“From the heart of Rebel, Anti-imperialist and Bolivarian Caracas, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), the president wrote on his Telegram channel.

Maduro said that only two visionaries like Commanders Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro were able to unite their abilities and take the bold step, full of convictions and morals, to tell Latin America and the Caribbean, “We must march, build and unite together, all the forces of a heroic continent that has fought so many feats for centuries, for its definitive liberation.”

Today we recognize the capacity for innovation and creation that the ALBA-TCP has had to ride the different situations, and be at the center of the truth for the peoples’ right to development, democracy, and the construction of each model they choose.

The Venezuelan head of State asserted that together with the governments and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, “we reaffirm that the idea of union of the Liberators, both men and women, beats and lives in our efforts and our struggles.”

The Simon Bolivar Park Convention Center, La Carlota, in Caracas, will host the 14th Summit of Heads of State and Government on Saturday to commemorate the two decades of the founding of the Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc.

All ten member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance will participate in the summit, as well as representatives from Honduras and Palestine as special guests.

The integration mechanism is made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia, and Syria, Haiti and Suriname as special guests.

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