{"id":88224,"date":"2017-03-13T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=88224"},"modified":"2017-03-06T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:16:23","slug":"alba-summit-begins-honors-hugo-chavezs-revolutionary-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/alba-summit-begins-honors-hugo-chavezs-revolutionary-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBA Summit Begins, Honors Hugo Chavez\u2019s Revolutionary Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere are countries that will never give up thanks to the struggle of Chavez,\u201d Bolivia\u2019s Evo Morales told reporters.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro speaks during an ALBA summit to mark fourth anniversary of the death of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez. | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

RELATED: <\/em><\/strong>Chavez’s Legacy Around the World<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

5 Mar 2017 – <\/em>On the four-year death anniversary of “El Commandante” Chavez, ALBA leaders sung high praises for their former comrade ahead of the 14th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples, also known as ALBA-TCP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are honored to be in this sacred land, (of) Simon Bolivar and Chavez, a land that represents a people that has fought for the independence of our America,” Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega told reporters in Caracas Sunday.<\/p>\n

After Ortega, Cuba\u2019s Raul Castro arrived, along with Bolivia\u2019s Evo Morales, who had been in Cuba for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“We have come to accompany the Venezuelan people and all anti-imperialist people … Every day is a permanent struggle against political and economic aggression, like (those from the) United States. There are countries that will never give up thanks to the struggle of Chavez,\u201d Morales told reporters the same day.<\/p>\n

The summit will take place until March 15 and will feature over 200 international guests.<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/em><\/strong>ALBA’s Vitality Versus the Neoliberal Living Dead<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Venezuelan Culture Minister Adan Chavez specified last week that the events would pay homage to Chavez\u2019s life from 1975 \u2013 when he graduated from military academy \u2013 to 1982, when he and his supporters decided to organize the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chavez himself was the formational leader behind ALBA, along with the late revolutionary leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro. In his quest for South-South solidarity, ALBA was created as an alternative to the neoliberal U.S.-proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, which ultimately was defeated.<\/p>\n

The subregional alliance, based on the solidarity of Latin American and Caribbean nations, includes Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Mar 2017 – On the four-year death anniversary of “El Commandante” Chavez, ALBA leaders sung high praises for their former comrade ahead of the 14th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples, also known as ALBA-TCP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}