At the end of the XXIII summit in Caracas, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba) released a declaration in which the member states ratified their “defense of maintaining peace in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
“We ratify – we read in the document – the importance and our commitment in defense of the ‘Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace’ which, 10 years after its approval at a Celac summit in Havana, remains fully in force”.
Therefore, the nations integrating the organization expressed “firm support for the permanent dialogue between Venezuela and Guyana for a satisfactory solution” of the Esequibo territorial dispute.
Likewise, Alba ratified the commitment to defend the sovereignty of the nations of the region “without external interference”, rejecting “the postulates of the Monroe Doctrine which, after 200 years, continues to be used to justify interventionists and destabilizers in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
Finally, “the urgent need to coordinate mechanisms of effective cooperation and solidarity with the people of Haiti” was underlined and a special resolution in support of Palestine was approved.
Founded in 2004 by the then presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, Alba has lost representation over the years, and now has the membership of ten countries: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica , Saint Lucia, Grenada and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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