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New ALBA Challenges Neolibs

VENEZUELA, April 25, 2007.- Member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for America (ALBA) will study the process of building that initiative, informed Venezuelan Chancellor, Nicolas Maduro.

After confirming a Summit of ALBA for the 28th and 29th in Barquisimetro, Maduro indicated that the proposal arose as a better option of sovereign development against neoliberalism.

ALBA saw the light in 2004 as an initiative of Venezuela and Cuba that later were joined by Bolivia and Nicaragua, after which Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda subscribed a declaration of support.

The project was designed in answer to the US proposal of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, based on neoliberal trade principles.

In addition to its focus on cooperation and complementarity ALBA also applies a social focus in its concepts that include objectives to eliminate poverty and illiteracy as well as free public health in the member nations.

One of the programs is to graduate 200 thousand Latin American and Caribbean physicians in 10 years for which there are already two Schools of Medicine functioning, one in Cuba and one in Venezuela, and more are planned in other countries.

(Cubaminrex-PL)

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