The Latin American and Caribbean integration mechanism recalled in a message the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho, on December 9, 1824, which it considered ‘a fundamental moment in the struggle for the independence of South America and marked the end of Spanish colonization in our continent’.

On this day, he stressed in his Telegram account, we pay tribute to the brave patriots who, through their sacrifice and determination, forged a future of freedom and sovereignty for Latin American nations’.

ALBA-TCP executive secretary, Jorge Arreaza, on the same social network affirmed that on that day ‘the Spanish empire bit the dust of defeat in Peru, thanks to a unified army of all South America, under the brilliant command of Antonio José de Sucre and the strategic planning of Liberator Simón Bolívar’.

United we won and we will win,” he said.

On this day in 1824, General Antonio José de Sucre led the troops that defeated the Spanish Army, superior in forces and weapons, in the Pampa de la Quinua, Peru, and marked the definitive defeat of Spanish colonialism in Latin American lands.

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