The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) was founded “in opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) proposal”, an initiative that emerged at the First Summit of the Americas in 1994 in Miami, USA.
Maduro pointed this out in his report
In a video accompanying the message, Hugo Chávez explained that ALBA was born from a truly new model of integration, “based on new principles of solidarity, reciprocity, respect for the differences in our economies, our societies and the sovereignty of our people. “ .”
ALBA has an ideological component, a political component, a social component and will continue to grow and take concrete shape on this continent. Long live ALBA!, he said.
Maduro noted in the audiovisual broadcast that the Latin American and Caribbean bloc must increasingly demonstrate in practice that it is “an alliance for development, for peace, for equality, for progress”; “It’s an avant-garde alliance,” he explained.
He stressed that we at ALBA are determined to remain at the forefront of the fight for equality and “our union must once again be a union of action to achieve results and provide a better life for our people.” Long live the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America,” he said.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil also recalled the date, writing on the same social network that ALBA-TCP is a space of integration and solidarity between the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean created by Chávez and Fidel (Castro).
“Let us continue to work together for the cooperation and development of our region,” he emphasized.
The alliance expressed in its official
The bloc was created on December 14, 2004 at the suggestion of leaders Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) and, in addition to Cuba and Venezuela, consists of Bolivia, Nicaragua, Antigua and Barbuda as well as Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia.
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