Meeting on the eve of the 2026 centenary of Commander Fidel Castro’s birth and just months shy of the 200th anniversary of the Amphictyonic Congress of Panama, the heads of state and government of ALBA-TCP issued a sweeping Declaration of Caracas Sunday, vowing to deepen the Bolivarian doctrine and resist what they branded Washington’s revived Monroe Doctrine.
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The 21-point communiqué, adopted at the alliance’s 25th virtual summit, condemns the recent U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean as “an act of piracy” and demands:
- An immediate end to all military threats against Our America
- Cuba’s removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism
- Full respect for the 2014 Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
Leaders paid tribute to the Bolivarian leaders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez as founders of the bloc, praised Nicaragua’s “sovereign, Christian and socialist” development path, and saluted the Venezuelan people’s “resilience and courage” in defending their right to self-determination.
Lea aquí la Declaración de la XXV Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del ALBA 📄
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Read here the Declaration 25th Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA
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Looking forward, the alliance approved its 2026 Action Plan, anchored in the Agenda Estratégica 2030:
- Expand AGROALBA and ALBA AZUL for joint food, fisheries and aquaculture production
- Launch a second ALBA cargo ship after the 20,000-ton success of the Manuel Gual vessel
- Create an ALBA Energy & Electricity Mission to help Cuba fully restore its power grid
- Hold the VI ALBA Games, FITALBA tourism fair, and a new AI-focused scholarship program
The bloc will also establish a permanent disaster-response task force, a communal-leadership training circuit and the XII Economic Complementation Council to deepen trade financed by the ALBA Bank.
Invoking Simón Bolívar’s 1820 letter—“Peace shall be my port, my glory, my hope”—the signatories pledged to keep the region free from hegemony and declared:
“Nothing will stop the course of history. Our determination to fight for the dreams of our heroes and for the protection of the region remains intact.”
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