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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3

HISTORY 3CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION 3

CHRONOLOGY OF THE SUMMITS 4

I SUMMIT HAVANA, CUBA DECEMBER 14, 2004 6

JOINT DECLARATION VENEZUELA CUBA 6

AGREEMENT BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND CUBA FOR THE ALBA APPLICATION 10

II SUMMIT - HAVANA, CUBA APRIL 27 AND 28, 2005 15

FINAL DECLARATION OF THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN CUBA AND VENEZUELA

FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE ALBA

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III SUMMIT - HAVANA, CUBA APRIL 28 AND 29, 2006 20

ACCESSION OF BOLIVIA TO ALBA 20AGREEMENT FOR THE APPLICATION OF ALBA-TCP 21

JOINT COMMUNIQU 27

IV SUMMIT - MANAGUA, NICARAGUA JANUARY 11, 2007 29

ACCESSION OF NICARAGUA TO ALBA 29

V SUMMIT - TINTORERO, VENEZUELA APRIL 28 AND 29, 2007 30

POLITICAL DECLARATION 30

PROJECTS GRANNATIONALS 33

ENERGY TREATY OF ALBA 40

VI SUMMIT - CARACAS, VENEZUELA JANUARY 26, 2008 45

POLITICAL DECLARATION 45ACCESSION OF DOMINICA 48

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GRANNATIONAL ENTERPRISE PROJECT IN THE

FRAMEWORK OF ALBA

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FOUNDING ACT OF ALBA BANK 55

DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN

DEMOCRACY PURSUED BY PEOPLE OF BOLIVIA

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I EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - CARACAS, VENEZUELA APRIL 23, 2008 59

AGREEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATION PROGRAMS IN THE

FIELD OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY

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DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT TO THE REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA 62

II EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS AUGUST 25, 2008 63

ACCESSION OF HONDURAS TO ALBA 63

JOINT DECLARATION 64III EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - CARACAS, VENEZUELA NOVEMBER 26, 2008 66

JOINT DECLARATION 66


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IV EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - CARACAS, VENEZUELA FEBRUARY 02, 2009 68


FOOD SECURITY AND SOVEREINGNTY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MEMBER

COUNTRIES OF PETROCARIBE AND ALBA. ALBA-FOOD

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AGREEMENT FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF A GRANDNATIONAL AGRO-FOODCOMPANY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PETROCARIBE AND ALBA

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V EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - CUMANA, VENEZUELA APRIL 16 AND 17, 2009 80


DOCUMENT OF THE COUNTRIES ALBA FOR THE V SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS 83

VI EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT - MARACAY, VENEZUELA JUNE 24, 2009 87


ACCESSION OF ECUADOR TO ALBA 94

RESOLUTION ON THE ACCESSION OF ECUADOR 96

ACCESSION OF SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES TO ALBA 97

RESOLUTION ON THE ACCESSION OF SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 100ACCESSION OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDAS TO ALBA 101

RESOLUTION TO THE INCORPORATION OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA TO ALBA 104

ACT OF CONSTITUTION OF THE ALBAS COMMISSION FOR THE COMMEMORATION

OF THE BICENTENARY

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VII SUMMIT COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA OCTOBER 17, 2009 107


ALBA-TCP STRUCTURE 118

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE PEOPLESTRADE TREATY TCP 119

ACTION PLAN FOR TRADE DEVELOPMENT IN THE JOINT DEVELOPMENT

ECONOMIC ZONE OF THE ALBA-TCP

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DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE 128

DECLARATION FOR A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH 130

DECLARATION ON THE NEED TO END THE EMBARGO IMPOSED BY THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA

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DECLARATION ON HONDURAS IN SUPPORT OF ITS LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT 133

VIII SUMMIT - HAVANA, CUBA DECEMBER 13 AND 14, 2009 135


STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING ALBA-TCP 142

SPECIAL COMMUNIQU ON CLIMATE CHANGE 149

IX SUMMIT - CARACAS, VENEZUELA APRIL 19, 2010 153

BICENTENARY MANIFESTO OF CARACAS 153

X SUMMIT - OTAVALO, ECUADOR JUNE 25, 2010 159

DECLARATION OF OTAVALO 159

SPECIAL DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE 162


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Executive Summary

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), is a

platform for the integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which puts emphasison solidarity, complementarity, justice and cooperation, and is intended to transform the Latin-American societies, making them more just, educated, participative and inclusive. For this reason, it isconceived as an integral process that ensures social equality and promotes the quality of life and aneffective participation of the peoples in the shaping of their own destiny.

In addition, it is a political, economic, and social alliance in defense of the independence, self-determination and the identity of the peoples comprising it.

The cardinal principle that guides ALBA is the great solidarity between the peoples of Latin Americaand the Caribbean, as upheld by Bolivar, Mart, Sucre, O'Higgins, San Martin, Hidalgo, Petion,

Morazn, Sandino and so many other national heroes, without selfish nationalism or restrictivenational policies that oppose the aim of constructing a Big Homeland in Latin America, according towhat the heroes of our emancipating f ights had dreamed.

HISTORY

In the III Summit of the Americas, in Qubec, Canada from April 20th to April 22nd, 2001, thePresident Hugo Chvez, signs the final declaration, pointing out that Venezuela was opposed to theoffer of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). In December of the same year in the frameworkof the III Summit of Heads of State and Government of theAssociation of Caribbean States, celebrated in Margarita islandin Venezuela, the President, Hugo Chvez put forward the ideaof ALBA, as a proposal for an integral, economic, social, politicaland cultural integration of the peoples of Latin America and theCaribbean.

The institutions of ALBA officially emerged on December 14th,2004 when the presidents of Cuba, Fidel Castro and ofVenezuela, Hugo Chvez met in Havana and signed theprotocols of its foundation as a form of integration and union of

Latin America and the Caribbean.

By April, 2006, through the incorporation of Bolivia, ALBA isenriched with the proposal of the Peoples' Trade Treaty (TCP),which constitutes instruments of inclusive and complementaryexchange between the countries, designed to benefit the peoplesin opposition to the Free Trade Agreements that intend to increase the power and the dominance of the transnational companies.

CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION

Venezuela 12 / 14 / 2004

Cuba 12 / 14 / 2004

Bolivia 04 / 29 / 2006

Nicaragua 01 / 10 / 2007

Dominica 01 / 26 / 2008

Honduras * 08 / 25 / 2008

Ecuador 06 / 24 /2009

Antigua andBarbuda 06 / 24 /2009

Saint Vincent andthe Grenadines

06 / 24 /2009

* On December 15th, 2009, the de factopresident Roberto Micheletti, issued anexecutive decree through which he decidedthat Honduras should leave ALBA.


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CHRONOLOGY OF THE SUMMITS

I Summit

Havana, Cuba

December 14, 2004

Joint Declaration of Venezuela - Cuba, places emphasis on therejection of the FTAA and specifies the 12 guiding principles ofALBA, affirming that the cardinal principle is solidarity.The signing of the Agreement for the Application of ALBAcontains 13 articles, which provide the framework for Venezuela'sefforts and as well as Cuba's to deepen its integration.

II Summit

Havana, Cuba

April 27 and 28, 2005

Final declaration - First Meeting: Cuba - Venezuela.It is agreed upon the Strategic Plan for the application of ALBAthrough concrete actions between Venezuela and Cuba.

III Summit

Havana, Cuba

April 28 and 29, 2006

Adhesion of Bolivia enriches ALBA with the proposal relating toPeoples' Trade Treaty (TCP).

Agreement between Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia for theapplication of the ALBA-TCP.

IV Summit

Managua, Nicaragua

January 11, 2007

Adhesion of Nicaragua, at the inauguration of Daniel Ortega,President of Nicaragua.

V Summit

Tintorero, Venezuela

April 28 and 29, 2007

The modality of Projects and Grand-national Enterprises wasestablished.Signing of the Energy Agreement.

VI Summit

Caracas, VenezuelaJanuary 26, 2008

Adhesion of Commonwealth of Dominica.

Signing of the Founding Act of the Bank of ALBA.Conceptual definition of the Grand-national Project andEnterprise.Declaration in Support of the Bolivian Process ofTransformations.

