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.- N.- This Friday, Petrocaribe issued a statement addressed to the countries of the Caribbean and Central America, as part of the thirteenth anniversary of this mechanism of 39; integration.
Full text of the debate Press release:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela salutes the sister countries of the Caribbean and Central America that make up the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement, on the occasion of the thirteenth anniversary of this integration mechanism, a fundamental pillar of stability and security Petrocaribe was born from the ideology of two great Latin American leaders, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, and became a platform for a form of partnership for solidarity that helps to minimize asymmetries in the access to energy resources, promotes the ability of states to implement sovereign policies aimed at eradicating poverty and improving the quality of life of the population
Today, PDVSA and the 12 joint ventures that are part of Petrocaribe have developed a key energy infrastructure for the region, whose ability to storage is 1 million 732 thousand barrels and can refine up to 70 thousand barrels a day. He has articulated a logistics that includes his own transport fleet up to 980,000 barrels. After 13 years of hard work, 356 million barrels have been provided, which have been the basis of the socio-economic development of the region.
As part of Petrocaribe, the countries carried out 790 projects in the fields of food, electricity, education, sanitation, public services, housing and health, among others, which have made a significant contribution to poverty reduction.
Petrocaribe played a key role in the fight against Venezuela's economic war. the oil bill received nearly 4 million tons of food that favored the most vulnerable populations.
Venezuela, under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro, continues to promote Petrocaribe as a strategic priority of its energy policy, based on the principles of solidarity, cooperation and sovereignty, overcoming the aggressions and economic blockade imposed unilaterally by the United States Government, which aims to reverse the progress made by the diplomacy of peace
Let us continue building solidarity and energy security of our brother countries
Viva Petrocaribe – Union of Viva la caribeña
] Caracas, June 29, 2017
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