Chavez: ALBA Stronger than
Ever
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
affirmed on Sunday that the Bolivarian
Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
(ALBA) is stronger and more united than
ever.
In his regular Sunday column "Las lineas de
Chavez," he said the most important task of
the ALBA member countries is to call up all
popular groups in the construction of a new
unitary architecture, respecting cultural
diversity.
"As I said in Otavalo (Ecuadorian city that
recently hosted the ALBA Summit) ALBA is the
vanguard of the big homeland," Chavez
affirmed.
"This battle for our socialism calls to
relentlessly fight colonialism as structure
and system of foreign domination, a
permanent fight against internal colonialism
that dominates, exploits, oppresses, and
discriminates based on racial and ethnic
criteria," the president noted.
During the ALBA Summit June 24-25 in
Ecuador, presidents along with indigenous
leaders and Afro-descendants discussed such
issues as economic, political, and social
rights against racism, initiatives to face
climate change, and foreign trade among
peoples.
The bloc is made up of Antigua and Barbuda,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Cuba,
Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador, and
Dominica.
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