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Raul Castro Calls For
Solidarity to Handle
Financial Crisis
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Raul Castro Calls For
Solidarity to Handle
Financial Crisis
Havana - Cuban Leader
Raul Castro on Monday
called for solidarity
between Latin America
and the Caribbean to
efficiently handle the
coming "disaster"
brought by the
international financial
crisis.
Castro said during the
beginning of the third
Cuba-Caribbean Community
(Caricom) summit that
cooperation will be
needed to boost the
equity and welfare of
people in the face of
the global crisis. Cuba
is not a member of
Caricom.
Castro and other 14 area
governors attended the
one-day summit in
Santiago de Cuba, about
730 kilometers southeast
of Havana.
The situation has been
more difficult for
Caribbean countries,
Castro said, because of
the regional devastation
caused by the hurricane
season.
The "success and
survival (of Latin
America and the
Caribbean) depend on all
countries, small or big,
rich or poor, without
renouncing their
national
particularities," Castro
said.
Despite its own
difficulties, Castro
said Cuba will continue
to assist small
Caribbean nations with
medicine and education.
Castro announced that
next year Cuba will
offer 480 scholarships,
150 of them in medicine,
for students of the
region.
Cuba will also open
three ophthalmic centers
in Guyana, Saint Lucia
and Jamaica, setting up
a large service network
with the capacity to
perform surgeries on 215
patients per day, Castro
said.
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