One Year Later: LAU

It is truly amazing how quickly time can pass.  Only one year ago did the world as we know it completely change.  With the simple pressing of a button, our world and our future shifted to a course that no one was expecting.  What happened to the citizens of the Resistor countries still remains a question which we may never have the answer to.  Who sent the signal and machine is still a mystery.

But we can look beyond these mysteries, and embrace the future we are creating.  We no longer need to rely dirty and finite oil and coal resources to power earth.  Although we are still figuring out how the machine develops its power, we know that it generates enough power to provide electricity to every corner of the earth.  We've made enormous strides in developing the technology of the future.  Now you can go anywhere, and have connection to the digital world.  Through using the Machine's shield effects, we have developed a way to create safe, clean, transportation.  Politically, without the Resistor nations, tensions among nations have disappeared.  People can sleep at night without the fear of being invaded or attacked by another country.

However, there is still much that needs to be accomplished.  Within Latin America, there still exist problems of poverty and inequality.  These were issues of the Old World Order, not the new one.  The same teams I had set up before we originally received the signal are now working on ways to end these problems, hopefully for good.  Nearly half of the world remains empty.  We need to use these land resources to help fix the problems we are facing.
Our economy remains uncertain.  While we have moved past the issues of the 5 Trillion dollars spent building the machine, our markets are being flooded by rogue and pirated products developed by underground markets.  If we want the future to succeed  we need to put an end to this.  Instead of taking these markets out, we instead need to work with the leaders of the markets, and reach agreements to set limits on the production power of these markets.  They can still exist, but not in the fashion that they exist now.
We must also address our lack of support of Africa.  The citizens of Africa stood behind us throughout the process of building and activating the machine, so now we must give them something in return.  I see no issue in building desalination plants to give to the people of Africa.  It may be easier to simply relocate them to un-populated Resistor nations, but that is not what many people of Africa want.  They take pride in their country and land as much as we do, so simply asking them to pack up their bags and move out it out of the picture.  We have the technology and resources to build these desalination plants, so I see nothing holding us back from doing so.

Lastly, I would like to take this moment to remember all the loved ones we lost during The Severing.  Although we might not have agreed with many of the choices of the Resistor Nations, they were still our fellow human beings.  Family members, relatives, friends.  All simply disappeared with the pressing of a button.  I personally lost contact with many friends after that day.  One year later we still mourn the loss of these relations, but we must build a better future with them in mind.  We know that within the Resistor nations there were individuals that probably supported the building of the machine, so we must remember those individuals by creating the future that they wanted to be a part of.

Marcos M Marcos
Executive of the Latin American Union