I Extraordinary Summit

Caracas, Venezuela

April 23, 2008

The Agreement on the Implementation of Cooperation Programswas concluded in the field of Food Sovereignty and Security.Support for the process of changes in Bolivia.

II Extraordinary Summit

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

August 25, 2008

Adhesion of Honduras.It is agreed to cooperate immediately with the efforts made byHonduras in order to reduce poverty and promote socialprograms.

III Extraordinary Summit

Caracas, Venezuela

November 26, 2008

It is agreed to construct a monetary area, through theestablishment of Common Account Unit - SUCRE (UnitarySystem of Regional Compensation), a clearing house ofpayments and a stabilization fund.


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IV Extraordinary Summit

Caracas, Venezuela

February 02, 2009

It is agreed to concentrate the resources and efforts on thepriority areas: literacy, postliteracy, health, food, energy,environment, telecommunications and culture.The agro-food initiative is launched and supported through thesigning of two agreements in the framework of Petrocaribe and

ALBA; food security and sovereignty agreements; and formationof a Gran-national Food Enterprise.

V Extraordinary Summit

Cumana, Venezuela

April 16 and 17, 2009

The implementation of the projects was welcomed withsatisfaction: ALBA Culture Fund, Grand-national Energy, Gas andOil Enterprise and the creation of a Regulatory Body that shouldelaborate the Health Recording System (ALBAMED).It is agreed to finance a literacy program and an agriculturaldevelopment project for Haiti.Consultations on the position taken by the ALBA countries for theV Summit of the Americas.

VI Extraordinary SummitMaracay, Venezuela

June 24, 2009

Adhesion of Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines andAntigua and Barbuda.Signing of the Constitutive Act of the Commission of ALBA Groupfor the celebration of the Bicentenary.

VII Summit

Cochabamba, Bolivia

October 17, 2009

Establishment of the Fundamental Principles of TCP (Peoples'Trade Treaty).Adoption of an Action Plan for the Development of Trade in theEconomic Area of Shared Development of ALBA-TCP.Suitability of the ALBA-TCP structure.Special declaration on: Rights of Mother Earth, Climate change,Honduras and Necessity of ending the economic, commercial andfinancial embargo imposed by the United States of Americaagainst Cuba.

VIII Summit

Havana, Cuba

December 14, 2009

It ratifies the Founding Principles of ALBA-TCP.Adoption of the ALBA-TCP Structure and Functioning.Special communiqu - Climate change.

IX Summit

Caracas, Venezuela

April 19, 2010

It expresses that the victory of Socialism will be the onlyguarantee for authentic independence and sovereignty with

justice for the people. Hence, actions must be taken on thefollowing topics: Integration and Unity, Fight againstInterventionism and War, Defense of the Rights of Mother Earthand of Human rights, Economic Independence, Social Missions

and Social Movements.

X Summit

Otavalo, Ecuador

June 25, 2010

It ratifies the commitment on the Rights of the IndigenousPeoples and Durban Declaration and Program of Action (DDPA)against racism, xenophobia and intolerance.It was advised to constitute a mechanism for meetings anddialogue between peoples and indigenous communities andafrodescedents, within the Council of Social Movements of ALBA.


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JOINT DECLARATION VENEZUELA CUBAI Summit - Havana, Cuba December 14, 2004

During the official visit of the President Hugo Chvez Fras to Cuba on the tenth anniversary of his firstencounter with the Cuban people, a wide and deep exchange took place between the President of the

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the President of the State council of the Republic of Cuba,

accompanied by their respective delegations. Both Heads of State agreed to sign the following

viewpoints:

We emphasize that the Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAA) is the most accomplished

expression of the appetites of domination over the region and that would constitute a deepening of

neo-liberalism and would create levels of dependence and subordination without precedence in case it

enters into force.

We analyze historically the process of integration of the Latin America and the Caribbean, and werealize that this process, far from responding to the aims of independent development and economic

regional complementarity, has served as a mechanism to deepen dependence and external

domination.

We also realize that the benefits obtained over the last five decades by the big transnational

companies, the depletion of the import substitution model , the crisis of the foreign debt and, more

recently, the dissemination of neoliberal policies, with a major transnacionalisation of the Latin

American and Caribbean economies and with the proliferation of negotiations for the conclusion of

agreements of free trade of equal nature than that of the FTAA, create the bases that distinguish the

picture of subordination and delay that our region suffers today .

Therefore, we reject with firmness the content and the aims of the FTAA, and share the conviction that

the so called integration on neoliberal bases which it represents, would consolidate the described

picture, and would only lead to an even greater disunity of the Latin-American countries, deeper

poverty and desperation of the majority sectors of our countries, to the denationalization of the

economies of the region and to an absolute subordination to the dictates from outside.

We are making it clear that integration is, for the countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean, an

indispensable condition to aspire to the development amidst the increasing formation of big regional

blocks that occupy predominant positions in the world economy, and that only an integration, based on

cooperation, solidarity and common will to move all kinds of consumption towards higher levels ofdevelopment, could satisfy the needs and longings of the Latin-American and Caribbean countries

and, at the same time, preserve their independence, sovereignty and identity.

We concur that the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA or DAWN), proposed by the

President Hugo Chvez Fras on the occasion of the 3rd Summit of the Heads of State and of

Government of the Association of the States of the Caribbean, celebrated on Margarita's island in


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December 2001, outlines the guiding principles of the real Latin-American and Caribbean integration,

based on justice, and we commit ourselves to fighting together to make it a reality.

We affirm that the cardinal principle which must guide the ALBA /DAWN is the widest solidarity

between the peoples of the Latin America and the Caribbean, which is underpinned by the thought ofBolivar, Mart, Sucre, O'Higgins, San Martin, Nobleman, Ption, Morazn, Sandino and so many

other illustrious leaders, without selfish nationalisms or restrictive national policies which deny the aim

to construct a Great Homeland in Latin America in accordance with the dream of the national heroes

of our emancipating fights.

In this regard, we fully concur that the ALBA / DAWN will not be a reality with a mercantilist criteria or

self-interest from business profit or national benefit in the detriment of other peoples. Only a wide

latinoamericanist vision recognizing the impossibility that our countries develop and are really

independent in an isolated form, will be capable of achieving what Bolivar called "" see the

biggest nation in the world emerge in America, not really for its extension and wealth but for its

freedom and glory ", and what Mart would conceive as " Our America ", to separate it from anotherAmerica, expansionist and with imperial appetites.

Likewise, we express that the ALBA /DAWN is aimed at transforming the Latin-American societies,

making them more just, educated, participatory and caring; and therefore , it is conceived as an

integral process which ensures the elimination of the social inequalities and fosters quality of life and

an effective participation of the peoples in the shaping of their own destiny.

We share the views that the ALBA/ DAWN must be guided by the following cardinal principles and

bases to reach objectives outlined above:

1. Trade and investment must not be an end in itself, but instruments to reach a just and

sustainable development, given the fact that the real Latin-American and Caribbean

integration cannot be a blind product of the market, much less a simple strategy to extend the

external markets or to stimulate the trade. In order to achieve it, an effective participation of

the State as a regulator and coordinator of the economic activity is needed.

2. Special and differential Treatment, which takes into account the level of development of the

various countries and the dimension of their economies, and which guarantees the access for

all the nations that take part in the benefits that stem from the process of the integration.

3. The economic complementarity and the cooperation between the participating countries andnon competition between countries and productions, in such a way that promotes a

productive, efficient and competitive specialization which is compatible with the

balanced economic development in every country, with the strategies of fighting against the

poverty and with the preservation of the cultural identity of the peoples.


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4. Cooperation and solidarity that are translated into special plans for the least developed

countries in the region, should include a Continental Plan against illiteracy, using modern

technologies that have already been tested in Venezuela, a Latin-American plan of free health

care to citizens who lack such services and a scholarships scheme of regional character in

areas of major interest for economic and social development.

5. Creation of the Social Emergency Fund, proposed by the President Hugo Chvez in the

Summit of the South American Countries, recently celebrated in Ayacucho.

6. Inclusive development of the communications and the transport between the Latin-American

and Caribbean countries, which includes joint plans of roads, railroads, maritime routes and

airlines, telecommunications and so on.

