After two days of reflection and debate in nine working groups and the participation of representatives from more than 50 countries, the delegates adopted a document urging the construction of a new world order based on justice, independence, and an end to interventionism.

Participants from indigenous peoples, governments, parliaments, unions, youth, cultural, spiritual, and community organizations, and social movements called for forging a globally integrated world, both economically and technologically.

They also called for breaking the blockade through increased production, new trade routes, and alternative currencies and financial systems to the dollar.

They proposed consolidating Caracas as a permanent meeting city for assemblies, missions, legislative agreements, and South-South popular alliances, building a bridge between the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) and the BRICS+ nations.

The text released by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry indicated that the manifesto paid tribute to the resistance of the Cuban people, which has faced for more than six decades US blockades, invasions, and hate campaigns without relinquishing their sovereignty.

It also acknowledged “Fidel Castro’s ethical consistency as a reference for current struggles.”

Addressing the forum on Wednesday, Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez called for raising voices for the peoples of our Latin America and the Caribbean, and gave examples of “the great dignity of Cuba, which has endured decades of resistance to an ignominious, oppressive, and criminal US blockade.”

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