Peoples' Dialogue - Social Movements & Alternatives

Evo Morales's letter to the Presidents and People of South America on Latin America regional integration

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:17:41 -0200

Proposal from President Evo Morales
LET'S CONSTRUCT WITH OUR PEOPLE A REAL SOUTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF NATIONS IN ORDER TO LIVE WELL

October 2, 2006

Fellow Presidents and People of South America,

In Cusco, December 2004, the presidents of South America took up the commitment of developing a "South American space, integrated in political, social, economic, environmental and infrastructural spheres" and affirmed that "South American integration is and has to be an integration of the peoples". In the Declaration of Ayacucho they declared that the principles of freedom, equality, solidarity, social justice, tolerance, respect for the environment, are the fundamental pillars for this community to achieve an economically and socially sustainable development "that takes into account the urgent necessities of the most poorest, as well as the special requirements of the small and vulnerable economies of South America".

Declaration: Caribbean civil society organizations on (EPAs)

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:41:06 -0200

FINAL DECLARATION OF CARIBBEAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS REGARDING ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPS AGREEMENTS (EPAs) BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES.

Santo Domingo, September 21st, 2006

Preamble: Organizations of small agricultural producers, women, business leaders, academic institutions, youth, national and international NGO´s from the Caribbean region gathered in Santo Domingo for the Fifth round of EPA negotiations declare the following:

Social Summit for the Integration of the Peoples - Bolivia, December 2006

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:28:11 -0300

CALL TO SUMMIT FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE PEOPLES

Announcement Social Summit for the Integration of the Peoples

December 2006. Bolivia

The Hemispheric Social Alliance (Alianza Social Continental) and the Bolivian Movement for the Sovereignty, Integration and Solidarity of the Peoples (Movimiento Boliviano por la Soberanía e Integración Solidaria de los Pueblos) are organizing the Social Summit for the Integration of the Peoples, which will occur in parallel to the meeting of Presidents of the South American Community of Nations (Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones), scheduled for the second week of December 2006 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

ALBA vs ALCA: ¿Yankee go home?

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:01:49 -0300

ALBA vs ALCA: ¿Yankee go home?

Agencia de Información Solidaria – 04/05/2006

Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales y Fidel Castro han sellado recientemente una alianza hemisférica en La Habana, para formalizar el lanzamiento de la Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas (ALBA) proyecto diseñado por el presidente venezolano Chávez para afianzar una integración latinoamericana “libre de los designios imperialistas estadounidenses y del capitalismo neoliberal”. El tratado se denomina también la Alternativa Bolivariana de los Pueblos.

ALBA: Social Debt and Human Rights

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:34:32 -0300

ALBA: Social Debt and Human Rights
Proposals for the New Social, Economic and Cultural Order

by James Petras
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 17, 2006

Introduction

ALBA: Deuda Social y Derechos Humanos

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:24:59 -0300

ALBA: Deuda Social y Derechos Humanos
Propuestas para el Nuevo Orden Social, Económico y Cultural

James Petras, Rebelión 21-05-2006
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Sinfo Fernández

The Republic of Bolivia joins ALBA

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:26:39 -0300

THE REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA JOINS AND SIGNS THE JOINT DECLARATION SIGNED IN HAVANA ON DECEMBER 14, 2004 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.

Recognizing that

the implementation of neo-liberal plans and policies has led to the proliferation and deepening of dependence, poverty, the pillage of our natural resources and a state of social inequality within our region,

A people's trade agreement

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:19:12 -0300

Resistance to neo-liberalism takes off in Latin America, writes Faiza Rady
AL-AHRAM Weekly, 4 - 10 May 2006, Issue No. 793

"Now, for the first time, there are three of us. I believe that one day all countries can be here," said Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana on 29 April. "This is the happiest day of my life," he said after signing the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas Implementation Agreement (ALBA) and the People's Trade Agreement (TPC) with Venezuelan President Hugo Chàvez and his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales.

What is ALBA?

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:03:44 -0300

What is ALBA?

