ALBA-TCP: Admitting foreign military bases in Latin America is a threat to peace

Published at: 17/09/2024 09:53 PM

This Tuesday, September 17, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), issued a statement in which it expressed concern about the announcement by the Government of Ecuador to take steps aimed at allowing the establishment of “foreign military bases and installations for military purposes” in its territory.

He warned that admitting foreign military bases “represents a threat to the peace and stability of the entire region, undermining agreements for peaceful coexistence between States.”

Below is the full text of the statement:

The member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) express serious concern about the recent announcement that steps could be taken in the Republic of Ecuador to allow the establishment of “foreign military bases and installations for military purposes”.

Admitting foreign military bases to the territories of countries of Our America represents a threat to the peace and stability of the entire region, undermining agreements for peaceful coexistence between States.

The military bases of the United States in the world and, especially in Our America, serve as powerful and perverse tools to promote foreign interference, facilitating the plunder of natural resources, the control of governments and the management of illegal markets in the countries that host them. Latin America and the Caribbean has been proclaimed a Zone of Peace and the countries of the Alliance strongly support that commitment.

The Bolivarian Alliance has repeatedly denounced the simulated use of the fight against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime as a pretext to open the way for interference in the internal affairs of States, thus endorsing the installation of military bases on the continent with all the associated dangers and risks that this implies.

The member countries of ALBA-TCP trust in the wisdom and conscience of the brotherly Ecuadorian people, son of the libertarian sword of Simon Bolivar, to preserve their sacred sovereignty and independence, protecting the peace and security of Latin America and the Caribbean and fostering relations of friendship and cooperation between the countries of our region and with the rest of the world.

Caracas, September 17, 2024