Barbados, October 6. The various existing peace organizations in the Caribbean and other progressive organizations such as the International Network in Defense of Humanity - Caribbean Chapter (NIDOH-C) and anti-imperialist personalities from eight nations of the subregion met in Bridgetown convened by the World Council peace. The Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples (MovPaz), the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) resident in Barbados, the Peace Council of Jamaica (JPC), the Guyana Peace Council (GPC) were invited by the various organizations and personalities that make up the NIDOH-C, with the assistance of eight countries (Barbados, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela) and for two days discussed the most pressing current challenges facing peace and revive the collective coordination of the regional peace movement. The ambitious program included topics related to the challenges and threats of the Trump administration for the Caribbean, the situation of colonial territories such as Martinique, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico and others, the problem of foreign military presence in its various forms, conflicts which affect regional unity such as Haiti-Dominican Republic, lessons learned on the imperialist strategy against the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, Cuba's struggle to lift the blockade and return the territory illegally occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base, foreign cultural penetration and media warfare, as well as the economic crisis and the social collapse of the Caribbean.
Experienced political leaders, pro-independence activists, social activists and relevant academics from the subregion placed the issue of peace in the priority place it deserves by identifying the real threats of a new world war that would give way to a nuclear conflagration of mass extermination, while analyzing the tangible effects of climate change and the environmental disaster produced by the activity of the irrational man at the service of the great economic interests that endanger the existence of the human species.
A closed working session was scheduled for the second day of the Conference to discuss and agree on a Final Declaration, which, together with the adoption of a concrete plan of action, would lead to a short-term roadmap addressing the main challenges identified by the pacifist movement. (Cubaminrex / Embacuba Barbados)