Signing of the TCP: 18 years of cooperation between Peoples and against the Monroe Doctrine

Published at: 29/04/2024 08:21 AM

On April 29, 2006, the Peoples' Trade Agreement (TCP) was signed in Havana, Cuba, an initiative within the framework of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) between Evo Morales, Commander Hugo Chávez and Commander Fidel Castro Ruz.

“The issue of the Peoples' Trade Agreement, like the ALBA, defeated the FTAA, because TCP has to defeat the FTAs and since it is the trade agreement of the peoples, in the face of certain impositions, conditioning of the United States government, it has for sale some orders for some unit that is from my country, to start the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, because we decided, like us, to carry out a proposal for the trade of the peoples, for peoples, a proposal where this trade is fair from town to town without any marginalization,” said the president of Bolivia at the time, Evo Morales.
For his part, Commander Chávez said that “ALBA is an instrument of liberation and of building that platform (...) we are building that platform, against the Monroe project (...) this agreement and treaty, is impossible without the incorporation of our peoples, of the Bolivian people, of the Cuban people, of the Venezuelan people,” he said.

For his part, Commander Castro, as host of the historic event, expressed his satisfaction to see that with these cooperation agreements: “The emergence of these new leaders makes me the happiest man in the world,” he said.

The Peoples' Trade Agreement is an instrument of solidarity and complementary exchange between countries, aimed at benefiting the inhabitants of nations as opposed to what Washington promotes.

Mazo News Team