Caracas, April 18, 2024.- We must continue with the dream of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP),” said Irene León, sociologist and political analyst from Ecuador, during the seminar “Dangers and Threats to Humanity,” held at the Gathering for a World Social Alternative.

In her speech at the Meliá Hotel in Caracas, León said that the Alliance is an indispensable mechanism for strengthening multilateralism, especially in these times “when corporate power seeks to control all economies”.

She warned that the regional alliances of Latin America and the Caribbean should be the wall restraining the new economic geopolitics that seeks to generate an even more aggressive capitalist system: “to sell chaos”.

On the other hand, at the gathering organized by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) and the Simon Bolivar Institute, the Puerto Rican sociologist Ramon Grosfoguel said that the United States has escalated its attack against Latin America in order to completely recover the region’s markets in view of China’s development.

Grosfoguel said that difficult years lie ahead, “because the United States is a wounded tiger, and a wounded beast is capable of doing anything crazy (…) We cannot ignore a scenario like this and we must know how we are going to smartly resist”.

Meanwhile, Rania Khalek, U.S. journalist, also a speaker at the seminar, said that the United States has shortened life expectancy as part of its policy to maintain imperialism.