With the presence of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the opening of the th Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements, "For Socialism: 100 Years Walking with Fidel," took place at the Varona Convention Center of the University of Havana. The assembly will continue until August 8 in the Cuban capital.
Nearly 200 participants, including 150 foreign delegates from the United States, Canada, Spain, China, Burkina Faso, Latin America, and the Caribbean, representing the International Peoples' Assembly, will hold dialogue sessions on regional integration, anti-imperialism, solidarity with Cuba in the face of increasing pressure from the U.S. government, and shared experiences of struggle.
Also participating in the opening of the event were members of the Political Bureau Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party; Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister; Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and other leaders of the Party and Government, youth and mass organizations, and leaders of the Cuban chapter of social movements.
Gerardo González Nordelo, Hero of the Republic of Cuba and National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), delivered the opening remarks, denouncing the oil embargo imposed by the United States and the new imperialist ideological onslaught against the peoples of the Americas.
The theoretical sessions began with the panels: Main Features, Challenges, and Alternatives to the Current Imperialist Offensive on the Global South and Cuba in Today's Regional and Global Context: Challenges and Defense of the Revolution. Discussions also took place on the situation of the Palestinian people and the rise of paramilitarism in Africa.
As part of the event's program, participants will visit the Oncology Hospital and the 10 de Octubre Children's Home, an exchange that will surely demonstrate the resilience of the Cuban people and their institutions amidst a context of economic and political aggression.
ALBA Movements, formally known as the Continental Articulation of Social and Popular Movements, is a platform that unites more than 400 organizations from 25 countries around a project of unity and integration for Our America from an emancipatory perspective, conceived by and for the people.
The platform operates in dialogue and integrative synergies with other networks, platforms, and articulations of continental and global scope. It seeks to launch a popular counteroffensive that represents the full richness and diversity of the struggle to build socialism.
