Wednesday 27 August
2008, San José, Costa
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Rains In Panama Leave
800 Homeless
Nicaraguan Army to
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America, Caribbean Vow To Boost Sports Development
Cuban VP Ends Visit
to Honduras
Venezuela: No
Expropriation of Gas Stations
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Cuban VP Ends Visit
to Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Cuban Vice
President Carlos Lage
just attended Honduras"s
official admission to
the Bolivarian
Alternative for Latin
America (ALBA).
At the ceremony, Lage
noted the quality of
this integration plan
that helped so far over
1.3 million Latin
Americans recover or
improve sight and some
3.2 million learn to
read and write.
He reminded human
capacity to treasure
infinite kindness,
nobility and generosity
which are precisely the
guidelines of ALBA.
"ALBA was first an
inspiration, then a
project and today is
hope. It was inspired by
Chavez, it was a project
of Chavez and Fidel and
the hope of the Latin
American peoples," Lage
told 100,000 people in
front of the Government
House.
The ceremony was
attended by President
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela);
Daniel Ortega
(Nicaragua) and Evo
Morales (Bolivia) and
host Manuel Zelaya
(Honduras) with whom
Lage held bilateral
meetings.
Lage also met with Cuban
doctors, teachers and
other specialists
working at poor, remote
Honduran areas whom the
Cuban people revere
along the
internationalism
characteristic of the
Revolution.
Other members of the
Cuban delegation were
Deputy Foreign Minister
Yiliam Jimenez, Rogelio
Sierra Foreign Ministry
director for Latin
America and the
Caribbean; and Cuban
Ambassador to Honduras
Juan Carlos Hernandez. |
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