Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inaugurated the Seventh Summit of ALBA with strong criticism of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, and the claim that more democracy in Cuba than in the U.S. Of course, this warning will be more or less what the political climate that can be succinct in that summit, where the continent of South and Central are the expectations of what the role the United States start with the new administration of President Obama.
Speaking at the meeting of Alba, President Chavez said “I think the Summit (the Americas) which will be held (…) should be the last, the last summit in that format, installing the presidential meeting Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), in the eastern city of Cumana. After asking what comprises the Americas meeting in Port of Spain, the president said that “the summit of our people” is “it”, the ALBA, which is a “summit of the union of our peoples, this must be our commitment.” lostiempos.com, add in their report, the ALBA trachea was raised by Chavez a opposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), promoted by the United States, and is composed of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominica and Honduras.
The meeting, also attended by Paraguay, Ecuador and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as guests, is centered on three points, including agreeing on a common approach to hemispheric meeting which will start in Trinidad. Chavez criticized the final declaration of the Summit of the Americas, citing a part of the beginning of the document that talks will be signed by the countries where free and democratically elected rulers and wondered: “Where there is more democracy in Cuba or the United States? “. .
