Caracas, April 17, 2024.- This April 18, 19 and 20, Caracas will host the World Gathering for a Social Alternative, an opportunity to promote unity and the design of an agenda to protect the Latin American and Caribbean region against the imperial attacks of this new time.

This event – organized by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) and the Simón Bolívar Institute (ISB) – will bring together member countries of the bloc, leaders and social movements of the region in activities and working meetings to be held at the Meliá Hotel in Caracas.

On Thursday, April 18, the event begins with a cultural presentation and welcoming remarks by the ALBA Executive Secretary, Jorge Arreaza.

Subsequently, there will be seminars on Dangers and Threats to Humanity; Decadent Civilization; One Imperialism, One Enemy; and The Need for a Common Project.

Speakers include intellectuals and social leaders such as Atilio Borón (Argentina), Rania Khalek (USA/Lebanon), Juan Carlos Monedero (Spain), Carlos Rosero (Colombia), Tebogo Phadu (South Africa), Marta Martín (Spain), Abel Prieto (Cuba), Messilene Gorete (Brazil), among others.

On April 19, the gathering will focus on two outstanding debates: The principle of Unity as a changing element, led by the Executive Secretary of the Alliance, Jorge Arreaza; and Hyper-imperialism and a World Social Alternative, led by Vijay Prashad, of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.

On the other hand, members of ALBA-TCP, ISB and leaders of social movements will organize solidarity calls this Friday with Palestine, Cuba, Haiti and Jorge Glass, leader and former vice-president of Ecuador.

Following the agenda, the Seminar of Anti-imperialist Youth in Struggle and for Solidarity will be held on Saturday 20, starting at 9:00 in the morning. The World Gathering for a Social Alternative will be broadcasted on all ALBA-TCP social networks, in line with the Alliance’s vision of fully connecting with the peoples.

Likewise, this debate is fundamental to design strategies to counter the new and dangerous form of intervention by U.S. imperialism in the region, which is intensifying the so-called sanctions against Venezuela and other sister countries in the world.

The ALBA-TCP Executive Secretariat and the Simón Bolívar Institute affirm that the purpose of these sessions is to propose an agenda of concrete actions that the peoples could implement to face imperialism and its unsustainable economic and social model, and thus find common ground that could lead to collective solutions to the real problems of the peoples and to the construction of a new civilizing model.