Caracas, December 13 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has arrived in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, where he will attend the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
At the Simón Bolívar international airport, in Maiquetía, La Guaira state, he was received by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, the Cuban ambassador in Caracas, Dagoberto Rodríguez and other authorities.
Díaz-Canel is the first of the dignitaries to arrive in the Bolivarian Republic to attend the summit meeting of ALBA-TCP, which will commemorate this Saturday its 20th anniversary of its creation by commanders Hugo Chávez Frías (1954-2013) and Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016).
The Bolivarian Alliance was born in Havana on December 14, 2004 and is made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia.
It has as special guests Syria, Haiti and Suriname, and is based on principles of economic complementarity, cooperation and the defense of Latin American and Caribbean identity and culture, among others.
