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Proposal from President Evo Morales
LET'S CONSTRUCT WITH OUR PEOPLE A REAL SOUTH AMERICAN
COMMUNITY OF NATIONS IN ORDER TO LIVE WELL
October 2, 2006
Fellow Presidents
and People of South America,
In Cusco, December 2004, the presidents of South America took up the commitment
of developing a "South American space, integrated in political, social,
economic, environmental and infrastructural spheres" and affirmed that
"South American integration is and has to be an integration of the peoples".
In the Declaration of Ayacucho they declared that the principles of freedom,
equality, solidarity, social justice, tolerance, respect for the environment,
are the fundamental pillars for this community to achieve an economically and socially sustainable
development "that takes into account the urgent necessities of the most
poorest, as well as the special requirements of the small and vulnerable
economies of South America".
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FINAL DECLARATION OF CARIBBEAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS REGARDING ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPS AGREEMENTS (EPAs) BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES. Santo Domingo, September 21st, 2006
Preamble: Organizations of small agricultural producers, women, business leaders, academic institutions, youth, national and international NGO´s from the Caribbean region gathered in Santo Domingo for the Fifth round of EPA negotiations declare the following:
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CALL TO SUMMIT FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE PEOPLESAnnouncement Social Summit for the
Integration of the Peoples
December 2006. Bolivia
The Hemispheric Social
Alliance (Alianza Social Continental) and the Bolivian Movement for the
Sovereignty, Integration and Solidarity of the Peoples (Movimiento Boliviano
por la Soberanía e Integración Solidaria de los Pueblos) are organizing the
Social Summit for the Integration of the Peoples, which will occur in parallel
to the meeting of Presidents of the South American Community of Nations
(Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones), scheduled for the second week of December
2006 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
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ALBA
vs ALCA: ¿Yankee go home?
Agencia
de Información Solidaria – 04/05/2006
Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales y Fidel
Castro han sellado recientemente una alianza hemisférica en La Habana, para
formalizar el lanzamiento de la Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas
(ALBA) proyecto diseñado por el presidente venezolano Chávez para afianzar una
integración latinoamericana “libre de los designios imperialistas
estadounidenses y del capitalismo neoliberal”. El tratado se denomina también
la Alternativa Bolivariana de los Pueblos.
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ALBA: Social Debt and Human Rights
Proposals for the New Social, Economic and Cultural Order
by James Petras
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 17, 2006 Introduction
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ALBA:
Deuda Social y Derechos Humanos
Propuestas
para el Nuevo Orden Social, Económico y Cultural
James Petras, Rebelión 21-05-2006
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Sinfo Fernández
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THE REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA JOINS AND SIGNS THE JOINT
DECLARATION SIGNED IN HAVANA ON DECEMBER 14, 2004 BY THE PRESIDENT OF
THE COUNCIL OF STATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE
BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.
Recognizing that
the implementation of neo-liberal plans and policies
has led to the proliferation and deepening of dependence, poverty,
the pillage of our natural resources and a state of social inequality
within our region,
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Resistance to
neo-liberalism takes off in Latin America, writes Faiza Rady
AL-AHRAM Weekly, 4 - 10 May 2006, Issue
No. 793
"Now,
for the first time, there are three of us. I believe that one day all countries
can be here," said Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana on 29 April.
"This is the happiest day of my life," he said after signing the
Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas Implementation Agreement (ALBA) and the
People's Trade Agreement (TPC) with Venezuelan President Hugo Chàvez and his
Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales.
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What is ALBA? "It is necessary to advance towards the stability of the Continent:
in politics, in economic, and in social matters,
This model, EL ALBA, aims towards the stability.
and quoting Jesus Christ words:
“The only way to Peace, is Justice;
the brotherhood, the equality...
There will be no Peace, while there is not Justice in the world”
"Hugo Chávez Frías The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) is based, fundamentally, upon a model of politic, economic and social integration of countries, as the Caribbean and Latin American, which share geographic spaces, historical and cultural bonds, necessities and common potentialities.
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ENERGY
COOPERATION AGREEMENT PETROCARIBE We,
the Heads of State and / or Government, gathered in the City of Puerto la
Cruz, Venezuela, within the framework of the Energy Meeting for the creation
of PETROCARIBE:
1. WELCOME the initiative of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
for the creation of PETROCARIBE, the fundamental objective of which is to
contribute to the energy security, the social and economic development and
the integration of the Countries of the Caribbean through the sovereign use
of energy resources based entirely on the principles for integration referred
to as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA);
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