7. Actions to enable the sustainability of the development by means of procedure, and which

protect the environment, stimulate a rational use of the resources and prevent the proliferation

of wasteful patterns of consumption that are foreign to the realities of our peoples.

8. Energy Integration between the countries of the region, which secures the stable supply of

energy products in the interests of the Latin-American and Caribbean companies, as

advocated by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with the creation of PetroAmerica.

9. Promotion of Latin American capital investments within Latin America and the Caribbean, with

the aim to reduce the dependence of the countries of the region on the foreign investors. To

that effect, a Latin-American Investment Fund, a Bank of Development of the South, and the

Latin-American Mutual Guarantee Company would be created, among others.

10. Defense of the Latin-American and Caribbean culture and of the identity of the peoples of theregion, with particular respect for and promotion of the autochthonous and indigenous

cultures. Creation of the Television of the South (TELESUR) as an alternative instrument to

the service of the dissemination of our realities.

11. Measures for intellectual property norms, while protecting the heritage of the Latin-American

and Caribbean countries against the voracity of the transnational companies, which must not

become an obstacle to the necessary cooperation in all areas between our countries.

12. Coordination of the positions in the multilateral spheres and in the processes of negotiation of

all kinds with countries and blocks of other regions, including the fight for the democratization

and transparency in the international organizations, particularly in the United Nations and its

agencies.

In the year of the commemoration of the 180th anniversary of the glorious victory of Ayacucho and of

the Convocation to the Anfictinico Congress of Panama, which was an attempt to open the way for

a real process of integration of our countries, frustrated ever since, we express our conviction that


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now, with the consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution and the unquestionable failure of the

neoliberal policies imposed upon our countries, the Latin-American and Caribbean peoples are finally

on the way to their second and real independence. The emergence of the Bolivarian Alternative for the

Americas proposed by the President Hugo Chvez Fras found its best expression.

Signed in Havana, on the fourteenth day of December, in the year of two thousand and four.

Fidel Castro Ruz

President of the Council of the State of the Republic of Cuba

Hugo Chvez Fra

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela


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AGREEMENT BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND CUBAFOR THE ALBA APPLICATIONI Summit - Havana, Cuba December 14, 2004

One the one hand, the President Hugo Chvez Fras, on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of

Venezuela, and on the other hand, the President of the Council of State, Fidel Castro Ruz, on behalf

of the Republic of Cuba, gathered in the city of Havana on December, 14th , 2004, on the occasion of

the celebration of the 180th anniversary of the glorious victory of Ayacucho and of the Convocation to

the Amphictyonic Congress in Panama, have considered extending and modifying the full Cooperation

Agreement between Cuba y Venezuela, subscribed on October 30th, 2000. To this end, it was

decided to sign the present agreement on the tenth anniversary of the first encounter of the President,

Hugo Chvez with the Cuban people.

Article 1: The governments of Venezuela and Cuba have decided to take concrete steps towards theprocess of integration based upon the principles, which are laid down in the Joint Declaration signed

as of this date between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba.

Article 2: Since the Bolivarian process has been consolidated following the decisive victory in the

revocatory referendum of 15 August, 2004 and in the regional elections of 31 October, 2004, and

Cuba being in position to ensure its sustainable development, the cooperation between the Republic

of Cuba and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will as of this date, not only be based upon the

principles of solidarity , which will always be present, but also upon a maximum possible extent of the

exchange of goods and services which prove beneficial to the social and economic needs of both

peoples.

Article 3: Both countries will implement a strategic plan to ensure the most beneficial and productive

complementarity on the basis of rationality, of the exploitation of the existing benefits in a manner or

another, of saving in resource, of extension of helpful employment, of access to markets or any other

consideration underpinned by a real solidarity that enhances the strengths of both parties.

Article 4: Both countries will exchange comprehensive technological packages developed by the

parties, in areas of common interest, which will be facilitated for its utilization and use, based upon the

principles of mutual benefit.

Article 5: Both parties will work together in coordination with other Latin-American countries, to

eliminate the illiteracy in third countries, using evidence-based and efficient methods of massive

application, which have successfully been put into practice in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Also, they will collaborate in health programs for third countries.

Article 6: Both parties agree to execute investments of mutual interest on equal conditions than those

realized by national entities. These investments can adopt the form of mixed companies, cooperative


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productions, projects of joint administration and other partnership modalities that they may decide to

establish.

Article 7: Both parties will be able to agree on the opening of state-owned bank subsidiaries of a

country on the national territory of the other country.

Article 8: In order to facilitate the payments and collections corresponding to commercial and financial

transactions between both countries, the conclusion of a Reciprocal Credit Agreement between the

banking institutions designated for the purpose by the Governments was agreed on.

Article 9: Both governments accept the possibility of practicing countertrade to the extent that this

turns out to be mutually suitable to extend and to deepen the commercial exchange.

Article 10: Both governments will stimulate the development of cultural joint plans that take into

account the particular characteristics of the different regions and the cultural identity of both peoples.

Article 11: In reaching the present Agreement, the political, social, economic and juridical

asymmetries between both countries have been taken into account. Cuba, throughout more than four

decades, has created mechanisms to resist the blockade and the constant economic aggression,

which allow for a great flexibility in its economic and commercial relations with the rest of the world.

Venezuela, for its part, is a member of international institutions to which Cuba does not belong. All of

these aspects must be considered when applying the principle of reciprocity within the commercial and

financial agreements reached by both governments.

Article 12: Accordingly, Cuba proposed the adoption of a series of measures directed to deepening

the integration between both countries and as expression of the spirit of the joint declaration signed on

this date about the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Considering the solid arguments exposedby the Cuban party and its high convenience as an example of the integration and the economic unity

to which we aspire, this proposal was understood and accepted by the Venezuelan party in a brotherly

and friendly fashion, as a constructive gesture that expresses the great reciprocal confidence that

exists between both countries.

The actions proposed by Cuba are as follows:

1st: The Republic of Cuba eliminates immediately way the duties or any type of non-tariff barrier

applicable to all the imports made by Cuba and whose origin is the Bolivarian Republic of

Venezuela.

2nd: Each and every state investment, together with Venezuelan mixed companies, including the

private Venezuelan capital in Cuba, is exempted from taxes on profits during the period of

recovery of the investment.

3rd: Cuba grants the Venezuelan-registered ships the same treatment than the ships flying a

cuban flag in all the operations that they execute in Cuban ports, as part of the relations of


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exchange and collaboration between both countries, or between Cuba and other countries, as well

as the possibility of taking part in cabotage services between Cuban ports, on equal conditions as

the ships flying a cuban flag.

4th: Cuba grants the Venezuelan airlines the same facilities which the Cuban airlines haveregarding the transportation of passengers, cargo to and from Cuba and the use of airport

services, facilities or any other type of facility, as well as the domestic transportation

5th: The price of the oil exported by Venezuela to Cuba will be fixed on the basis of the

international market price, as stipulated in the current Agreement of Caracas in force between

both countries. Nevertheless, taking into accounts the traditional volatility of the oil prices, which

have occasionally made the Venezuelan oil price fall below 12 dollars a barrel, Cuba offers to

Venezuela a guaranteed price not lower than 27 dollars per barrel, always as per the

commitments assumed by Venezuela inside the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries

6th: Concerning the investments of state of the Venezuelan entities in Cuba, the Cuban partyeliminates any restriction to the possibility that such investments could be 100 % the property of

the Venezuelan investor, who is the State.

7th: Cuba offers 2.000 annual grants to young Venezuelans so that they can attend higher

education in any area that could be of interest for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, including

the areas of scientific research.

8th: The imports of goods and services coming from Cuba shall be paid by means of Venezuelan

products in the national currency of Venezuela or in other mutually acceptable currencies.

9th: Concerning the sport activities which have gained territory in Venezuela within the Bolivarianprocess, Cuba offers the use of its facilities and equipments for anti-doping controls, on the same

conditions as those granted to the Cuban athletes.

10th: In the sector of education, the exchange and collaboration will extend to the assistance in

terms of methods, programs and techniques of the process of instruction and education which are

of interest for the Venezuelan party.

