Food and drug jointly produced, says Diaz-Canel’s Alba project

Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed on Tuesday that the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (Alba) will seek a regional cooperation “strategy” for co-production pharmaceutical s food, specifically two elements that hurt Cuban scarcity severely.

At the conclusion of the XX ALBA Summit, which was held in Havana, Diaz Canel highlights highlights quotes and He cited a shared interest in food and drug progress, though he did not specify the details of those plans.

The Cuban ruler and his allies Nicolas Maduro, Luis Arce and Daniel Ortega supported the “design of a post-Covid strategy” that bets on “biotech and economic productivity” industries, with the help of the Hugo Chavez-created Alba Bank, to produce “pharmaceuticals and food,” the EFE cited.

This contradicts the numbers on which it is based Food purchases from the United States by the Cuban government they grow up. According to a report by the Cuban-American Economic and Trade Council, the volume of sales of food and basic agricultural products from that country to Cuba in October 2021 was $22,271,632, nearly double 1,1607,415 in October 2020 and four times more than 3,704,369 from the same month of 2019.

Diaz-Canel said that the final text of the quote is “substantial” and is positioned in relation to “multiple challenges,” taking refuge as usual in his speeches into imprecise terms. He also cited Castro’s motto, adding that “unity must be immutable.”

Havana, which, since the middle of the year, has received emergency donations from ALBA countries and other neighboring countries and allies in the face of the serious health crisis resulting from out of control of the epidemic and the lack of food and basic necessities, And tried to sell its vaccines against the disease to the countries of the region.

however, Of the 10 members of the group, Nicaragua and Venezuela used some of those injections, along with Iran and Vietnam. This is despite the fact that Havana blames vaccinations with its medicines, which have not yet been evaluated by any international body, for the drop in virus infections on the island in the past two months.

However, at the end of the meeting, Diaz-Canel stressed his government’s “willingness” to continue cooperating with the rest of Alba’s allies in the field of vaccines against the Corona virus.

A little earlier, the Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance, Sacha Llorente, introduced The bloc’s post-pandemic action plan 2022, agreed at the Havana meeting, which includes the creation of an “observatory against intervention” – Monitoring the destination of the 424 million dollars that Washington will distribute to support democracy in those countries, and to consolidate the relations of the Latin American mechanism with other countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Likewise, the construction of an economic, financial and monetary plan was included in the proposal presented at the end of the meeting.

In conclusion, the visiting politicians had planned to take a family photo, visit the opulent Fidel Castro Rose Center, inaugurated by Maduro at the end of November, and a reception at the Havana Convention Center.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America currently has ten members (Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Granada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela) and two special guests (Haiti and Suriname).