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Nicaragua Joins Bolivarian
Alternative
Nicaragua is due to join
Thursday to the Bolivarian
Alternative of the Americas
(ALBA), an integration project
boosted by Venezuela, Cuba and
Bolivia, and based on
cooperation, solidarity and
respect of sovereignty.
The news was announced on
Wednesday by Daniel Ortega in
his first speech to Nicaraguans,
immediately after being sworn in
as president.
"We are going to join ALBA, that
only unity of the peoples that
can take all of Latin America
out of poverty," said the
country s new statesman in front
of tens of thousands people who
celebrated the Wednesday night
return of Sandinism to power.
Nicaragua s entrance to that
project opposed in letter and
essence to the US-designed Free
Trade Agreements, will take
place in Managua today in the
presence of Venezuela s
President Hugo Chavez and
Bolivia s Evo Morales.
Attending by Cuba is Council of
State Vice President Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura, who represented
the island in Ortega s
inauguration.
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