May 10, 2008
Ortega leads anti-US critique at Latin American food summit
“There was confidence that globalization would resolve our energy and food problems, but they have made them worse”
In a region beset by runaway food costs, the socialist government of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and its leftist allies appear to have found fertile ground to plant the seeds of revolutionary discourse.
At an emergency food-security summit held Wednesday in Managua, Nicaragua, 14 Latin American and Caribbean nations convened under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the leftist trade bloc founded in 2004 by Cuba and Venezuela as an alternative to United States free-trade agreements. Read more
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