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Chávez: Today, a new oil geopolitics has started to be consolidated
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez FríasCUBA
Petroleumworld.com 12 24 07“Today, it starts the consolidation of a new oil geopolitics at the service of the peoples and not at the service of the imperialism and great capital”.
The statements were made by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, during his participation at the opening session of the IV Petrocaribe Summit, which is taking place at the Guanaroca Hall of the Jagua Hotel at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Petrocaribe is a proposal that has as its main objective to solve the asymmetries and differences in Caribbean and Latin American countries, because it is an integrator, unifier, and liberator mechanism to give access to the region’s people to energy resources, through a new scheme of favorable, equitable, and fair exchange.
He pointed out that this energy cooperation agreement, proposed by the Bolivarian Revolution, was born from the analysis of the “huge inequities of the region, these asymmetries people talk so much about, an inheritance from the old colonialism and the slavery as the result of a capitalist global order everyday more inhuman, everyday more unfair”.
Chávez reminded that Petrocaribe is conceived like an organ able to assure the coordination and articulation of the energy policies, including the oil and its derivatives, gas, power energy, technology cooperation, training, and energy infrastructure development, as well as taking advantage of the alternative sources, like wind and solar energy, among others.
The Venezuelan President criticized the free trade formula promoted by United States, because that proposal does not exist and Caribbean and Latin American countries are witnesses of it.
By other hand, the President of Venezuela asked his counterparts and other members of the regional organization to pay tribute to Cuba and its leader Fidel Castro that in January 2009 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution.
Among the examples of solidarity and dignity promoted by Cuba, Chávez stressed the first military defeat of the North American imperialism at Playa Girón, the epic one of Ché Guevara’s at the Congo and Bolivia, the missions of internationalist doctors, the achievements of its sportsmen, and Cuba’s unconditional support to Vietnam, among others.
Chávez announced that this Saturday he will go to Moncada’s Barracks, located at Santiago de Cuba, where it was carried out an army action on July 26, 1953 in order to overthrow the dictatorship Fulgencio Batista. This action was executed by a group of men and women of the youth of the Partido Ortodoxo under the command of the lawyer Fidel Castro.
One of the most interesting aspects of the IV Petrocaribe Summit is that it will coincide with the reopening of the Camilo Cienfuegos refinery, which is a Cuban-Venezuelan joint venture that will process in its first stage 65 thousand oil barrels a day.
The meeting will congregate the 16 nations that are part of this organization, as well as Guatemala that is present as a guest and Honduras that requested to the member countries to be accepted as part of Petrocaribe.
Petrocaribe was born during the first energy meeting of Head os States and Governments of the Caribbean carried out at Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, as part of an initiative of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
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