Havana - The ministers of culture of the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA, in Spanish) discussed today in Cuba on the sector''s role in reaffirming the identities of their countries.
Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela and Cuba, evaluate the relaunching processes of the Cultural ALBA Grannacional Project.
In addition, strategies aimed at encouraging the active participation of communities in cultural processes, the development of creative economies and the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage will be reviewed.
The appointment will comply with what was agreed at the fifth meeting of these authorities, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in August 2014.
An essential point of the meeting will be the analysis of the decisive role culture has played since the emergence of ALBA, in the reaffirmation of Latin American and Caribbean identity in favor of integration and unity of people.
It has also influenced the economic growth, eradicating poverty, reducing social inequalities and achieving sustainable development, based on respect for cultural diversity.
Cultural ALBA Grand National Project was approved by the ALBA at the 6th Summit in Caracas, Venezuela, in January 2008, in order to boost the processes of unity through culture to the countries of the region and others in the region .
Since the First Meeting of ALBA Ministers of Culture, held in March 2007, Cuba has the status of international coordinator of actions undertaken in the framework of ALBA.
The ALBA Cultural Fund complements this project with the production, distribution and promotion of various goods and services representative of the Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The Sixth Meeting of Ministers of Culture of this forum will become a conductive space to reaffirm the principles of living well/good living, solidarity, complementarity, decolonization, the depatriarchalization and multiculturalism promoted by ALBA.
