In Latin America ALBA Defense School to strengthen peace, independence policy http://www.abn.info.ve/node/60525

The School of Defense of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) will work “to strengthen the region as a territory of peace,” expressed last Tuesday Bolivian president Evo Morales.“We are compelled to raise a stable proposal of peace,” Morales said from Santa Cruz city, eastern Bolivia, where is located the training center for civilian and soldiers of ALBA member states.During the opening ceremony, together with Defense ministers of Venezuela and Nicaragua,he added:

“We have decided to live in peace because we know the armed conflict only favors the most powerful nations. We also reject that aggression and invasion are used to settle differences.”The school aims at strengthening integration in the bloc and devise strategies to answer the threats posed by foreign interventions in the continent.“We decided to open our school to think with our own head, to stand up, join and achieve the development of our people to recover the spirit of fight of our independence,” said the President after describing as ill-fated the colonialism fostered by the US School of the Americas.After looking back at the battles that Latin American native populations have fought against Europe"s invasion,

Morales affirmed that opening the School of Defense “is a homage paid to the resistance of our ancestors.”“Creating the ALBA School is an opportunity to reflect over the future not to repeat mistakes of the past.”“We may not allow that the history of colonization repeats and that our resources are the loot of the empire,” the Bolivian president added, and he expressed that the threat of invasions is posed on the countries which want independence, those which make up the Bolivarian Alliance.“Peoples of the ALBA-TCP (People"s Trade Treaty) are being besieged, sanctioned and punished by the imperial arrogance just because we are exerting the right of being decent and sovereign,” Morales said and he reminded the aggressions currently committed by western powers against the Middle East.