Grenadine Confederation
Statement by President Mariano OspinaWe stand at the light in the end of the tunnel; it is not a mirage but the reality we wanted to reach. However, as the Paradise found in the West seems to have fallen under the reign of man once again, it has become flawed. There is much work to do in this land, nevertheless, let it not be a detriment to our ambitions for harmony; it is only a goal to achieve among many in the future. We have slaughtered each other, brothers and sisters under one God and one country, for a meaningless task whereupon a dictator would have taken place, erasing the autonomy he held as a flag for his cruel war.
If someone would have asked me, a year ago, whether I stood with fear at the position I found myself in, I would have replied without hesitation, that I was. Terror overcame me as I imagined the soldiers being led to their deaths, all of them Colombian in blood but acting upon the whims of a single person. Like insects drawn by the smell of a flower, led into the most grizzly storm of hail man may encounter; a massacre. This was the case with Victoria, which hasn't lived up to her name, nor has she lived up to her country in her final days. We can only wish to her and the United Kingdom peace as they recover from a blow to their unity, even at this very moment, praising young Edward's reasoning skills as he has taken his people out of one danger but they are thrown into another; nevertheless, this new fellow republic must stand for what ideals its people have expressed by rejecting the dark side of monarchic power and, in that manner, we wish him, and Britain's government, luck in their journey.
And to the other European powers who have taken the same decisions, we thank you for respecting the great lands and prairies of the West, who had once rejected their unfitting models because of natural diferences between men. Likewise, I must respect Brazil's restraint and patience, as they have fulfilled their peacekeeping role by avoiding any hostile actions against any nation.
To the Argentine Confederation goes our sympathy, for we have also reunified the peoples that fall under the veil of one nation, avoiding the fake sovereignty taken by spilled blood; that of Federalists that seeked to bring disgrace upon each of their respective provinces by splitting apart. We, in South America, are struggling nations that need to stand together as we face the horizon and what's beyond it, the last thing we need is people starving over a fervent ideology of difference, instilled by repressive, power-hungry men, who seek to reign their own kingdoms with a fist of iron falling upon their subjects, not caring for the shared nature of man.
And that battle against the violent and force reign over men is being fought by the Union, brothers at the North. Their recent advances, that have been reported in waves across the world of the free, show that they equate us within their nation; they are nothing but warriors for justice for all men and women on the face of Earth. Liberty is the essence of development in this world, emancipation of all is the answer! We applaud every nation who has recognized the essence, the fire raging inside each of us to achieve happiness! We, ourselves, have tried and will keep trying, to grasp it form Death's skeletal, rotting hand while shouting for the men slain on the battlefield, as we rise to Heaven in a final, triumphal act of liberty! We will never stop, nor will liberty be held back! We need to take this fight to the men who deal with the suffering of their fellow man, as an object, as a good to be traded away and to be disposed as soon as man's roaring soul has been shackled and it has withered away!
As such, I call for you, men of the Grenadine Confederation, to join this fight of liberty; a war that every single person has fought, some arguing they have the right to take other's liberties as they protect their own. We offer, our brothers of Colombia, to join upon a quest to achieve this objective. We are, now, opening spots for those who wish to taste the process that will turn this Earth, soiled by man, destroyed by man, shackled by man, into one that we imagined as the light in the end of the tunnel. Those who wish to be shipped further North to turn this world around, piece by piece, may do so. The Colombian Expeditionary Corps are at your service, America. Not again will we fall to the will of a few who put weights upon our shoulders to avoid us from rising, nor will we allow anyone to suffer from this shame as long as we live.
Long live Emancipation!