ALBA has been our home, Nicolas Maduro asserts in Havana

 HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 14 (ACN) The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro Moros, said today that the Bolivarian Alternative for the People of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) has undoubtedly been "our space, our home".

Here we are brothers, here there are no powerful people who dominate, blackmail, scold, threaten, with weak people threatened; we are equal, because ALBA is the house of brotherhood, of unity, of big dreams, ratified the Venezuelan president during his speech at the 20th Summit of the organization, being held in Havana.

Maduro Moros stressed that ALBA-TCP shares a geopolitical vision to fight for a world without empires, without neo-colonialism, of free, integrated peoples, without wars of plunder; a world of peace and without threats or use of force.

The Venezuelan leader recalled the beginnings of ALBA 17 years ago, when an alternative to the rapacious and barbaric neoliberalism that tried to colonize our countries with the defunct and forgotten Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty was born.
He pointed out that, since then, ALBA has raised its voice, has made itself respected with the power of ideas, mainly in multilateral spaces.

The organization has also made it possible to bring together professionals, to face crises such as the hurricane in Antigua and Barbuda and the volcano explosion in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Regarding the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Maduro Moros acknowledged the work carried out by Cuba, a country that showed great scientific capacity to create vaccines for the people and the world.

He described as successful the decisions taken a year ago when the region declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19, and together they took measures so that the people of ALBA would not lack medicines and vaccines.

The Venezuelan leader insisted that although coordination must be maintained in the social and political spheres, it is essential to keep it in the major issues of the countries that make up ALBA-TCP.

In this regard, Maduro Moros called for the creation of an Integral Plan for the economic, financial and monetary development of ALBA, in which measures are created to encourage the production of food, goods and services and wealth.

Finally, he denounced the attempts to attack the nations of Bolivia and Nicaragua; and rejected the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, as well as the fierce campaign to destabilize and cause violence in the Caribbean nation.