ALBA is a New Age, Venezuelan Minister
La Paz - Venezuelan People's Power Education
Minister Hector Navarro said the Bolivarian
Alliance for the People of our Americas
(ALBA) is an age of relations among its nine
member nations.
The official told Prensa Latina news agency
that taking Cuba as example, the ALBA
emerged as an alternative to the Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA) that Washington
tried to impose on the region. ALBA is being
strengthened by means of solidarity projects
and complementariness, as well as tangible
results.
Navarro, who is attending the ALBA Social
Council, explained that the new objectives
of integration are above import taxes,
market interests or the consumer society
that they wanted to impose on our nations
from abroad.
The ALBA allows thinking that it is possible
that the nations take part, without thinking
about how much profit they would get in
foreign currency, but to aid others, sharing
experiences and the clean hope to solve
their own problems with the help of the
rest.
This mechanism of integration is like a
family, with a shared viewpoint to pay
attention to needs, and a good example in
health is to guarantee equal access to
medicines, he said.
In the sphere of education, Navarro
annpoounced that in addition to the literacy
and post literacy programs, common teaching
programs are being planned, as well as the
creation of a publishing fund to support
publishing literature for the schools of
ALBA nation members.
Our respective educational laws also feed
back from the experience of other members of
the bloc, he said.
Venezuelan Higher Education Minister Luis
Acuna is also attending the forum.
This integrationist mechanism is composed of
Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba,
Dominica, Honduras, Ecuador, Nicaragua,
Saint Vicent and the Grenadines, and
Venezuela.
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