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Hugo Chavez Highlights Historic Role of ALBA

CUBA, June 8, 2009. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez affirmed on Sunday that the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) – a bloc for integration and cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean – could no longer be ignored in the future as some powerful countries and regional organizations have tried to do in the past. In his Sunday column ‘Chavez’s Lines’, entitled “The Battle of San Pedro Sula”, the Venezuelan leader referred to the role of ALBA during the recently concluded General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Honduras.

In his article, Chavez stressed that such a high level of coordination among so many Latin American and Caribbean governments had never been seen before the OAS meeting in San Pedro Sula.
The South American head of state and government described the six ALBA member countries as the driving force of the diplomatic and strategic efforts made during the meeting and noted that the regional bloc “is no longer an Alternative but a Bolivarian Alliance; and with us, the coordinated action of many countries that are friends of ALBA and Cuba.”

Chavez recalled that during an Extraordinary ALBA Summit in Cumana, Venezuela, last April, the organization strongly rejected the arbitrary exclusion of Cuba from the OAS. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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