The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, through social movements and the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples (ISB), is actively participating in the construction of former Bolivian President Evo Morales’ initiative to create the People’s Unasur, or RUNASUR, a platform for the articulation of South American popular movements to promote regional integration.
Representatives of Venezuelan social movements and the ISB President and Vice-president, Carlos Ron y Lídice Altuve, held on Friday a new virtual RUNASUR Informative Meeting to make contributions to the definitive creation of this platform, an idea conceived at the First Meeting of Abya-Yala Peoples and Organizations towards the Construction of a Plurinational America, held in December 2020 in Bolivia.
This movement’s aim is to become a wider space for the participation of different social movements in our region, a space to defend popular projects in Latin America regardless of their governments (…) and be able to put up resistance,” said Ron.
The ISB vice-president pointed out that RUNASUR is a “body for the integration of the South American people (…) against capitalism, colonialism. It is an antipatriarchal, antiimperialist space.”
Altuve highlighted the active incorporation of Venezuela by drafting a programmatic agenda of “the guidelines, principles and forms of organization” of this integration initiative.
She said this political mechanism will be formed by South American social movements, which are called to participate at the in-person meeting of the RUNASUR Promoting Technical Commission, comprised by representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
“This is the time for the peoples, and Bolívar’s and Chávez’s people are joining them,” stressed Altuve after the virtual meeting, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs.