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Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday that Latin America is more united than ever against the policies that the United States government is intending to impose on the region.
Morales spoke to the press just before departing for Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, where he will participate in the ALBA Summit this Tuesday.
"We are coming together as Latin Americans. UNASUR (the Union of South American Nations) was first in rejecting the threat of interference and intervention, and now the countries of ALBA, and then the CELAC, but also the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, of which we are a part of,” he added, recalling the many expressions of solidarity with Venezuela.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America, or ALBA, was founded in 2004 and is now formed by Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela. Its objective is to promote social, political and economic integration in the region.
Morales and the other ALBA nation leaders will mull over a joint statement in face of President Barack Obama's determination to declare Venezuela a threat to his country's national security that is to be presented at the Summit of the Americas, which will take place April 10 and 11 in Panama.
The United States must modify its actions, otherwise, Morales said, the countries of the region will most certainly defend their sovereignty, according to Prensa Latina.
He explained that Bolivia has emancipated its internal policies and economy, which has permitted the country to improve and grow, while also increasing development.
"We are now better than before, when we were subject to United States' impositions through the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bolivia was a beggar State without no possibility of developing itself. Some former presidents said that Bolivia was dying and they spoke of a failed State,” he added.
In Bolivia, government officials, many members of congress and social movements criticized Obama's position and demanded respect to Venezuela's sovereignty and its democratically-elected president Nicolas Maduro.
On March 10, the Cuban and Bolivian governments slammed the U.S. sanctions against Venezuela as “arbitrary and aggressive.”
“How is Venezuela a threat to the United States? Thousands of kilometers away, without strategic weapons and without the resources … to conspire against the U.S. constitutional order; the (White House) declaration has little credibility,” read a statement published in Cuban newspaper Granma.
Morales added, "We condemn, we repudiate, in the 21st Century we won’t accept this kind of intervention by the United States. All of our solidarity and our support goes to President Maduro, and the revolutionary Bolivarian government and people of Venezuela.”
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