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It is not possible to underestimate the great deployment of resources of our historic adversaries to derail governments, impose chaos and overthrow democratically elected authorities,&#8221; he warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the opinion of Bolivian Evo Morales, it is necessary to strengthen concertation mechanisms such as the ALBA to stop the &#8220;imperialist attacks&#8221; of the &#8220;growing right&#8221; in Latin America, while Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega &#8211; who decided to speak in the plenary meeting at the last moment after not doing so in the segment reserved for presidents &#8211; accused the United States of not being able to coexist with the norms of international law that condemn the interference in the sovereignty of other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190691\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-190691\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"Official photo of the 16th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) in Havana. From the fifth to the left: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega; Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro; Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel; Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines President Ralph Gonsalves, along with other dignitaries and representatives of governments and states of the regional bloc. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-750x351.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2-1140x534.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xvi-cumbre-de-la-alianza-bolivariana-para-los-pueblos-de-am\u00e9rica-alba-en-la-habana-2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official photo of the 16th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) in Havana. From the fifth to the left: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega; Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro; Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel; Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines President Ralph Gonsalves, along with other dignitaries and representatives of governments and states of the regional bloc. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa \/ EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the face of the rhetoric of solidarity and the &#8220;vivas&#8221; to the ALBA, Venezuelan Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was the one who placed on the table the bloc\u2019s inability to realize an effective economic integration despite its social achievements in the fields of education, health or culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the turn to the right of Brazil and Argentina, two of the largest economies in the region that although they did not belong to the Bolivarian bloc were left-wing allies, Maduro called for financial integration as the &#8220;basis for independence&#8221; in the face of the neo-colonialist and imperialist attacks in a &#8220;region in conflict.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also reiterated, as he did last January, his proposal that the bloc adopt the Petro &#8220;cryptocurrency&#8221; &#8211; created to bypass U.S. sanctions and backed by Venezuelan oil &#8211; &#8220;as the center of its monetary efforts for economic integration.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with the calls to unity, the other constant of the meeting consisted in the mentions to deceased ex-presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, architects of the creation of the ALBA as an alternative to the Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA) promoted by the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the founding countries, the bloc is currently made up by Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Dominica, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Kitts-Nevis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countries grouped in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) commemorated last Friday in Havana the fourteen years of formation of a bloc that faces one of its most complicated moments, in the face of the return to the right that the region is experiencing and the United States\u2019 open hostility. 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