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By Prensa Latina
The regional situation and the role of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will focus debate of the 17th Summit here today.
The leaders and senior political representatives will also celebrate the 15th anniversary of the regional mechanism founded December 14, 2004 by the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and the Bolivarian Venezuela, Hugo Chávez.
Solidarity, complementarity, justice and cooperation are the principles defended by ALBA-TCP, emerged as an alternative to the hegemony of capital that threatened to expand throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
The instance promotes since its creation an equitable trade between peoples, in opposition to neoliberal formulas.
The eradication of illiteracy through the Cuban method Yes, I Can; and the free eye surgeries with the Miracle Mission, are part of the achievements of this mechanism in the social sphere.
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