11th: Cuba puts at the disposal of the Bolivarian University the support of more than 15.000

medical professionals that take part in the Barrio Adentro (In the Neighborhood) Mission , for the

training of all the integral doctors and health specialists , including candidates who wish to be

considered for scientific qualifications, accordingly to the needs of Venezuela, and of all the pupils

of the Mission Sucre who want to study Medicine and subsequently graduate as integral General

Practitioners, which, being put together, could amount to tens of thousands over a period no

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12th: The integral health services offered by Cuba to the population who is cared for by the

Mission Barrio Adentro (In the Neighborhood) and whose number is over 15 million persons, will

be provided on conditions and economic terms that are highly preferential and shall be mutually

agreed upon.

13th: Cuba will facilitate the consolidation of multi-focused tourism products coming from

Venezuela without fiscal surcharges or restrictions of another type.

Article 13: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for its part, proposed the following actions

orientated towards the same aims set forth in the Article 12 of the present agreement.

1st: Transfer of own technology in the energy sector.

2nd: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela eliminates immediately any type of non-tariff barrier to

all the imports made by Venezuela and whose origin is the Republic of Cuba.

3rd: Any state investment and Cuban mixed companies in Venezuela are exempted from taxes on

profits over the period of recovery of the investment

4th: Venezuela offers the scholarships which Cuba needs for studies in the energy sector or in any

other one that is of interest for the Republic of Cuba, including the scientific and research areas.

5th: Financing of productive and infrastructure projects, among others, energy sector, electrical

industry, road paving and other roadways projects, port development, aqueducts and sewage,

agro-industrial and services sector.

6th: Tax incentives to projects of strategic interest for the economy.

7th: Preferential facilities to ships and aircraft flying a Cuban flag on Venezuelan territory within

the limits which its legislation allows.

8th: Consolidation of multi-focused tourist products coming from Cuba without fiscal surcharges or

any other type of restrictions.

9th: Venezuela puts at the disposal of Cuba its infrastructure and equipments of air and maritime

transport on preferential bases to support the plans of economic and social development of the

Republic of Cuba.

10th: Facilities for mixed companies with Cuban capital for the processing of raw materials

downstream to be established.

11th: Collaboration with Cuba in research studies on biodiversity.


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12th: Participation of Cuba in the consolidation of endogenous community centers on a binational

level.

13th: Venezuela will develop agreements with Cuba in the field of telecommunications, including

the use of satellites.

Signed, in the city of Havana, on the 14th day of December, 2004.

Fidel Castro Ruz

President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba

Hugo Chvez Fra

President of the Bolivarian of Venezuela


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FINAL DECLARATION OF THE FIRST MEETINGBETWEEN CUBA AND VENEZUELA FOR THEAPPLICATION OF THE ALBAII Summit - Havana, Cuba April 27 and 28, 2005

Gathered in Havana, Cuba, on the 27th and 28th of April, 2005, the delegations of Cuba and

Venezuela, inspired by the historical Joint Declaration and the Agreement for the Application of the

Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA / DAWN), signed by the president of the Bolivarian

Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chvez Fras, and the President of the Councils of State and of the

Ministers of Cuba, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, implemented and adopted in compliance

with the article 3 of the above mentioned Agreement, the Strategic Plan for the application of the

ALBA. This article reads as follows:

Both countries will implement a strategic plan to guarantee the most beneficial and productivecomplementarities on bases of rationality, use of existing benefits from one party and another,

resources saving, extension of the helpful employment, and access to markets or another

consideration underpinned by a real solidarity that promotes the strengths of both countries ".

The Strategic Plan as adopted, contemplates, amongst the most relevant actions, the following ones:

To inaugurate in the present year in Venezuela, 600 Integral diagnostic centers; 600 Physiotherapy

and Rehabilitation Rooms and 35 High-Technology Centers that will offer free health care of high

professional level to the whole venezuelan population.

Training of 40 thousand doctors and 5 thousand specialists in Health Technology, inside the BarrioAdentro II Program (Into the Neighborhood II) in Venezuela.

Training of 10 thousand High School graduates from the Mission Ribas in medical and nursing study

in Cuba, and those graduates will be assigned to polyclinics and hospitals across the country, and

have their usual residence in the homes of the cuban families. Cuba will continue its contribution to the

development of the Barrio Adentro I y II Plan( Into the Neighborhood I and II), through which close to

30 thousand cuban doctors and other health care workers across the length and breadth of the

Venezuelan territory, will be providing their services at the end of the 2nd semester of this year.

100 thousand Venezuelans will benefit from surgical operations this year in Cuba for different eyedisorders. To that end, all the conditions have been created in the hospital care settings, equipped

with the most modern and sophisticated means and living conditions throughout the stay. Likewise,

Cuba will maintain its support to contribute to the success of the special Bolivarian Programs, among

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The Mission Robinson I, through which Venezuela will soon declare itself to be the second

territory, free of illiteracy in America, for having taught a million four hundred six thousand of

Venezuelans how to read and write.

The Mission Robinson II, where a million two hundred sixty two thousand Venezuelans arestudying to reach the Sixth Degree.

The Mission Ribas which trains high school students in order to give access to university

studies to young Venezuelans, to whom the Bolivarian Revolution offers this opportunity. In

this regard, the fulfillment of the Scholarships Scheme, which Cuba provides, will be

promoted.

The Mission Sucre for the universalization of the higher education.

The Vuelvan Caras Mission (Change Faces) for the training of skilled workers and for them

to have access to new sources of employment. In addition, both countries will work on thedesign of a continental project to eliminate illiteracy in Latin America.

Health care will be maintained in favor of venezuelan patients in Cuba. A number of patients that will

reach 7.793 patients with 6.567 accompanying family members at the end of 2004, for whom highly

specialized services will be provided, among them, cardiovascular surgery, ophthalmology,

orthopedics, organs transplants, and this year it is aimed at reaching the number of 3.000 patients and

2.500 accompanying family members. In the economic and commercial area, the Strategic Plan also

includes concrete outputs and projects that we intend to develop together in the immediate future.

Today, the Office of Petroleum of Venezuela S.A. PDVSA-Cuba was inaugurated by the Presidents of

both countries in Havana, in order to achieve the purpose of exploring and exploiting, refining,importing, exporting and commercializing hydrocarbons and its derivatives, as well as its

transportation and storage.

A subsidiary of the Industrial Bank of Venezuela, which is a hundred per cent Venezuelan, was

inaugurated in Havana, and the opening of a subsidiary of the Banco Exterior of Cuba in Caracas,

which is a hundred per cent Cuban, was approved. Both state institutions will make a notable

contribution to a sustained increase of the economic relations and the bilateral trade, which has

already started to materialize.

The third Meeting of the Administering Commission of the Economic Complementarities Agreement

was celebrated, and it was agreed to grant tariff preferences to 104 new lines of export of Cuba andset up a progressive tax relief schedule, for both these lines and the already existing preferences. In

all cases, they have taken into account the commitments of Venezuela, enshrined in the Agreement of

the Andean Community of Nations and the MERCOSUR.

For its part, Cuba issued the Joint Resolution No. 6 of the Ministries of Finance and Prices and

Foreign Trade, exempting from customs duties the imports, whose origin is the Bolivarian Republic of


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Venezuela. Also, the Resolutions No 26 and 27 of the Ministries of Finance and Prices were issued by

Cuba, exempting the ship-owning companies or owners of ships flying a venezuelan flag, who take

part in the passenger and cargo transport on the national territory from paying taxes on the profits and

also from the payment of the tonnage rights of the ships flying a venezuelan flag, which arrive at

Cuban port from abroad.

Cuba will acquire the initial amount of 412 million dollars in venezuelan products for productive

purposes, as well as products made for social use or for direct consumption of the population, which

will have a positive effect on employment generation in Venezuela, encouraging the creation of

approximately 100 000 additional jobs.

