We may not have been trained in college, but we have the skills to know what the workers' needs are." The truck driver concluded: "Our goal is to reach a high position, to fill the post of this country's president. I'm not talking precisely about me, but about my generation, this is what our goal aims at." The leader used Bolivian head of state Evo Morales, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Poland's Llech Walesa to illustrate his ideas.

Translated by Natalia Bocassi