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The Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas Welcomes the Reaffirmation of Our Region as a Zone of Peace
Black Alliance For Peace
12 Nov 2025
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CELAC

The Popular Steering Committee for the Zone of Peace in Our Americas calls on the masses of the peoples of Our America to unify struggles against the common enemy.

Originally published in The Black Alliance for Peace.

November 10, 2025 - The Social component of CELAC met over the last two days on November 8-9, 2025 in Santa Marta, Colombia with representation from social movements, mass based organizations and civil society coming together with the absolute clarity and necessity to make our region a Zone of Peace to combat and confront the US/NATO led aggressions in the Caribbean and Pacific against Venezuela, Colombia and the region at large. 

We had participants of the Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas (PSC) in these meetings and participation at all levels amplifying the call from the masses to unify our struggles against our common enemy - the US/EU/NATO Axis of Domination. As the final declaration from the summit states:

Latin America and the Caribbean play a decisive and strategic role in the struggle to consolidate a multipolar international system that successfully incorporates all states and peoples in full equality of conditions within the dynamics of world politics and economy. This breaks with the logic that normalizes the dominance of some states over others in the international system, making it possible to create conditions for Our America to become a significant center of power that could be decisive in the most complex decisions of international politics.

We have to unite to defeat the imperialist aggression against the Bolivarian people of Venezuela, poor fishermen off the coast of the Caribbean and Pacific from Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago or Venezuela, to the struggle for Haitian self determination against a new US led occupation force under the cover of the so called international community via the UN, to the struggle against ICE community raids in the streets of NY, LA and Chicago among others. 

To realize these objectives, the Popular Steering Committee is participating in the week of action Nov 15-23 in defense of Venezuelan sovereignty and calls for the organized masses of the region to also participate and amplify our collective voices on November 19th for a Regional Day of Action, and the continued development and expansion of the US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network as an organizational structure and platform from which to communicate, coordinate and successfully execute the expulsion of the US/NATO.

We call on the masses of Our Americas to unite to the Week of Action in Defense of Venezuelan Sovereignty with a key focus on:

1. Close the bases - Shut down the over 76 SOUTHCOM military bases throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. This includes the expansion into the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Talara, Piura, and along the entire Pacific Coast, and others. 

2. Reaffirm Puerto Rican independence and Haitian sovereignty - Puerto Rican sovereignty and independence are a necessity to end current military expansion and aggression in the Caribbean against Venezuela as well as long-term guarantee of US/NATO forces out of Our Americas. The popular struggle for Haitian self-determination is key to the guarantee of a true Zone of Peace. The cradle of revolution in Our Americas has been and always will be Ayiti.

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