Opening the 25th virtual summit of ALBA-TCP, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hailed the bloc’s 2025 record as proof that “ALBA is the greatest project of union and emancipation in this era of magnificent challenges,” while urging members to accelerate joint production in energy, food and health for a “perpetually peaceful” Latin America and Caribbean.

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Maduro revealed that the first ALBA cargo vessel has already moved 20,000 tons of solidarity-trade goods across the region, a pilot for the future “ALBA Commercial Fleet” designed to break dependency on foreign shipping.

He called for a full revival of Petrocaribe, with shared investment “from the oil well to petro-chemistry,” and announced ready-to-launch plans to boost output of rice, corn and potatoes through the AgroALBA platform.

“The logistics, legal framework and scientific vision are in place—let’s form productive brigades and get to work,” he told heads of state, insisting food sovereignty is the next frontier.

On health, the Venezuelan leader pledged to relaunch Cuba-Venezuela medical missions originated by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, describing them as “an army of white coats giving loving, solidarity-based care to the peoples of the South.”

The summit is set to adopt a declaration condemning all breaches of international law and reaffirming the 2014 Havana Declaration that proclaims the region a Zone of Peace—the political shield, Maduro said, that will allow ALBA to keep “living by doing and saying by saying” in 2026 and beyond.

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