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Hugo Chavez Receives Cuban President Raul Castro
CUBA, April 16th, 2009. Cuban President Raul Castro arrived to the Venezuelan city of Cumana, Sucre to attend the Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Raul was received at the airport by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "There is an endless list of things they have done against us and that they intend to continue doing against other countries," said the Cuban president during a press conference at the Antonio José de Sucre international airport. "I have already said this during the Sauípe Summit in Bahía, Brazil: We are not interested in joining the OAS. The OAS has to disappear," said Raul. |
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Upon his arrival to Cumana, the Cuban president said that the ALBA Summit coincides with the 48th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion carried out in April 1961 by Cuban counterrevolutionaries with the support of the US government.
During the ALBA summit, the leaders of the member countries —Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela— will analyze the regional and global impact of the current international economic crisis, along with other priority issues.
(Cubaminrex- Granma)