(L to R) Speaker of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia Claudius Francis, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, Saint Kitts and Nevis Foreign Minister Denzil Douglas, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, Bolivia's President Luis Arce, Grenada's Minister for Economic Development, Planning, Tourism and ICT, Creative Economy, Agriculture and Lands, Fisheries and Cooperatives Lennox Andrews, and Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit wave during the official picture of the XXIV ALBA-TCP Summit in Caracas on December 14, 2024. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) celebrates its 20th anniversary in a regional context where its influence is increasingly diminishing. The summit, originally planned in Havana where the founding document was signed, was moved to the Venezuelan capital at the peak of an economic crisis that is hitting Cuba. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP) (Photo by JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images)