Venezuela and Bolivia, Latin American Strategic Alliance

Caracas-. Venezuela and Bolivia here agreed to contribute to the integration of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is what most countries in the region aspire to today, in a complex and diverse context.

Presidents Nicolás Maduro and Luis Arce, respectively, advanced yesterday in this direction with the signing of 13 cooperation agreements in strategic sectors by foreign ministers, ministers and company directors, some of which are regional powers.

Among the memorandums of understanding signed are the return of cultural heritage assets; education and cooperation in the fields of justice, academia, gas and oil; health training; Mining. commerce; and commercial promotion.

It also included an agreement between the agencies Venezuela de Noticias and Bolivia de Informacion; In air services and reliability of information between gas companies.

The Venezuelan president estimated that the two days of celebrating the third Joint Integration Commission constitute a “delicate step” to resume the course of building a strong comprehensive relationship between governments, countries and peoples.

He considered the agreements signed in the field of oil, gas and petrochemicals a strategy to unite companies in these important areas, and thus prompted the proposal that we presented to Latin America and the Caribbean to ensure energy security for oil and gas. “.

As well as the absolute security of the petrochemical industry, which guarantees products, fertilizers and everything that the economies of the region need.

Maduro expressed his admiration for the progress made by the Bolivian gas industry in recent years, as well as its position as a producer and supplier of gas for the “energy equation” of South America.

He said that the Bolivarian Republic had ratified the eighth gas reserves in the world and declared that recent studies and explorations gave “good news” that his country could ratify the third or fourth reserves in the planet, which, he said, gives dimension to the strategic alliance between the two countries.

The president noted that in the discussion held by his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to search for common economic responses in Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of global challenges, Venezuela proposed, together with Bolivia, to be a central hub for petrochemical investment.

He stressed that all this is a guarantee for petrochemical products, especially fertilizers, which are needed by the farmers of the entire region and for the production of food for the cities.

He noted that this is a strategic alliance that you have to devote time to and look for results.

Maduro emphasized that we are on the right side of history, and the upcoming battles will have only one destination: the victory of the peoples of Bolivia and Venezuela and the united peoples of Latin America.

Arce expressed that in the broadest spirit that his country should improve the integration of Latin America, in order to “build that great homeland for which we yearn and yearn”, this step is a grain of sand to advance in that “great company” to achieve. El Libertador dream and many others.

He emphasized that the strengthening of bilateral relations embodied in the agreements reached, after several days of work by ministers and technical teams, “marks the resumption” of relations between Caracas and La Paz.

He celebrated that the agreements are the starting points for relations between his government and the government of Venezuela, and stressed that they will continue to work to achieve integration in the field of communications and air transport, and the Bolivarian Republic feels that it has a great ally in Bolivia.