Former Venezuelan VP tapped as executive secretary of Latin American bloc

CARACAS, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela's former vice president and former foreign minister Jorge Arreaza has been named the new executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), the regional integration bloc announced Monday.

Arreaza will be in charge of carrying out the ALBA-TCP 2030 Strategic Agenda to "mark an extraordinary momentum in the alliance