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‘NUESTRA AMÉRICA:’ THE SAN CARLOS DECLARATION  
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January 27, 2026
Progressive International
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_ Delegates from governments, parliaments, and movements adopt the
San Carlos Declaration and commit to coordinated action against
coercion in the America. _

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Bogotá, Colombia — 90 delegates from 20 countries gathered in
Bogotá for the emergency hemispheric convening Nuestra América today
adopted the San Carlos Declaration, launching a new continental
project to defend sovereignty, democracy, and peace in the Americas.

Over two days of closed deliberation and public assembly, ministers,
parliamentarians, diplomats, trade unionists, and movement leaders
from across the hemisphere and beyond forged a shared diagnosis of the
present crisis and a common strategy to confront it. The Declaration
affirms that the future of the Americas must be decided by its peoples
— and defended together.

The text warns that a revived Monroe Doctrine and “Trump
Corollary” now threaten the hemisphere through sanctions, blockades,
destabilisation, and militarised coercion. It situates this danger in
a longer history of struggle for self-determination, invoking the
legacies of Simón Bolívar, José Martí, Benito Juárez, and José
de San Martín.

OPENING THE CONFERENCE, COLOMBIA’S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ROSA
YOLANDA VILLAVICENCIO TOLD DELEGATES:

“Killings. Unilateral attacks. Electoral interference. Pressure on
our justice systems. Territorial ambitions. For the past twelve
months—and for the past two centuries—Nuestra América has been
the stage for these and so many other acts of aggression.

“But we also know how to resist. We know how to organise, how to
build community. And above all, we know that initiative, time, truth,
and justice are on our side.”

From this diagnosis flows a concrete programme of action. Delegates
commit to:

Coordinate in multilateral forums to uphold the UN Charter and resist
unilateral coercion;

Build hemispheric mechanisms to confront sanctions, blockades, and
economic shocks;

Advance solidarity across the region — from Cuba to Venezuela, from
Mexico to Colombia and beyond — through humanitarian cooperation and
the rejection of militarised solutions;

Defend the rights of Latin American migrants in the United States and
oppose mass deportations;

Strengthen democratic protections, financial and trade autonomy,
energy and food sovereignty, and regional integration;

Sustain Nuestra América as a living process of coordination among
governments, movements, and peoples.

The San Carlos Declaration, named for the Palacio San Carlos that
hosted the emergency gathering, concludes by convening the next
Nuestra América in Havana, Cuba, calling on peoples around the world
to stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and affirming that “the
Americas will no longer be governed by fear, fragmentation, or
imperial decree, but by unity, sovereignty, and peace.”

DAVID ADLER, CO-GENERAL COORDINATOR OF THE PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL
AND CONFERENCE CHAIR, SAID:

“What began in Bogotá as an emergency gathering has become a
political subject. Nuestra América is now a project with history
behind it and a future before it.

“From this very land, Simón Bolívar taught that no republic can
sustain its freedom alone. Today, in the face of sanctions, blockades,
militarism, and repression, the peoples of the Americas are choosing
cooperation over fragmentation and sovereignty over subjugation.

“The San Carlos Declaration is not an appeal for protection. It is a
declaration of intent: the peoples of the hemisphere will defend
themselves — together.”

As imperial pressures on the region intensify, Nuestra América
emerges not as a one-off event, but as a continental process — a
common front for a hemisphere determined to govern itself and speak in
its own voice in the world. Delegates discussed this process with
Colombian President Gustavo Petro at a lunchtime meeting at Casa de
Nariño on Saturday 24 January.

Delegates include Colombia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, ROSA
YOLANDA VILLAVICENCIO, Progressive International Co-General
Coordinator DAVID ADLER, DANIEL ROJAS, Minister of Education of
Colombia; ANDRÉS ARAUZ, former presidential candidate of Ecuador;
CHRISTIAN DUARTE, Secretary of Finance of Honduras; BILL DE BLASIO,
former Mayor of New York City; THIAGO ÁVILA of Brazil’s Global
Sumud Flotilla; Colombian Senator MARÍA JOSÉ PIZARRO; CLÉMENCE
GUETTÉ, Vice President of the French National Assembly; Spanish
Deputy GERARDO PISARELLO; Uruguayan Senator BETTIANA DÍAZ; Cuban
Ambassador CARLOS DE CÉSPEDES; WALTER BAIER, President of the
European Left Party; Mexican Deputy ANDREA NAVARRO; JORGE TAIANA,
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina; MARTHA CARVAJALINO,
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia; VARSHA
GANDIKOTA-NELLUTLA, Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive
International and Executive Secretary of The Hague Group; SUSANA
MUHAMAD, former Colombian Minister of Environment and Sustainable
Development; ROXANNA VALENZUELA, the mayor of Tucson, Arizona;
Venezuelan ambassador CARLOS EDUARDO MARTINEZ MENDOZA, Honduran Vice
Foreign Minister GERADO TORRES ZELAYA, International Relations
Secretary for Brazil’s CUT ANTONIO LISBOA, among many others.

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