The Cuban rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel flew this Wednesday by surprise to Venezuela, in whose capital, Caracas, the summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America is being held (ALBA).
“We travel to the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to participate today in the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit. We are urged to further strengthen this integration mechanism which, as Fidel said, is 'an unprecedented example of revolutionary solidarity,'" the president expressed in X.
Accompanied by the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), Bruno Rodriguez Grill, also the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) had not made any announcement of his travel plans.
The Caracas meeting began this Wednesday morning. According to the agencyWHICH, the event does not currently have a public agenda of topics or an official list of participants, although this Tuesday some Caribbean leaders began to arrive in the Venezuelan capital.
Last December, the usual annual ALBA summit was not held in Havana, although no reasons were given to explain the decision. The organization was created in December 2004, promoted by the then presidents of Venezuela and Cuba,Hugo Chavez andFidel Castro. It is made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia, with Haiti, Syria and Suriname as special guests.
In addition to Díaz-Canel and Rodríguez Padilla, the Cuban delegation is made up of the Cuban ambassador to Venezuela,Dagoberto Rodriguez Barrera, andJosefina Vidal Ferreiro, vice minister of MINREX and national coordinator of ALBA-TCP, among other directors and officials of the Cuban regime's foreign ministry.
Called to work “together to strengthen regional unity and cooperation” between the bloc's countries, the summit takes place at a turbulent time for the regime.Nicolas Maduro, summoned by the opposition that leadsMaria Corina Machado facing the next presidential elections in Venezuela.
At the end of March, the Cuban Prime Minister,Manuel Marrero Cruz, traveled to Venezuela to “strengthen relations of brotherhood and solidarity” between the regimes of Caracas and Havana.
Despite the maneuvers of the Maduro regime to disqualify Machado, the Venezuelan opposition persists in presenting a unity candidacy for the next electionswhich will be held next July.
While the Palace of the Revolution fears a new social outbreak and sees the sources of unrest and protests multiply due to the fuel crisis, blackouts and general shortages, the Miraflores Palace shows its nervousness about the next electoral call.
The decision to travel without prior notice -in one of the Cubana IL 96 planes that the Havana regime had under maintenance in Russia- puts the focus once again on the international travel of Díaz-Canel and his entourage,something that outrages Cubans due to the lack of results, the propaganda purposes and maintenance of the regime's alliances, and the high cost that these trips represent for the country's public treasury.
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