Grenadine Confederation
Statement by Bartolomé Calvo, Inspector General of Colombia after the publication of the Treaty of ConstatinopleTrade is the blood and life of a modern nation that develops its territories, this is an undeniable fact. Any restriction to this fundamental ability of a nation to excercise its right to trade freely in an international stage is, above all, a gun pointed at the softest spot of its body: the nation's citizens. Or aren't the ones affected by a choking hold like this the ones who produce most of the grain? However, the Europeans of old, that speak so freely of justice and that have yet again,disrespected the American continent, calmly bring their boats to the blue waters of our Atlantic and Caribbean oceans.
As the United States speaks, in a righetous manner, this is nothing but the profeetering of few for the starvation of many, both in Europe and America for, allow me to remind the few who have chosen this in the Old, anachronic, rotten World of the East: you affect your own nation by restricting the riches and solidarity of the Americas. The forgiveness that we have treated you with, after ruthlessly being imposed your yoke for hundreds of years, is repaid with a clear example of your true intentions, akin to the monopolies you held over our goods, restricting our freedom.
"Stealing our lunch" says the United Kingdom; allow me to retort. Your lunch, the one your citizens so rightly deserve, has been restricted by yourselves by taking these measures against the right to trade freely held by the Union. I do not know what kind of diet the aristocratic, pompous classes of the Old World have taken to shine their crowns and look down at the American continent, priding themselves of being
so slim but the European working man that depends on the cooperation of humanity can't afford such a regime of eating dirt thrown by the rulers, harboring in the safety of their castles."