16th Summit ALBA-TCP: Consolidating Peace and Integration in Cuba
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Photo: ACNThe 16th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), will defend here since this Friday the regional peace and consolidate Latin American and Caribbean integration.
With regard to the appointment, the Cuba-Venezuela Binational Commission will be held and in the afternoon the central act will take place on the 14th anniversary of the creation of ALBA-TCP by the historical leaders of the Cuban revolutions, Fidel Castro, and of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified on Thursday the integrationist vocation of the island in a message posted on his Twitter account @DiazCanelB, with a photo that shows the birth of the project with the signature of Fidel Castro and Chávez on December 14, 2004.
Made up of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, among others, the Bolivarian alliance emerged as an alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a neoliberal proposal of the United States that sought to undermine the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Since its inception and to date, the integration mechanism maintains solidarity, complementarities, justice and cooperation as fundamental principles of its axis of action and relations between the member states.
It is also a political, economic, and social alliance in defense of the independence, self-determination and identity of the peoples, in accordance with its precepts.
Thanks to the concerted actions in the context of ALBA-TCP, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua were declared Free of Illiteracy Territories in 2005, 2008 and 2009, respectively, and five million people learned to read and write through the Cuban educational method 'I can'.
Also, the program known as Misión Milagro made it possible for more than three million people, mainly of low income, from 21 countries, to recover from ophthalmological conditions with free medical attention.
Thousands of young people from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa were trained as community doctors of deep social vocation and high scientific, technical, ethical and humanistic training in the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) with offices in Cuba and Venezuela.
From the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty, other initiatives such as the Cultural Fund of Alba and the multinational Telesur were born to promote the cultural independence and communication sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.
The members of ALBA-TCP have also closed ranks against the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States to Cuba, and Washington's attempts to overthrow progressive governments such as those of Venezuela and Nicaragua. / PL
