Havana, Cuba.- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas-People”s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) has maintained its vitality, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday.

We have just held the 16th ALBA-TCP Summit in Havana, where the strength and coherence of the regional organization was shown; Rodriguez told the press prior to the Ordinary Session of the 9th Legislature of the People’s Power National Assembly.

The Monroe Doctrine is being tried to be implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the midst of a political balance change in the region, said the minister at Havana’s Convention Center.

The summit was held in Havana last Friday and in the final declaration, made public by the Cuban foreign minister, participants condemned the aggressive actions by the United States against Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries. They also expressed their solidarity with the emblematic Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a political prisoner in his own country.

Among other issues, the document expressed the ALBA-TCP’s support for the Bolivian Government and people in their struggle for an access to the sea with sovereignty, and the signatories called on Chile to resume talks with its neighbor.