That is why Bolivia is fighting to overcome this crisis and be able to produce and export. We want investment, employment, technology. We want resources. We want to integrate into the world. We want to do that while also preserving something that no economic growth can replace. And that is its people, its territory, and its extraordinary biological diversity. Ladies and gentlemen Bolivia has one specific feature which is also perhaps an opportunity. We are a country with a small population but with vast diversity. The Andes, the Altiplano, the Amazon. We make up 60% of the water that the Amazon receives comes from Bolivia, one of the greatest cultural wealths of the continent and the world, and not just from one culture. Many cultures within a single nation. And we have strategic natural resources, which could be important for the energy and technological transition for the world. Each of the cell phones, the mobile phones that you have here in the room today 10% of the tin that is in those cell phones comes from Bolivian tin. We have the capacity to provide the world with the resources that it needs to be able to develop a better world. Bolivia does not want to repeat the history of countries that exported their natural resources for decades and remained poor. We do not simply want to extract minerals from the earth so that other countries can add value to them. The ideology, and this is very important. I spoke earlier about organized crime and the mafia in Bolivia.

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Mr. president, Brazil does not underestimate the challenge represented by organized crime. We are ready to face the criminal organization that terrorize our local communities. Workers are robbed. Mothers lose their children. Police officers do not make it back home. People are tired of violence. But we will not outsource the responsibility of defending its borders and guaranteeing our population the right to live without fear. We do not need aircraft carriers guarding our waters. We need cooperation to block the flow of weapons and money that feeds crime, organized crime. That's the spirit of the proposal that I personally handed to the US president. We want to fight money laundering carried out by Brazilian criminals abroad. For a long time, Brazilian states acted each in their own way. Crime made the most of the lack of coordination. But this is changing. In Manaus, a city of the Amazon state, we created the Amazon International Police Cooperation Center, bringing together public safety authorities from nine Amazon region countries. In 2025, we carried out the biggest operation against organized crime in Brazil's history. We broke records of drug seizures as well as unlawful assets and resources. We are facing all levels of crime, including the crime tycoons. The anti faction bill that we just have passed establish heavier sentences for organized crime than those carried by terrorism. Organized crime and corruption walk hand in hand. The fight against corruption shall remain relentless, no matter who it hurts. No one is above the law.

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President, I come from a country that is small in size but huge in terms of our nature. The Galápagos Islands, where Darwin found evidence of the evolution of life, are a world heritage site for the whole of humanity, and today they are threatened by illegal fishing networks that operate with the same logic and the same financing of other organized crime groups. The same is happening with illegal mining in the Amazon that's destroying forests and funding gangs. Protecting nature is also a matter of security.

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