These products will be offered on the Cuban market, with a preferential treatment inside the economic

and social development policy and the raising of quality of life of the Cuban people

In the process of preparation of this first meeting of the ALBA, both delegations identified also 11

projects for the establishment of Joint Enterprises and other modalities of economic complementaritiesin Cuba and Venezuela which, in a progressive form, will be formalized from the moment that the

ongoing studies verify its economic viability. In this regard, today in the afternoon, the following

agreements were signed:

Memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a strategic alliance for the development of the

iron and steel sector in Venezuela and for the creation of a binational company orientated towards the

recovery of raw materials.

Letters of intent for the constitution of a joint business directed towards the improvement of the railway

infrastructure of both countries; promotion of the integration in the area of maritime transport;

constitution of a binational company to promote the agricultural development; enlargement of the base

of giant tankers in Matanzas; creation of a joint strategic alliance in order to develop mining projects of

nickel and cobalt in the regions of Aragua, Carabobo and Cojedes; repair and construction of ships;

creation of a Cuban Venezuelan mixed enterprise for the production of sports goods and the

transportation of fuel.

Likewise, it was agreed to work on the organization and implementation of 9 endogenous

development projects in both countries, among them:

Endogenous Development Project in the State of Barinas; " Hato Caucagua ", in the State of

Apure; Hotel Sheraton, Meli Miramar and School of Tourism in the State of Vargas;Zamorano "Santa Rita" Fund in the State of Apure and "Vacation City" of the Caracas, State

of Vargas.

In Cuba, endogenous projects will be developed in the Superior Institute of Agricultural

Sciences of Havana, (ISCAH), where both young Cubans and thousands of specialists and

professionals of the Venezuelan agricultural sector will be trained together, and in the


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Communities of Bolivar, Sandino and Mart in the municipality of Sandino, in the province of

Pinar del Ro.

Among other documents signed after two hard working days, we emphasize that:

Three Agreements between the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and theGovernment of the Republic of Cuba, relative to air and, maritime transport and to the

constitution and exploitation of avessel repair yard and construction of small naval units.

Bilateral Agreements regarding vegetable health and animal health. Agreements, framework

contracts and memorandum of understanding in Tourism, Informatics and Communications,

Transport, Communication and Information, Education and Sports, Biodiversity, Environment,

Science and Technology, Hydraulic Resources and Construction

Memorandum of understanding between the Ministries of Popular Economy, and of Light

Industries and Trade of Venezuela and the Ministry of Domestic Trade of Cuba.

Framework agreement, Contracts for the purchase or sale of crude oil and of storage of crude

oil and its derivatives and letters of intent for the rehabilitation of Cienfuegos Refinery and for

transfer of technology, between PDVSA and CUPET.

Framework collaboration Agreement in the fields of the Electrical Industry and of cooperation

in the energy sector.

International Agreement for construction between the Ministry of Habitat and Housing of

Venezuela and the Ministry of Construction of Cuba.

Agreements regarding civil aeronautics. Agreement for the Convocation of the First SportsGames of Latin-American and Caribbean Integration which will take place in Cuba from June

17th to June 30th, 2005. Agreement for the use of the anti-doping laboratory of Cuba by

Venezuela and the commencement of construction of a facility of this kind in Venezuela.

Framework Agreement between the Organizing Committees of both countries for the

celebration of the XVI World Festival of Youth and Students in Venezuela.

Agreements between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of both countries directed towards the

promotion of ALBA in international organizations, which includes, among other initiatives, its

introduction in the Second South Summit, which will take place in Qatar, in June, 2005 and in

the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in September of this year. In

short, among government agreements, letters of intent, memorandums of understanding,

contracts and framework agreements, 49 documents were signed.

Also as part of the Strategic Plan, the First Meeting for the Caribbean integration in the Sport Sector

was celebrated in March in Caracas with the participation of 10 countries of Central America and the

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In the fields of fisheries and aquaculture, an important bilateral cooperation program was formalized

and the First Summit of Fisheries and Regional Aquaculture will be held in Venezuela, between May.

15th and May 19th of this year.

A cooperation program regarding culture, which includes among others, publishing services, cinemaand discography development, and study of the creation of a joint venture of cultural industries, was

agreed upon.

Contracts for 2005 for an amount of 308 million dollars, as agreed in the V Mixed Commission, and

which form part of the ALBA /DAWN, have been signed.

All these agreements include actions to develop and initiatives that will progressively contribute to

strengthening the integration process inspired by the ALBA / DAWN, which came to be an example,

into which we aspire to incorporate the Latin America and the Caribbean.

We must express that this Strategic Plan is a flexible instrument that will continue to broaden and beenriched to the same extent that new proposals that come up, meet the objectives enshrined in the

Joint Declaration and the Agreement for the application of ALBA.

Having the historical privilege of making this Final Declaration public in the presence of President

Hugo Chvez and Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, both delegations formally commit themselves to

sparing no efforts until the dream of both Bolivar and Mart for a united and integrated Latin America

and the Caribbean is fulfilled.

As clearly stated in the Joint Declaration ... we fully concur that the ALBA / DAWN will not become a

reality with a mercantilist criteria or self-interest from business profit or national benefit in the detriment

of other peoples. Only a wide latinoamericanist vision recognizing the impossibility that our countriescan develop and be really independent in an isolated form, will be capable of achieving what Bolivar

called "" see the biggest nation in the world emerge in America, not really for its extension and

wealth but for its freedom and glory ", and what Mart would conceive as " Our America ", to separate

it from another America, expansionist and with imperial appetites.

Jose Mart, in his memorable article in the Homeland magazine (revista Patria) on June 11th, 1892

wrote: our enemy sticks to a plan: make us fight each other, distract us, divide us, and drown us. For

this reason, we stick to another plan: teach ourselves the best we can, stand fast, remain together,

mock the enemy, and finally make our homeland free. Plan versus Plan ".

What we are adopting today belongs to Bolivar and Mart.

! Ever onwards to victory!

Delegations of Venezuela and Cuba

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ACCESSION OF BOLIVIA TO ALBAIII Summit - Havana, Cuba April 28 and 29, 2006

Recognizing that the implementation of the projects and policies of neoliberal character has led to thespread and deepening of dependency, poverty, plundering of our natural resources and social

inequality in our region.

The real integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean is an indispensable

condition for the sustainable development, safety and food sovereignty, and for meeting the needs of

our peoples.

Only the unity of action of the Latin-American and Caribbean countries, based on the principles of

cooperation, complementarity, mutual help and solidarity will allow us to preserve the independence,

sovereignty and identity, as well as to face successfully the tendencies towards unilateralism and

hegemonic aspirations, strengthening a Peoples' Trade Treaty, the fight for the improvementof mankind and, also, for friendship and solidarity; and peace between the peoples of the world must

be every government's moral obligation.

Convinced of the need to promote a real integration based on solidarity complementarity and

humanity between our countries and peoples, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Bolivia,

we want to contribute to this process with the initiative of the Trade Treaties between the Peoples by

endorsing the objectives, principles and conceptual basis of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples

of Our America, inscribed in the joint declaration signed in Havana, on the fourteenth of December,

two thousand four, by the President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba and the President

of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Adopted in Havana, on the 29th day of April, 2006.

Evo Morales Ayma

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AGREEMENT FOR THE APPLICATION OF ALBA-TCPIII Summit - Havana, Cuba April 28 and 29, 2006

Recognizing that the implementation of the projects and policies of neoliberal character has led to thespread and deepening of dependency, poverty, plundering of our natural resources and social

inequality in our region.

The real integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean is an indispensable

condition for the sustainable development, safety and food sovereignty, and for meeting the needs of

our peoples.

The Presidents Hugo Chvez Fras, on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Evo Morales

Ayma, on behalf of Bolivia and Fidel Castro Ruz, on behalf of the Republic of Cuba, gathered in the

City of Havana on the 28th and 29th of April, 2006, decide to sign the present Agreement for the

construction of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the TradeAgreements between the Peoples of our three countries.

General Provisions:

Article 1: The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, of Bolivia and of Cuba, have

decided to take concrete steps towards the process of integration, based on the principles inscribed in

the Joint Declaration, signed on December 14th, 2004, between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,

Republic of Cuba and to which the Government of Bolivia adheres and welcomes.

Article 2: The countries will implement a strategic plan to guarantee the most beneficial and

productive complementarities on the basis of rationality, use of existing advantages in the countries,resources saving , extension of employment, access to markets or another consideration underpinned

by a real solidarity, which promotes our peoples.

