The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) reflected in a statement on the challenges of the current global geopolitical situation and reaffirmed “its full and strengthened adherence to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.”

The Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc reaffirmed the “unquestionable morality” that has accompanied it for 20 years and took advantage of the occasion of the IX CELAC Summit of Heads of State and Government to reaffirm its commitment to unity.

The ALBA-TCP member countries took advantage of this special occasion to unequivocally raise their voices in defense of the founding premise of this unitary forum for all of Our America: the pursuit of “unity within the diversity.”

The Bolivarian Alliance expressed that during the 21st century, the Latin American and Caribbean region “has been strongly threatened by the irrationality of US hegemony, which today, more than ever, is expressed in the attempt to reconfigure the already outdated dynamics of imperialist control.”

All of this with the aim of continuing to corner the world in the logic of endless war, the plundering of peoples, and even nuclear debacle.

In this regard, it deemed pertinent to “redefine the motives and reorient actions that ensure the paths of unity and peace among the peoples and governments of Our America” ​​in order to jointly overcome the extortionate pretensions and unwarranted blackmail of the diminished and mortally wounded global North.

Likewise, we condemn the criminalization of migrant populations; defend and enhance the identity of our peoples; and neutralize any attempt to impose conflicts fabricated by exogenous interests.

ALBA-TCP, constituted on the principles of cooperation, solidarity, complementarity, respect for national sovereignty, and the self-determination of peoples issued “a clear call to consolidate, peremptorily and without delay, the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

Without, he affirmed, incurring in ideological biases or old power structures, based on the inexorable commitment to preserve the sacred dignity of the free peoples of the region, from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.

Likewise, he reaffirmed in this context his full and reinforced adherence to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, “today invested with revitalized validity and relevance, with the certainty that CELAC must consolidate itself, with diplomatic stature and collective leadership.”

Not only as the mechanism par excellence for political coordination, to ensure the defense of peace, security, and the lives of the peoples of the region prevail, but also “as the vanguard of a unifying process that demands a new meaning in the transition to civilization, as an alternative for the future,” he asserted.

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