Venezuela, social organizations debate challenges in Latin America

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Our correspondent Belen de los Santos updates us on the meeting of social organizations at the Casa del ALBA prior to the summit of the organization to be held tomorrow Saturday 14th in Venezuela. teleSUR

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00:00We are going live to Caracas, Venezuela, as our correspondent Belen de los Santos is there

00:04at the Casa del Alba as the social movements of the Alliance are meeting ahead of the summit

00:09tomorrow.

00:10Exactly, Luis, we are here in Caracas, we are at the House of Alba, and as we were saying,

00:20we've been covering these activities in the framework of the 24th Alba Summit that is

00:26underway here in Caracas that will take place on Saturday, but just before there are a lot

00:32of different activities that are happening here, and today in particular there are two

00:37very important activities.

00:40On the one hand, the foreign ministers of the Alba country are gathering here in Caracas

00:46in the Casa Amarilla, that is the foreign ministry of Venezuela, and also here in the

00:52House of Alba, where I am at, the social organizations are gathering, just joining,

00:58and the meeting is about to start at this moment, and the two separate events happening

01:05here just before the 24th Summit of Alba is very important and very significant to really

01:10understand what is happening here in Venezuela today.

01:14Why is this?

01:15Because Alba is 20 years old at this moment, and an important thing to understand is that

01:23since its formation, Alba thought with its founding fathers, that is Fidel and Hugo Chavez,

01:31they have envisioned this idea of a coordination mechanism that not only coordinates the governments,

01:38the states of these countries, but also coordinates the different social organizations, not only

01:45of Alba countries, but also of different countries that integrate the entire region.

01:52So at this moment we are here, the meeting is just about to start, so we are going to

01:56have this short message to bring you the latest.

02:01What is expected here is the mechanisms of integration, probably plans of different areas

02:09of work, such as communication, and also the collaboration with productions from the

02:15different social organizations.

02:17This is a vital key to really understand how Alba is not only just a mechanism, a formal

02:24mechanism among states, but also really an integration of cooperation between the peoples

02:31of the region.

02:32So that is what is happening here today at the House of Alba.

02:35We will come back with more guests, with the different perspectives of the social organizations

02:41that are not only Latin American and the Caribbean, but also from all over the world, bringing

02:47the most important topics to be discussed, of course international integration, of course

02:52the rejection of unilateral measures, the respect to sovereignty, and how international

02:58collaboration can help in that sense, and also some very important geopolitical topics

03:04such as the ongoing genocide in the Middle East, that is always in this sort of things,

03:11a very relevant topic.

03:13So this is starting right now, I will go back to you Luis and bring you more updates throughout

03:18the day.

03:19Thank you, Belen, we will stay tuned for all those updates coming in in the following newsbrief.

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