"It is necessary to advance towards the stability of the Continent:
in politics, in economic, and in social matters,
This model, EL ALBA, aims towards the stability.
and quoting Jesus Christ words:
“The only way to Peace, is Justice;
the brotherhood, the equality...
There will be no Peace, while there is not Justice in the world”
"Hugo Chávez Frías

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) is based, fundamentally, upon a model of politic, economic and social integration of countries, as the Caribbean and Latin American, which share geographic spaces, historical and cultural bonds, necessities and common potentialities.

Energy Cooperation Agreement PETROCARIBE

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:23:04 -0300

ENERGY COOPERATION AGREEMENT PETROCARIBE

We, the Heads of State and / or Government, gathered in the City of Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, within the framework of the Energy Meeting for the creation of PETROCARIBE:

1. WELCOME the initiative of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the creation of PETROCARIBE, the fundamental objective of which is to contribute to the energy security, the social and economic development and the integration of the Countries of the Caribbean through the sovereign use of energy resources based entirely on the principles for integration referred to as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA);

What is the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean?

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:25:00 -0300

By: Venezuelan Bank of External Commerce (Bancoex)

The Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA) is a proposal for a different integration. While the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) responds to the interests of transnational capital and pursues the absolute liberalization of trade in goods and services and investments, ALBA places the emphasis on the fight against the poverty and against social exclusion; it thus expresses the interests of the Latin American people.

ALBA: Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:14:37 -0300

ALBA: Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean

by Teresa Arreaza; www.venezuelanalyisis.com; February 13, 2005

The ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas), as its Spanish initials indicate, is a proposed alternative to the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA, ALCA in its Spanish initials), differing from the latter in that it advocates a socially-oriented trade block rather than one strictly based on the logic of deregulated profit maximization. ALBA appeals to the egalitarian principles of justice and equality that are innate in human beings, the well-being of the most dispossessed sectors of society, and a reinvigorated sense of solidarity toward the underdeveloped countries of the western hemisphere, so that with the required assistance, they can enter into trade negotiations on more favorable terms than has been the case under the dictates of developed countries.

Breaking Imperial Ties: Venezuela and ALBA

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:23:59 -0300

Breaking Imperial Ties: Venezuela and ALBA

By: Tim Anderson - Green Left Weekly

In late 2005, while war raged in the Middle East and oil prices rose drastically, governments and oil companies repeated the “market forces” mantra, saying there was nothing they could do about oil prices. However, the Venezuelan government-owned US-based petrol distribution company Citgo (with eight refineries and 14,000 petrol stations across the US) decided to discount up to 10% of its US sales, so that poor families in cold-weather US states could have access to heating oil over the northern winter. Citgo sold over 40 million gallons of oil to 150,000 poor US households at a 40% discount.

This created a reaction. The Republican chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Texan Joe Barton, wants Citgo examined for possible breaches of anti-trust law. Michael Heath, of the Christian Civic League, claimed Venezuela’s left-wing President Hugo Chavez is “a brutal Marxist dictator ... [who is] trying to split our nation”, and the American Family Association has launched a boycott of Citgo because it believes Chavez “has vowed to bring down our government”.

Agreement for a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) between Cuba and Venezuela

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:16:29 -0300

Final Declaration from the First Cuba-Venezuela Meeting for the Application of the ALBA

By: Venezuelan and Cuban delegations

The delegations of Cuba and Venezuela meeting in Havana, Cuba on April 27 and 28, 2005, and inspired by the historical Joint Statement and the Agreement for a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), signed by Hugo Chávez Frías, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and President Fidel Castro Ruz, president of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba, have drawn up and approved a Strategic Plan for the application of ALBA, in accordance with the Article 3 of the above-mentioned agreement.

Agreement for the application of ALBA and the Trade Treaty of the People

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:24:53 -0300

JOINT COMMUNIQUE

On the occasion of the official visit to Cuba of presidents Hugo Chavéz Frías and Evo Morales Ayma on April 28 and 29, 2006, there was a broad-ranging dialogue with the President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, celebrating the first anniversary of the agreements launching the implementation of ALBA, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, which is bolstered by the proposed Peoples’ Trade Agreements (TCP, by its acronym in Spanish). This dialogue included the analysis of the current international situation and, particularly, the challenges facing the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the present political, economic and social circumstances marked by an increase of the popular struggles against the failed neo-liberal policy and the search for new ways and means toward development with social justice in the framework of genuine fraternal Latin American and Caribbean integration.