Article 3: The countries will exchange integral technological packages, developed in these countries

by the parties, in common areas of interest which will be facilitated for its use and exploitation based

on the principles of mutual benefit.

Article 4: The countries will work together, in coordination with other Latin-American countries, to

eliminate illiteracy in these countries, using massively evidence-based and efficient methods, which

have been put successfully into practice in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Article 5: The countries agree to execute investments of mutual interest, which can adopt the form of

public, binational, mixed, cooperative companies, joint management projects and other forms of

association which they decide to establish. Priority shall be accorded to the initiatives that strengthen

the capacities of social inclusion, the industrialization of the resources, food safety, within the

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Article 6: In cases of binational or three-nation companies with strategic connotation, the parties will

do their best, as long as the nature and cost of the investment allow it, for the host country to hold at

least 51% shares.

Article 7: The countries will be able to agree upon the opening of state-owned bank subsidiary of acountry on the national territory of the other country.

Article 8: to facilitate the payments and collections relative to commercial and financial transactions

between the countries, the conclusion of swap arrangements between the banking institutions

designated for the purpose by the Governments.

Article 9: The Governments will be able to practice mechanisms of commercial compensation of

goods and services to the extent that this proves to be mutually suitable in order to extend and deepen

the commercial exchange.

Article 10: The Governments will promote the development of joint cultural plans which keep intoaccount the particular characteristics of the different regions and the cultural identity of the peoples.

Article 11: The Governments Party will deepen the cooperation regarding communication, taking the

necessary actions to strengthen its capacities at levels of infrastructure, in terms of transmission,

distribution, telecommunication, among others; as well as at level of capacities of production of

information, cultural and educational contents. Accordingly, the Governments will continue supporting

the communicational space of integration secured through Telesur, strengthening its distribution in our

countries, as well as its capacities of content production.

Article 12: The Governments of Venezuela and Cuba recognize the special needs of Bolivia as a

result of the exploitation and plunder of its natural resources during centuries of colonial andneocolonial rule.

Article 13: The Parties will exchange knowledge in the scientific-technical field in order to contribute to

the economic and social development of three countries.

Article 14: In the light of all of the above, the Government of the Republic of Cuba, the Government of

the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Government of the Republic of Bolivia, decide to

execute the following actions:

Actions to develop by Cuba in its relations with Bolivia in the framework of ALBA and the TCP

(Peoples Trade Agreement)

FIRST: To create a Cuban - Bolivian non-profit entity which guarantees free quality ophthalmological

operation to all those citizens of Bolivia who lack the necessary economic means to cover the highest

prices of these services, with a view to preventing tens of thousands of poor Bolivians from losing the

sight every year or suffering serious limitations, which are often disabling as to the visual function.


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SECOND: Cuba will provide the highest technology equipment and the ophthalmological specialists

needed in the initial stage, and those, with the support of young Bolivian doctors trained in the Latin-

American School of Medical Sciences (ELAM) as residents, or other doctors and bolivian residents or

coming from other countries, will offer diligent care to the bolivian patients.

THIRD: Cuba will cover Cuban medical staff salaries in the framework of the present actions.

FOURTH: Bolivia will guarantee the necessary facilities to offer the service, and the latter could be

buildings intended for medical purposes or adapted for these aims. From the three donated

ophthalmology centers offered within the Bilateral Agreement signed on 30 December last year, Cuba

will raise that previous number to six.

FIFTH: Six centers would be located in La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Sucre, Potosi and

Copacabana town of La Paz Department. Those six ophthalmology centers will be able to operate on

no less than 100 thousand persons every year. Such capacities will be able to expand if required.

SIXTH: Cuba ratifies Bolivia's offer of 5 thousand scholarships for the training of doctors and

specialists in Integral Family Medicine or other areas of the Medical Sciences: 2.000 in the first quarter

of 2006, are already undergoing basic training in Cuba; 2.000 in the second semester of the present

year, and 1.000 in the first semester of 2007. In the subsequent years, the established quota will be

renewed with new entrants. They are included among these new scholarship holders; some 500

young Bolivians who have already been studying medicine at Faculties of Cuban Medical Sciences.

SEVENTH: Cuba will maintain in Bolivia for as long as that brotherly country considers it necessary,

600 medical specialists who travelled to Bolivia on the occasion of the serious natural disaster which

occurred in January of this year and affected all the Bolivian departments. Likewise, it will donate 20

field hospitals with surgery, intensive therapy, and emergency care to the victims of cardiovascularaccidents, laboratories and other medical resources sent on the occasion of the mentioned disaster for

the most affected areas.

EIGHTH: Cuba will continue contributing to Bolivia through its experience, didactic material and the

necessary technical means for the literacy program in four languages: Spanish, Aymara, Quechua and

Guarani, which could be offered to the entire needy population.

NINTH: In the education sector, the exchange and collaboration will extend to the assistance of

methods, programs and techniques of the teachers and educational process that are of interest for

the Bolivian party.

TENTH: Cuba will convey its experiences to Bolivia regarding energy saving and will cooperate with

this country in an energy saving program, which will be able to bring about important resources in

convertible currencies.

ELEVENTH: Every state investment and Bolivian mixed companies, including the private Bolivian

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TWELFTH: Cuba grants the Bolivian airlines the same facilities which the Cuban airlines have as to

the passenger transport and cargo to and from Cuba and the use of airport services, or any other kind

of facilitation, as well as the domestic passenger transport and cargo on the cuban territory.

THIRTEENTH: The exports of goods and services coming from Cuba will be able to be paid for by

means of bolivian products, in the national currency of Bolivia or in other mutually accepted coins

Actions to be developed by Venezuela in its relations with Bolivia in the framework of the

ALBA and the TCP

FIRST: Venezuela will promote a wide collaboration in the mining and energy sector, which will

include: institutional strengthening of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy and of the Ministry of

Mines and Metallurgy of Bolivia, through legal-technical assistance; extension of the supply of the

crude oil, refined products, LPG and asphalt, covered by the Energy Cooperation Agreement of

Caracas, up to the volumes needed to satisfy the domestic demand of Bolivia, establishing

compensation mechanisms with Bolivian products for the total invoice cancellation for these items ;technical assistance to Bolivian Fiscal Oilfields (YPFB) and COMIBOL; development project of

adequacy and extension of infrastructures and petrochemicals, steel products, industrial chemicals, as

well as other forms of cooperation that the parties agree upon.

SECOND: All state investment and Bolivian mixed companies in Venezuela are exempted from paying

taxes on profits during the period of recovery of the investment.

THIRD: Venezuela ratifies the offer of 5000 scholarships for studies in different areas of interest for

the productive and social development of the Republic of Bolivia.

FOURTH: Venezuela will create a special fund of up to 100 million dollars for the financing andproductive infrastructure projects.

FIFTH: Venezuela will donate thirty million dollars to attend to needs of social and productive

character of the Bolivian people as determined by its Government.

SIXTH: Venezuela will donate asphalt and an asphalt mixing plant that contributes to the maintenance

and construction of pathways.

SEVENTH: Venezuela will increase significantly the imports of bolivian products; especially those

which help raise its strategic food reserves.

EIGHTH: Venezuela will grant fiscal incentives to projects of strategic interest for Bolivia on its

territory.

NINTH: Venezuela will grant preferential facilities to aircraft flying a Bolivian flag on the Venezuelan

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TENTH: Venezuela puts its infrastructure and airlift and maritime transport assets in a preferential

manner at the disposal of Bolivia in order to support the economic and social development plans of the

Republic of Bolivia.

ELEVENTH: Venezuela will grant facilities so that Bolivian public or mixed companies can be set up

for the downstream transformation of raw materials.

TWELFTH: Venezuela will collaborate with Bolivia in research studies on biodiversity.

THIRTHEENTH: Venezuela will support the participation of Bolivia in the promotion of endogenous

development hubs by sharing the experience of the Mission Vuelvan Caras (Change Faces).

FOURTEENTH: Venezuela will develop agreements with Bolivia in the sphere of telecommunications,

which might include the use of satellites.

