Chávez announces
ALBA Summit
for April 14-15
CARACAS, April 5 .—President Hugo Chávez today
announced a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
(ALBA) Summit this April 14-15 in Venezuela, PL
reports.
The following heads of state will be attending
the meeting: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega,
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Bolivian President
Evo Morales, Dominican Prime Minster Roosevelt
Skerrit, a representative from the Cuban government,
and Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who will
attend as a special guest.
In a telephone conversation with Venezuelan
National Radio, the Venezuelan President, who
initiated an official visit to Japan on Sunday,
affirmed that this meeting will be very opportune,
given that it has been scheduled for two days prior
to the 5th Americas Summit.
It will thus provide an opportunity to discuss
and bring common positions to Trinidad and Tobago,
he stated. He announced that a discussion on Cuba’s
isolation as a consequence of the US blockade is to
be suggested as an addition to the agenda.
"If they want to come with the same excluding
discourse of the empire – on the blockade – then the
result will be that nothing has changed. Everything
will stay the same."
The Venezuelan President affirmed that "Cuba is a
point of honor for the peoples of Latin America. We
cannot accept that the United States should continue
trampling over the nations of our America.
"To trample over Cuba is to trample over
Venezuela and this will have to be said in Trinidad
and Tobago. Nobody can make us keep our mouths shut,"
Chávez emphasized.
