Foreign Minister Yván Gil reiterates Venezuela's support for the Constitutional Government of Luis Arce in Bolivia

Published at: 11/07/2024 11:54 AM

During the X Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), which was held via videoconference on July 10, the Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, reiterated the support of the Venezuelan People to the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Arce, regarding the coup attempt on June 26.

From his office in Caracas, accompanied by the Deputy Ministers for Latin America and the Caribbean, Rander Peña and Raúl Li Causi, respectively, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister ratified President Nicolás Maduro's line of “strengthening the integration of ALBA-TCP for the benefit of the well-being of our peoples in the face of the growing fascist threat.”
The national president assured that the coup d'etat in sister Bolivia was part of the “permanent conspiracy against autonomous and sovereign processes in the region”, especially the nations of the Global South that are opposed to the imposition of a rules-based world order.

“They do not cease in their efforts to harm free peoples,” said Maduro, referring to the fact that Venezuela is proud of the Bolivian people, who with courage and strength took to the streets to defend their sovereignty and defeat imperial pretensions.

President Arce thanked the heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP for their solidarity and invited them to support the block's declaration in favor of democracy and in rejection of any threat of destabilization, aimed at breaking the constitutional order, fracturing social peace and threatening the lives of the people.

“The right wing and conservative nationalism seek to impose the matrix that it was not a coup, it was a self-coup,” the Bolivian president denounced, while stressing the importance of “recovering the democratic values of the rule of law and rejecting the fundamentalisms and caudillisms that divide us,” he said.

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