During the twenty-third Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), the president of Bolivia, Luis Arceinvited Palestine to be a “full member” of the organization made up of Latin American countries, most of them dictatorial regimes.
At the meeting, held this Wednesday, April 24, Arce stated that “since its creation in 2004, this alliance has been a ‘beacon of hope’ for the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and it is in this sense that I wish to invoke a firm and determined action by our alliance against the unacceptable genocide that is developing in the Gaza Strip, a product of the aggression of the Israel Defense Forces against the Palestinian people.
“From the plurinational State of Bolivia, we propose that, through the General Secretariat of ALBA, the possibility of forming an international brigade to support the Palestinian people be studied, which would have personnel specialized in disaster response and health professionals.” , said the president, from the event held in the capital of Venezuela.
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Arce also suggested “extending its field of action to education, construction, food production, science and technology” and “offering study scholarships at the undergraduate and graduate levels for Palestinian students.”
The Bolivian recalled that “in October of last year, the ALBA-TCP was one of the first regional blocs that spoke out regarding the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip” and that, in addition, “we made a timely call for dialogue and regarding the resolutions of the United Nations (UN), which we reiterate today in this forum of peace.
“The humanitarian crisis that is being experienced today in Gaza reveals the profound deterioration of the international order and the unacceptable instrumentalization of its institutions,” said the Bolivian president.
ALBA is an organization made up of Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia. This regional integration initiative was founded in 2004 by the former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The organization has been the subject of criticism and controversy, especially in relation to the political and economic situation of some of its members, such as the dictatorial regimes of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba that, According to complaints from human rights organizations, They keep their respective peoples under a repressive climate.
Ortega also supports Palestine
The dictator Daniel Ortega, who also attended the event in person, supported Arce’s position and expressed that the ALBA-TCP has made “calls to end the threats and blockades and, meanwhile, the aggressions and the empire continue to intensify, of “Totally disrespectful of world opinion, of the American people and of Israel that are against these crimes.”
Ortega denounced that “when voting at the UN for Palestine to take its seat as a State, there were two abstentions, which do no harm in the end, but there was one vote that belonged to the United States of America, refusing to recognize the existence of the Palestinian State.
The Nicaraguan dictator said that the United States vote is “accompanied by the approval of billions and billions of dollars to continue the war against the Palestinian people and what they call war, rather, is genocide against the Palestinian people.” .
The dictator indicated that the North American country donated funds “for death and for war” to Taiwan and the “Ukraine regime”, which is in a war with Russia, one of the allies of “commander” Ortega. “They are sums that what they do is inflame the hearts of the people, inflame the hearts of the North American people themselves who are in need and who also have problems in the economic-social order,” he added.
Given this panorama, Ortega compared the ALBA-TCP meeting to “the moment when Sandino met with a group of workers and miners in a mining area, and invited them to fight against the Yankee invaders. Then he asked them how many were willing to do it. 29, 30 raised their hands with him, and there the combat began, there the battle began.
The dictators Ortega and Rosario Murillo seek to project an image to the international community of respect and defense of life, but in Nicaragua the investigation, prosecution and conviction of those responsible for more than 350 murders that occurred during the civic protests of 2018 are still pending. The couple in power is directly credited with ordering their repressive forces to shoot and kill unarmed protesters.
