Ralph Gonsalves: “Latin-Caribbean Integration is Necessary, but it Has Been Discontinuous”

Laura Capote y Leticia Garziglia Interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and President pre tempore of Celac The small island countries of CARICOM have shown their dignity and sovereignty by maintaining firm positions on the US policy of interference against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Exclusive interview with Ralph Gonsalves,…

ALBA-TCP: A Successful Integration Project in Troubled Waters

Gustavo A Maranges The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) finishing up its XXII meeting in Havana today, remains one of the most successful integration projects in Latin America. Regardless of the size of its membership in its 18 years of existence it continues to play an essential…

Returning to the Path of UNASUR: Proposal for a Transition Agenda

Pedro Sassone The UNASUR headquarters in Quito, Ecuador This proposal responds to the call made by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros to “retake UNASUR”, as he stated in declarations to the press; it is also part of the development of a research work on the geopolitical vision of Commander…

ALBA – TCP Stands in Solidarity with Venezuela after Landslides in Las Tejerías

JANNA CORRIDOR After the heavy rains generated by a trough, five streams overflowed in Aragua.  The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty ( ALBA – TCP ) expressed solidarity with the people and the Government of Venezuela, after the landslide occurred during this weekend, due to heavy rains, in the…

ALBA-TCP Summit of the Americas Declaration

Kawsachun News ALBA-TCP Heads of State and Government meet in Havana. May 27, 2022. Photo: Presidencia de Cuba Cuba has once again hosted the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) for their 21st Summit. The main objectives of Friday’s…

Sacha Llorenti: “ALBA is Fundamentally Anti-imperialist”

Peoples Dispatch Camille Chalmers of the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples speaks on a panel during the III Assembly of ALBA Movements. Photo: ALBA Movements During the III Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements, allied platforms spoke about the importance of building unity and fighting imperialism and capitalism together A central discussion throughout the III Continental Assembly…

Amid Global Uncertainty, ALBA Movements Forges Unity and Hope

Zoe AlexandraLaura Capote and Gonzalo Armúa of ALBA Movements Operative Secretary. The continental platform of social movements will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to analyze the current situation and define strategies for the next period. The continental platform, ALBA Movements, will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina from…

ALBA Secretary Rejects NATO Presence in Latin America

Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, spoke to RT en Español’s Jessica Sosa in Caracas on regional integration, U.S. and NATO presence in the region, and Bolivia’s search for justice for the 2019 coup. Llorenti served as Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations under President Evo Morales and sat on the UN Security Council…

Declaration of the XX ALBA-TCP Summit in Commemoration of its XVII Anniversary

Final Declaration of the XX ALBA-TCP Summit Highlights Efforts Towards Real Latin American and Caribbean Integration Yoselina Guevara The XX ALBA-TCP Summit, held in Havana, Cuba, ended yesterday, December 14, with a declaration comprising 44 points. In the final document, it was once again stated that the Alliance is an international organization in which one…

The XX ALBA-TCP Summit: As Real as the Democracy it Defends

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba The virtual Summit convened by the government of the United States on December 9 and 10 last, with pre-recorded speeches by the guests and a totally manipulated agenda, was a demagogical exercise which rendered zero benefits for the international community and failed to make any proposal…

“The Common Sense of Humanity Is On Our Side”: Meet the Plan to Save the Planet

Abdul Rahman A host of research organizations and political platforms, including the International Peoples’ Assembly, have drafted a Plan to Save the Planet which will be submitted to the UN to be adopted as a resolution In the face of a series of global crises, research organizations and political organizations across the world launched the…

The War against Petrocaribe: Examining U.S. Imperial Geopolitics on the Caribbean Spectrum

Misión Verdad Map of the Caribbean (Photo: Archive) Professor Jean-Claude Gerlus, in his research “The Effects of the Cold War on U.S.-Haitian Relationsos “, was correct in pointing out that the Caribbean Basin was transformed into an undeclared war zone during that period. Reminiscences continue to be experienced in the region. A few days ago,…

ALBA: Towards A People’s Climate Conference

Kawsachun News ALBA-TCP Ministers and High-level Authorities on Environment met to coordinate joint actions in the fight against Climate Change. July 7, 2021. Today, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting of Environment Ministers of its member states to plan for a people’s climate summit that will draw up proposals for…

President Daniel Ortega: ‘ALBA-TCP is the Core of the Defense of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples’

“Unity will bury the Organization of American States (OAS). Only then we’ll be able to say: Now we are free and independent!” said Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega in his virtual statement at the 19th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) From Managua, and on the commemoration of…

ALBA-TCP Seals Commitment to Latin American, Caribbean Integration

The Heads of State and Government and Heads of Delegations of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) reiterated their commitment to strengthen the integration and unity of our peoples as the founding ideology of Commanders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro. At the 19th…

Communiqué of the Libyan People’s National Movement to the Peoples of ALBA-TCP

We aspire to rehabilitate our historical relationship and build the bridges of our extension and fraternal contact with our brothers of the same trench in Latin America and the Caribbean. Your Excellencies Heads of States and Governments of ALBA: Warm greetings, While your summit XIX in Caracas, please receive a warm greeting from us, the…

Final Declaration of ALBA-TCP’s 19th Summit for Heads of State & Government: Unity, Fair Vaccine Distribution & Opposition to Illegal Sanctions

The Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, read the Final Declaration of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government, repudiating the aggressive and coercive measures exercised by the United States and Europe, advocating for a fair distribution of vaccines and medical supplies…

ALBA-TCP Revitalizes Fight Against Patriarchy and Imperialism

Kawsachun News Venezuela’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality, Carolys Pérez intervenes in the ALBA-TCP meeting on Women and Gender, accompanied by the Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Daniela Rodríguez on April 7, 2021. “It is not possible to separate the struggle against patriarchy from the struggle against imperialism and the hegemonic policies of domination,”…