ALBA-TCP must show its superiority over any other known mechanism

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), must get to show in practice that it is superior to any other known mechanism.

The information was released by the Head of State, in statements to the press during the celebration of the 22nd ALBA-TCP Summit, held at the Palace of the Cuban Revolution, where he stressed that the entity is at the forefront in the political, cultural, social and economic spheres of Latin America and the Caribbean.

He assured that Commander Hugo Chávez and Commander Fidel Castro, who took the founding step of this integrating entity, demonstrated a great capacity to generate a unitary dynamic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

He exalted that from this integrating work there also happened the birth of PetroCaribe, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and the Union of South American Nations (Unasur): “They were born from a leadership of great regional and global impact: (that of) Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

Similarly, he stressed that the joint declaration expressed full support for the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Arce, for stability, peace and the full exercise of sovereignty and democracy of the Bolivian people.

Likewise, President Maduro declared that the tragedy the Peruvian people are experiencing, the violence, has been evaluated “with great pain.” He also announced that the ALBA-TCP, took a step forward by qualifying the events that occurred in the Republic of Peru against its Constitutional President, Pedro Castillo, as a Coup d’état:

“And consequently, we are going to act in the different instances of Latin America, such as Celac, we are going to talk with the pro-tempore presidency, Alberto Fernández of Argentina, so that he takes the initiative and respects the rights of the people and of Professor Pedro Castillo, in addition, a peaceful, democratic and constitutional channeling is given to the immense crisis that our beloved Peru has suffered”, he mentioned.