Chavez: Petrocaribe is a platform that we must strengthen
Hugo Chávez arrived in the morning hours on Friday to Saint Kitts and Nevis, where the agency said that energy cooperation "with good sailing wind." Petrocaribe said that has contributed to closer cooperation, mutual aid, and investment union of nations that make up in just four years

June 12 2009 | 12:08 pm - LMG / MAM / LP


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Chávez during intervention Petrocaribe Summit V | AP

This Friday at the Fourth Petrocaribe Summit being held in Dominican Republic, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, said that the agency is "a platform geoeconomic" very important, however, urged the group to "take care" and "strengthen"
"We want to go further, we want to continue to consolidate and follow Petrocaribe creating new mechanisms," he said.

He asked the members of Petrocaribe not to give thanks to Venezuela for the creation of this group. "We are ashamed that we give thanks, because for us it is a commitment, we are children of Bolivar and missions are marked by history and by geography itself, to meet a modest role in binding for the true liberation of our people "he said.

During his speech, did not lose the opportunity to send a "very welcome Caribbean" the Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl. "The claim of Cuba is the claim of all of us."

He also stressed that the Venezuelan crude is today at $ 66.20 per barrel.

For the president, has successfully integrated Petrocaribe four years in a series of islands and countries of the zone, after joining this initiative, marked their separation with the empire.

Indicated that the organization, together with the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), have become dynamic mechanisms that complement and integrate tools such as subregional economic aid. "They are sisters and structures for this summit is going to deepen the theme of the implementation framework of ALBA Caribbean Economic Fund, intended to strengthen and give greater economic potential," he said.

Chavez announced that the next June 24 will take place at a meeting of ALBA Venezuela, an organization which was incorporated Ecuador and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.



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Upon arriving in Saint Kitts and Nevis, remarked that "Venezuela has very important role in the liberation of the Caribbean. Only together will we be independent (...) Petrocaribe sailing with good wind."


Chavez said that Petrocaribe has contributed to closer cooperation, mutual aid, and investment union of nations that make up in just four years.