“This is not the Roman peace of domination or submission,” said Foreign Minister Yván Gil. Venezuela celebrated the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace this Thursday and reiterated that “dialogue and reason” are “the most powerful tools against military force,” 12 years after the proclamation reached in Havana, Cuba, in 2014, with the consensus of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). It is a peace with sovereignty, with the full exercise of freedom and the will to develop,” he stressed. For his part, the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), Rander Peña, highlighted the difference in peace for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. At the meeting, Venezuela reaffirmed that Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will continue to be the foundation of its foreign policy.