“It is urgent and necessary to reject the coup methods, which are constantly trying to emerge and denounce the use of modern tools of manipulation that seek to stop, frustrate and abort the progressive political processes in Our America,” stressed yesterday the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, while speaking at the 10th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).

The meeting – which virtually gathered representatives of the ten nations that make up this integrationist bloc founded by Fidel and Chávez – was convened to denounce the attempted coup d’état in Bolivia, on June 26, and to reaffirm support to the government of President Luis Arce Catacora.

Díaz-Canel expressed that we cannot allow “the return of the infamous coupist attitudes and actions that sowed such a painful memory in Our America and that seek to reverse the will of the people.”

Accompanied at the Summit by the member of the Political Bureau and Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, he referred to the validity and need to defend with strength and determination the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, approved ten years ago at the Second Celac Summit in Havana.

At the Summit, the Bolivian President denounced the hate speeches that sow fear and uncertainty in his country, the economic sabotage, and the agenda of external interests on important natural resources of the nation such as lithium. He added that it is unpleasant for our States to decide on their natural resources.

He highlighted the profound democratic vocation of his people, who came out and mobilized to defend democracy throughout the country with barricades, rallies and marches. He also thanked the international community for its support in the face of the coup.

Nicolás Maduro Moros, president of Venezuela, said that we are proud of that people, of their courage and strength. “Bolivia has given an example of courage and responsiveness,” he said.

After several Caribbean prime ministers and representatives of the nations of the bloc intervened, Jorge Arreaza, executive secretary of the Alliance, read the Final Declaration, in which they expressed “the categorical rejection of any coup d’état or attempted coup d’état, in whatever form, as it constitutes a threat to democracy, constitutional order, peace and the life of the people.”

The Declaration made explicit the rejection of the position of the Argentine President Javier Milei, who, in spite of all the evidence about the coup, continues with his aggressions to the Government and people of Bolivia.