Presidents of Latin America and the Caribbean participated Wednesday in an extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas - Peoples' Trade Agreement- ALBA-TCP. teleSUR
00:00We now begin with the information. As we were saying, the president of Latin America and the Caribbean participated on Wednesday in an extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas and People's Trade Agreement, ALBA-TCP. Let's see more.
00:1713th extraordinaire of ALBA-TCP, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, called for regional unity.
00:23In the heat of the latest threats against the sovereignty and peace of Venezuela, we have made a great call as I ratify the National Union of all Venezuelans
00:36to guarantee Venezuelan peace, with sovereignty, with territorial integrity, with respect for the self-determination of the peoples and of our people,
00:51in particular the union of all Venezuelans and Venezuelans, and I dare from this tribune of something with the permission of you brothers and sisters of Latin America and the Caribbean
01:02to call for the union of all the rebel peoples of all the social movements of Latin America, of the Caribbean, of the United States of Africa, and Maya,
01:19in defense of the right of the Venezuelan people to sovereignty, near to peace, to self-determination, and to their future, their own development.
01:27In this regard, the president of Cuba, Miguel DĂaz-Canel, rejected the United States military deployment in the Caribbean,
01:39which he described as a violation of the sovereignty of Latin American peoples.
01:43The announced prerogative that the United States government intends to grant to its law enforcement agencies to act against criminal organizations within the borders of other states,
01:58constitutes an unacceptable threat of aggression in violation of the sovereignty of nations in the region,
02:04and an additional alteration of the regime of peace and cooperation that the Latin American and Caribbean countries have been striving to ensure
02:13the efforts to guarantee the aforementioned deployment of military naval units to the Southern Caribbean,
02:23under the command of the Southern Command, reportedly involving up to 4,000 troops,
02:29and presented as a dissuasive act under the false and disproportionate argument of combating drug trafficking cartels.
02:36This has been said and is being promoted by the most narcotic state in the world, the United States.
03:02There is no doubt that fascism is stalking us, and the peoples of Latin America must prepare ourselves to resist and defeat.
03:10Bolivia joins the firm voice of ALBA-TCP, to reject, all forms of interference, and to reiterate that Latin America,
03:20and the Caribbean are and must continue to be a zone of peace.
03:23The true security of our peoples is not built with the presence of warships, or the deployment of foreign troops,
03:30but with more integration, more social justice, more democracy, and more sovereignty.
03:37Más democracia y más soberanĂa.
03:39In the same line, the co-president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, reaffirmed that the region must prevail as a zone of peace, overcoming any differences.
03:53Más democracia y más soberanĂa.
04:00They not only attack, destroy, and murder in those regions,
04:08but they also attack and threaten our region, Latin America and the Caribbean.
04:20We have declared a peace zone, that is how we declared it, that is how we decided, and that is how we are moving forward.
04:40In spite of the contradictions that may exist, in spite of the differences that may exist,
05:01in Latin America and the Caribbean, we are marching, we are moving forward, overcoming the aggressions of those who are destroying the people back there in Gaza.
05:24In this context, the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, recalled the legacy of Chávez, precursor of Latin American and Caribbean integration.
05:42I know that Chávez used to say and put his hand like this, and he said Alba is a fist, and it is important to keep that fist clenched, that unity, because that unity means solidarity.
06:00And at the same time, we have to make sure that this fist has strength by improving solidarity, all around it, everywhere.
06:16If we don't do that, we will find that Alba and the member countries, but they will not have impact, that we want them to have beyond the borders of Alba.
06:33In its final declaration, Alba supported the initiative of the president pro-tempore of CELIC, Gustavo Petro, for the region to take a position in defense of peace, unity and security.
06:56We support the call of the president pro-tempore of the community of Latin American and Caribbean states, Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, to an urgent meeting of foreign ministers of the region to establish a joint, dignified and sovereign position in the face of the threats of aggression.
07:26And any interventionist attempt that threatens the peace of Latin America and the Caribbean and any interventionist attempt that threatens the peace of Latin America and the Caribbean, we represent 30% of the governments of CELIC together with other governments.
07:46As Ralph says, as Ralph says, we are supporting the initiative publicly announced by President Gustavo Petro VIII, we reaffirm the freedom and independence one more than two centuries ago, and we proclaim our unwavering decision to defend peace, unity and regional security free from all forms of foreign intervention.
08:06From the Alba summit, it was also announced that a maritime transport fleet will set sail on Thursday, August 21st, to strengthen commercial exchange among the countries of the bloc.
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