Actions to be developed by Bolivia in its relations with Cuba and Venezuela in the framework

of ALBA and TCP

FIRST: Bolivia will contribute with the export of its mining, agricultural, agroindustrial, livestock and

industrial products which are needed by Cuba or Venezuela.

SECOND: Bolivia will contribute to the energy security of our countries with its surplus hydrocarbon

production at hand.

THIRD: Bolivia will exempt all state investment of mixed companies that are set up between Bolivia

and the States of Venezuela and Cuba, from taxes on profits.

FOURTH: Bolivia will provide all its experience in the study of the indigenous peoples both in theoryand in the investigative methodology.

FIFTH: Bolivia will take part with the Governments of Venezuela and Cuba in the exchange of

experiences for the study and recovery of ancestral knowledge in natural medicine.

SIXTH: The Government of Bolivia will take part actively in the exchange of experiences for scientific

research on natural resources, agricultural genetic patterns, and farmers

Joint actions to be developed by Cuba and Venezuela in their relations with Bolivia in the

framework of ALBA and TCP

FIRST: The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba eliminate

in an immediate manner the duties or any type of non-tariff barrier applicable to all the imports from all

customs areas, made by Cuba and Venezuela, and which come from the Republic of Bolivia.

SECOND: The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba

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agricultural and industrial products exported by Bolivia, which may be left with no market, as a result of

the application of a Treaty or Free-Trade Treaties, promoted by the government of The United States

or of the European Governments.

THIRD: The Governments of Venezuela and Cuba offer Bolivia their financial, technical collaboration

and human resources for the establishment of a bolivian state airline, which is genuinely national.

FOURTH: The Governments of Venezuela and Cuba offer Bolivia their collaboration in the

development of sport, including the facilities for the organization and participation in sports

competitions and training bases in both countries. Cuba offers the use of its facilities and equipments

for anti-doping controls on the same conditions than those granted to the Cuban athletes.

FIFTH: The Governments of Cuba and Venezuela will promote, in coordination with Bolivia, the

actions that prove to be necessary to support the Bolivian just demand for the cancelation, without

conditionalities, of its foreign debt, which constitutes a serious obstacle to the fight of Bolivia against

poverty and inequality.

New measures of economic and social character will be added to the present Agreement between the

three signatory Parties.

Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba will fight for the union and integration of the peoples of Latin America

and the Caribbean.

Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba will fight for peace and international cooperation

Evo Morales Ayma

President of the Republic of Bolivia

Hugo Chvez Fras

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Fidel Castro Ruz

President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba

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JOINT COMMUNIQUIII Summit - Havana, Cuba April 28 and 29, 2006

On the occasion of the official visit of the presidents Hugo Chvez Fras and Evo Morales Ayma toCuba on the 28th and 29th of April, 2006, a wide dialogue took place with the President of the State

council of the Republic of Cuba, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the agreements of

implementation of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, which has been enriched

with the proposal of the Peoples' Trade Treaty (TCP). This dialogue included the analysis of the

current international situation especially, the challenges for the peoples of Latin America and the

Caribbean at the present political, economic and social juncture, marked by a rise in the popular fights

against the failed neoliberal policy, and by the search for new strategies and methods to achieve

development with social justice in the framework of a real Latin-American and Caribbean integration

based on solidarity.

In the dialogue between the three Presidents, the theme of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoplesof Our America was addressed, which constitutes the basis of the trade relations and collaboration

between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba, and whose application has

been developed and implemented since December, 2004 with excellent results for both countries.

An exchange took place on the initiative put forward by the President Evo Morales with regard to the

Peoples Trade Treaty (TCP), which is the exchange instruments based on solidarity and

complementarity between the countries, intended to benefit the peoples as opposed to the Free Trade

Agreements that are aimed at increasing the power and the dominance of the transnational

companies.

There was an analysis on the needs of development of his people and the challenges that the

government of the President Evo Morales is facing, barely 3 months after he entered office following

an overwhelming electoral victory, whih allowed, for the first time, for the access of the native

communities and indigenous peoples to the running of the country. The three leaders share the

conviction of a determined solidarity, mutual help, and cooperation between their peoples, devoid of

interests of commercial or corporate economic gain. And, in the particular case of Bolivia, which is

moving forward in its complex task of transforming, for the benefit of the poor, of the exploited and of

the discriminated, the present reality of profound shortage in basic social services, such as education

and health, into the use of the natural resources from the subsoil, such as petroleum and others, then

into the development of the agricultural potential, and finally into the training of qualified human

resources. The Presidents are united in the opinion that only a new and real integration underpinned

by the principles of mutual help, solidarity and respect to self-determination, can respond appropriately

to social justice, cultural diversity, equity, and to the right to development which the peoples deserve

and demand.

This integration is conceived as a type of political and economic relations very different from those

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For the reasons given above, the three Presidents agreed upon the joining of Bolivia, represented by

its President Evo Morales Ayma, to the process of building and applying the Bolivarian Alternative for

the Peoples of Our America, based upon the development of Peoples' Trade Treaty between the three

countries, and reiterate the Joint Statement between the Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of

Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba, made on December 14th , 2004, in which a first set ofconceptual basis of ALBA was provided, and to which the President, Evo Morales Ayma adheres and

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ACCESSION OF NICARAGUA TO ALBAIV Summit Managua, Nicaragua January 11, 2007

Recognizing that:

The policies of neoliberal character applied in Latin America and the Caribbean have generatedexclusion of the popular majorities from the benefits of economic growth and have deepened

inequality and poverty in the region;

In Nicaragua, these neoliberal policies have created a social emergency situation, where millions ofcitizens have been denied access to education, health and decent employment, forcing hundreds of

thousands of Nicaraguan men and women to live the painful experience of emigration and uprooting;

The overcoming of the neoliberal model and its effects in the region implies a strategic alliancebetween the States and the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, based upon the principles of

solidarity, cooperation, complementarity and mutual help, and founded on the rescue and appreciationof our identity, participatory democracy and economic development with equity;

The unity and integration of the peoples and Republics of Latin America and the Caribbean, will permit

to incorporate our region into the world under conditions which assure our right to sustainabledevelopment and the unfettered exercise of national sovereignty against hegemonic aspirations, as

well as the construction of a multi-polar world;

The unity of action of our peoples and Republics must be governed by high principles such as the fightfor human dignity, eradication of poverty and peaceful resolution of conflicts, reconciliation and the

promotion of the culture of peace;

I declare on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua, our adherence to the principles

set forth in the Joint Declaration signed on December 14th, 2004 between the President of the

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba,with which the Government of Bolivia agrees through the President of the Republic of Bolivia, in the

Agreement of 29 April, 2006.

This act symbolizes the aspirations to independence of the American peoples, whose roots are firmly

imbedded in the history of America, from the indigenous struggle against the conquerors, led by Tupaj

Amaru, Tupaj Katari, Guaicaipuro, Diriangn and Miskut, through the lighted torch of sovereigntyignited by our heroes: Francisco de Miranda, Simn Bolvar, Antonio Jos de Sucre, Francisco de

Morazn, Jose Mart, Eloy Alfaro Delgado and Augusto C. Sandino, up to the present day, when LatinAmerica has risen up, hoisting again the banners of freedom and justice of those who preceded us.

Signed in Managua, on the eleventh day (11) of January in the year of two thousand and seven

(2007).

Daniel Ortega SaavedraPresident of the Republic of Nicaragua


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POLITICAL DECLARATIONV Summit Tintorero, Venezuela April 28 and 29, 2007

On the occasion of the V Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America and ofthe first anniversary of the Peoples' Trade Treaty (TCP), Hugo Chvez Fras, President of the

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Republic of Bolivia; Carlos

Lage Dvila, Vice-President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba; Daniel Ortega Saavedra,

President of the Republic of Nicaragua; all the representatives of member countries of ALBA; and with

the presence of Ren Preval, President of the Republic of Haiti; Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Foreign

Minister of the Republic of Ecuador; Reginald Austrie, Minister of Energy and of Public Works of the

Commonwealth of Dominica; Assim Martin, Minister for Public Works, Transport, Post office and

Energy of the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis; Julian Francis, Minister of Housing, Informal Human

Settlements , Physical Planning and Land of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Eduardo Bonomi,

Minister of Labor and Social Security of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, as special guests and

observers of this Summit, held on the 28th and 29th day of April, 2007, carried out a comprehensive

evaluation of the development of programs and projects adopted in the First Strategic Plan of ALBA,

as well as of cooperation and integration actions taken during 2006 in the Republic of Bolivia, and in

the Republic of Nicaragua, and the brotherly countries of the Caribbean.

