Osvaldo Martinez stresses the panel member on Critical Thinking and social struggles in Latin America Nairobi, January 23 .- The Cuban Revolution was and is a bulwark of socialism in Latin America and resistance against imperialism said here Osvaldo Martínez MP, speaking at the VII World Social Forum (WSF).
Martinez, chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly People participated in a panel on critical thinking and social struggles in Latin America, which was renowned intellectuals and professors. Before an audience
diverse and eager to know details of the island today, the legislator said that the continuity of the revolution is guaranteed.
"As the supreme guarantee of such continuity are the ethical values \u200b\u200bthat had sown the revolution, which make up a political culture opposed to consumerism, banality and profit as an ideal of life," he said.
On the other hand, commented on the positive trend of high economic growth in Cuba in the last three years (12.5% \u200b\u200bof Gross Domestic Product in 2006).
also considered very good and promising in terms of trade and cooperation in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), a mechanism that also belong to Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua recently joined.
Martinez spoke at the panel organized by the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO) with thinkers Immanuel Wallenstein, United States, Boaventura de Sousa (Portugal), Francois Houtart (Belgium) and Camille Chalmers (Haiti). Statements were also
Brazilian Joao Paulo Santos, the Landless Movement and the Colombian academic Liliam Soriano. (PL)
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