The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) strongly rejects the decision of the Council of the European Union to extend the illegal and arbitrary unilateral coercive measures against senior officials and institutions of the Nicaraguan State.

This action constitutes an affront to the dignity of a people who, inspired by the legacy of General Augusto C. Sandino, exercise their legitimate right to live in peace and build their own project of social justice, without external interference.

ALBA-TCP reaffirms its unconditional solidarity with the heroic people of Nicaragua, with its Co-Presidents, Commander Daniel Ortega and Comrade Rosario Murillo, as well as with all senior officials who have been unjustly attacked. These measures, an anachronistic expression of colonialism and supremacism, follow the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean and are part of an interventionist agenda that seeks to criminalize and isolate the sovereign governments of Our America.

In the face of this new aggression, ALBA-TCP reaffirms that Nicaragua is not alone and demands the European Union to lift these interventionist measures, which cause serious damage to the well-being of the Nicaraguan people. United in brotherhood, the peoples and governments of our Alliance will continue to defend self-determination, peace, and Latin American and Caribbean integration, convinced that no imperial power will be able to break the spirit that unites us in the struggle for true independence.

Caracas, September 30, 2025