New York, September 26, 2024 – “The Bolivarian Alliance remains vital for safeguarding peace and keeping the voice of dignity in Latin America and the Caribbean strong and clear,” declared Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke this Thursday during the XXIV Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), held at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

According to the diplomat, new forms of aggression are re-emerging today, “euphemistically called sanctions,” which are essentially the same military interventions and interference carried out by the Yankee empire in the 19th and 20th centuries “against the dignified peoples who fought for independence and self-determination,” he emphasized.

In his address at this meeting, held for the first time within the United Nations, Jaentschke congratulated the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, “who, together with his heroic people, continues to victoriously face all the aggressions and destabilization efforts by the usual imperialists.”

He also expressed solidarity with the Republic of Cuba and called for an end to the blockades and sanctions against the island, as well as against Venezuela and Nicaragua.

“Humanity is at a critical juncture, at the birth of a new history, the emergence of a more just, collective, and solidaristic world order. And as with any birth, the rise of this new multipolar world order without imposed hegemonies is challenging, difficult, and painful… These are times when dignified, free, and sovereign peoples of the world face both old and new forms of aggression; the rifles and gunboats of the past are now reborn in new forms of hostility,” he denounced.