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ALBA to celebrate 20th anniversary in
Havana
During its first decade, ALBA-TCP has
achieved important accomplishments, including a
literacy program which has benefited some 3.5
million people. December 14, leaders from member
countries will meet in Havana for the XIII Summit to
continue promoting regional integration.
Autor: Claudia
Fonseca Sosa |
claudia@granma.cu
The
Boilivarian Alliance for the People’s of Our
America-Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) reaches
its 10th anniversary December 14, and will
commemorate the date during the bloc’s XIII Summit,
in Havana, amidst discussion to continue efforts to
develop regional integration.
Cuba, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia,
Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Lucia and St.
Vincent and the Grenadines are current members of
the alliance, established in 2004 at the initiative
of revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro and Hugo
Chávez.
During the Summit, which will take place in the
Cuban capital’s Palacio de la Revolución, approval
of St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as Grenada, as new
members is expected, according to
albatcp.cubaminrex.cu.
During its first decade, ALBA-TCP
has achieved important accomplishments, including a
literacy program which has benefited some 3.5
million people, and mobilizing emergency solidarity
in Haiti, after the 2010 earthquake, and more
recently, to combat the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa.
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