Member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) agreed to consolidate their integration and sovereignty in order to build socialism.

As a coda of the Ninth Summit of the bloc founded in 2004, held in Caracas, the Heads of State and Government of Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela ratified these objectives through the document entitled "Manifiesto de Caracas Consolidando la Nueva Independencia”.

According to the statement of the forum, ALBA efforts are motivated by the struggle for independence started 200 years ago, and by the will and the legacy of their national heroes.

Throughout the text, the leaders considered that of the goals going to achieve full justice and freedom from foreign intervention and the submission to imperial governments.

They also decided to continue promoting the defense of human rights, the environment and the creation of an independent, developed and socialist economy with the Sucre (payment instrument), the grannational enterprises and the Bank of ALBA, among other initiatives.

The document reflects the desire to establish the ALBA countries as a place of equality, social welfare and poverty alleviation.

In order to capitalize such an ambitious social project, the eight nations agreed to strengthen health programs, education and care for the disabled people.

In the Manifesto of Caracas was a clear the need to encourage governments since the articulation of social movements and the installation of the Council of Social Movements, following the establishment of national chapters in each country.

The joint statement calls for concerted action policies to expose the hypocrisy and double standards in international relations shown by the United States and some European nations.

The Manifesto set the call to the ALBA-TCP Summit with native and afro descendent authorities is scheduled by June 3 and 4 in Imbabura, Ecuador.

They also stressed the decision to establish the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and offered their support to Venezuela in 2011 to host a summit to be succeeded.

(With information from Prensa Latina)

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