Venezuela presented on Monday the formal request to become the seat of the 25th Sao Paulo Forum, which will be held next year.
With this request, Venezuela will become for the second time the venue of this event, which brings together social movements and progressive leaders. The first time Caracas hosted the forum was in 2012, when it was led by Commander Hugo Chávez.
The information was announced by the Vice President of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Adán Chávez, during his participation in the session «Need for Unity and Latin American and Caribbean Integration» of the 24th Sao Paulo Forum, which will close this Tuesday.
«We hope the response is positive,» said Chávez, quoted in a press release by the Venezuelan Embassy in Cuba.
During the meeting, the representative of the PSUV pointed out that these plenary sessions allow to strengthen the unity in the continent in the face of the recent attacks of the imperial axes against the progressive countries, as it is the case of Nicaragua – where there has been spots of violence, leaving a balance of more than 242 dead – as well as in the case of Brazil, with the siege against former president Luiz Inácio «Lula» Da Silva.
«Governments and peoples became aware that they should remain united in the face of the voracity of imperialism. The progressive cycle has not stopped. We are still in Revolution», said Chávez, quoted in the note.
It is expected that at the closing ceremony of the Sao Paulo Forum, which began last Sunday, will be paid a tribute to Commander Fidel Castro – who died on November 25, 2016 – and to the speech made by the leader of the Cuban Revolution in the 4th Sao Paulo Forum 25 years ago.
During two days, progressive and left wing delegations from 113 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, discussed the role of the left in the Latin American unity, as well as seek to open the way to a space of criticism and construction of new perspectives with the aim of re-launching the struggle of the sovereign nations before the imperial maneuvers to subdue the region.
In the event, the participants expressed their solidarity with «Lula» Da Silva.