During the course of the debate that took place in a climate of brotherhood and fraternizing, we ratify

the idea that the governing principles of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, is

the broadest solidarity between the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, without selfish

nationalisms or restrictive national policies which could deny the task of constructing the "Big

Homeland", of which the leaders and national heroes of our emancipating fights had dreamed.

The integration and union of Latin America and the Caribbean, based on an independent development

model which prioritizes regional economic complementarity, create the will to promote the

development of all and strengthen a genuine cooperation on the basis of mutual respect and solidarity.

It is no longer a pipedream, but a tangible reality that has been manifest over recent years in the

literacy and health programs ,which have allowed thousands of Latin Americans to move forward on

the way to real overcoming of poverty; to cooperation provided in the energy and financial field in favor

of the countries of the Caribbean, which is contributing decisively to the progress of these brotherly

peoples; to sustained increase of fair countertrade between Cuba and Venezuela, and to a number of

joint enterprises set up between both of them in diverse productive branches; to important support and

direct funding to Bolivia for the implementation of diverse social programs, to the set of projectsidentified for the constitution of binational joint enterprises; to the impetus that we are giving

throughout the whole process to the Sandinist Government of Nicaragua which is, in only few months,

producing highly positive effects in the areas of power generation, agricultural production, supplies of

inputs for the industries, among others.

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, which is founded on the principles of

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on the basis of the well-being of our peoples, their natural resources - including their energy potential-,

on the comprehensive and intensive training of the human capital that our development requires, and

on the attention to the needs and aspirations of our men and women, has demonstrated its force and

viability as an alternative of justice as opposed to neo-liberalism and inequity.

ALBA is demonstrating by means of concrete statistics that free trade is not capable of generating the

required social changes, and that political will can do more as a support of the conscious definition of

action programs directed towards the eradication of social dramas of million human beings on our

continent.

In the light of the matters set out above, the Heads of State of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and

Nicaragua, on behalf of their respective peoples, reaffirmed their determination to continue to go

further in and deepen the construction of ALBA, on the understanding that this alternative constitutes a

strategic political alliance, whose fundamental purpose in the medium term is to produce structural

transformations in the economic - social make-up of the nations which form part of it, to make possible

a shared development, guaranteeing the successful and sustainable integration in the production andexchange processes of the current world, in order to put politics and economics at the service of the

human beings.

In the context in which it took shape, ALBA constitutes the first historical effort to construct a global

Latin-American project from a favorable political position. Since the Cuban Revolution, the progressive

forces of the continent, either from the opposition or power, whatever they had done was to build up

the strength to resist the offensive of the empire (Cuba is the exception because it managed not only

to survive, but also to build a qualitatively superior society, carrying out at the same time the far-

reaching work in an internationalist support of the poorest countries, in the middle of an appalling

blockade on the part of the North American imperialism);

It is with the birth of ALBA that we, the revolutionary forces, have been able to move into a new

situation that we could define as a necessary build-up of political forces for the consolidation of the

change which has taken place regarding the political power relation in our continent.

New perspectives for integration and merger are opening up to us, and form part of the qualitative

leap, fostered through deep cooperation links that we have established over these years. For this

reason, we have proceeded with construction of a new kind of economic and productive spaces, which

produce major benefits in favor of our peoples, through the rational use of the resources and assets of

our countries, for which it is required to move towards the establishment of Grannacional enterprises,

adopting and consolidating the normative and institutional agreements necessary for cooperation;implementing strategies and Grannacional joint programs in all our countries in the following fields:

education, health, energy, communication, transport, housing, roadways , food, among others;

promoting in a conscious and organized manner the extension of the Peoples Trade Treaty with just

and balanced exchanges; carrying out programs for the rational use of the renewable and non-

renewable energy resources, constructing a common food security strategy for all our nations;


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extending the cooperation as to the training of human resources; and creating new structures for the

strengthening of our capacity to fund the big Grannacional projects .

They reiterated their conviction that only an integration process between the peoples of Our America,

which takes into account the level of development of every country and ensures that all the nationsbenefit from this process, will permit to overcome the degrading spiral of underdevelopment imposed

upon our region.

In this V Summit, we have gleefully viewed the content of the Political Declaration signed on February,

17th in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by the Prime Ministers: Roosevelt Skerrit of the

Commonwealth of Dominica; Ralph Gonslves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Winston Baldwin

Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda, and Hugo Chvez Fras, President of the Bolivarian Republic of

Venezuela, in which they declare their willingness to promote the deepest and united cooperation

between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the signatory States of the Bolivarian

Alternative for the Peoples of Our America and the Peoples Trade Treaty, so that their social benefits

and the possibilities of a sustainable economic development with independence and sovereignty, canbe equal for all, and all this is beginning to materialize with the presence of our brothers of the

Caribbean in this V Summit.

The Heads of State and of Government of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, agreed to sign

the present Declaration with the conviction that the same Declaration opens the way towards a new

phase of strategic consolidation and political advance of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of

Our America, within the historical perspective of the achievement of the dreams of our Liberators to

construct the Big Latin-American and Caribbean Homeland.

Held in the city of Barquisimeto, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the 29th day of the month ofApril, 2007.

For the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Hugo Chvez Fras, President of the Republic

For the Government of the Republic of Bolivia

Evo Morales, President of the Republic

For the Government of the Republic of Cuba

Carlos Lage, Vice-President of the Republic

For the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua

Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic


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PROJECTS "GRANNATIONALS"V Summit Tintorero, Venezuela April 28 and 29, 2007

ALBA - EDUCATIONWe need to make education the principal strength of the transformations that we are producing in

our nations, in order to strengthen historical awareness regarding the union of the Latin-American

peoples.

The Presidents discussed and adopted by consensus the following "Grannacional" ALBA projects in

the education field:

PROJECTS

"Grannacional" Plan for the development of the literacy mission in the member countries ofALBA and others of Latin America and the Caribbean, with the integration of the experiences

acquired in Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.

University Training Plan which prioritizes community medicine, social work, among others.

Common social training program for productive work.

It was agreed upon to submit this adoption to the

Social Commission of ALBA

ALBA - CULTURE

The cultural identity provides us a solid platform for the integration and union of the peoples. It is the

starting point of everything that we want to and can do. In our case, it is one of the major

advantages that we have vis-a-vis such a diverse and heterogeneous world.

The Presidents discussed and adopted by consensus the following "granacional" ALBA projects in

the cultural field:

PROJECTS

ALBA Cultural Fund for: joint production and distribution of cinema films, Grannacional co-

production of radio and television programs, Latin-American printing and distribution of books

and publications, implementation of networks of shared bookshops.

Opening of six Houses of Alba: in Havana, La Paz, Quito, Caracas, Managua and Port-au-Prince.


Social Commission of ALBA


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ALBA - FAIR TRADE - TCP

To this end, the alignment of all the initiatives in the productive field, based upon a full economic

complementarity plan, is absolutely essential.

The Presidents discussed and adopted by consensus the following "grannacional" ALBA projects in

the fair trade field:

PROJECTS

Creation of a Grannacional enterprise of ALBA industrial supplies in order to commercialize

inputs, equipments and industrial machineries.

Creation of a Grannacional Imports and Exports enterprise of ALBA.

Creation of ALBA Shops which will constitute a storage and marketing network of finished

goods from the member countries of ALBA.

Creation of the ALBA International Fair

Creation of the Gannacional training Center for the design and implementation of research

project, technological innovation, technical assistance and training to improve the standards of

capacity and quality of our countries


Economic Commission of ALBA

ALBA - FINANCIAL

Certainly all the progress in the area of economic independence, with its spill-overs in food

production, expansion of production, economic growth and fair trade, is linked to the financialstrengths.

The Presidents discuss

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