ALBA meets in Cuba and denounces the “interference” against leftist governments in the region

The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) joined ranks this Wednesday to denounce in Havana the “interference” and “campaigns” to destabilize the leftist governments in the region.

The meeting, which was held for the organization’s 18th anniversary, served as an excuse to express the concern of leaders such as Luis Arce, from Bolivia, Nicolás Maduro, from Venezuela, and Miguel Díaz-Canel, from Cuba, of “harassment” against “candidates” and progressive governments by the US as well as “undemocratic sectors”.

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This summit is held behind closed doors at the Revolution Palace and his schedule is not public. However, its main leaders showed their cards by speaking in front of the Cuban parliament in an extraordinary session that was held before the start of the summit and that was attended by the former Cuban president Raul Castro.

Although not all the leaders mentioned them by first and last name – actually, the only ones who did were Arce and Diaz-Canel– The complaint made this Wednesday at the Palace of Conventions in the island capital was also a tacit support for the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, and the now ex-president of Peru, Pedro Castillo.

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The first was sentenced to six years in prison and life disqualification for fraudulent administration of public funds, and the second was dismissed accused of attempting a failed coup and has a prosecutor’s request for 18 months of preventive detention.

“Foreign interference, political instability, and disrespect for the will of the majority continue to be the main threats that attack the region”Arce warned.

The Bolivian president added that what alarms him the most is “the vile use” of “the powers of the State for political purposes,” alluding to the attempts to dismiss the Peruvian Congress against Castle and the judicial process against Kirchner.

Regarding the former Argentine president, Díaz-Canel added that “imperialism” encourages “politically motivated legal proceedings” against left-wing politicians “such as the one that is taking place against Vice President Cristina Fernández so that we send her a big hug and all our support.”

He stressed that “the oligarchies” are grouped in support of politicians “with fascist-oriented programs to prevent the electoral triumph of the left.”

For his part, Maduro limited himself to speaking about the members of ALBA themselves, who, in his opinion, have endured “conspiracies, attacks, internal and external campaigns.”

ACHIEVE “PRACTICAL PROJECTS”

The president of Venezuela asked the members of the SUNRISE reconcretize their alliance in practical projects, beyond political discourse.

“(ALBA) can have a sense for joint action, and it is what we permanently claim, the need for our space -which was born as an anti-neoliberal, anti-capitalist space- to truly resume the momentum of large projects”, declared the Venezuelan leader, who did not point out any particular initiative.

He also expressed it that way Diaz-Canel, who said that it is necessary to “promote integration”.

The Caribbean island hosted a similar event last May, where Arce proposed creating two transnational companies for the joint production of medicines and food, taking advantage of the “potentials” of the different countries of the alliance.

On that occasion, the member countries of the forum criticized the United States for excluding Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas, which was held days later in Los Angeles.

ALBA currently has ten members: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela; and three special guests (Haiti, Syria and Suriname).

Source: Elcomercio

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