ALBA meets to propose joint action to combat Ebola

An extraordinary summit gathers today in Cuba the leaders of 12 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, to raise a joint action against the Ebola virus in the region.

“In This extraordinary summit on Ebola protocols must be unified to protect and prevent this disease in the region”, said the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

The Summit, will be attended by the nine countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA): Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Cuba, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, plus Haiti, Guyana and Suriname.

“We come to coordinate protocols of protection, prevention, and also all the experience our authorities have been accumulating to improve the Ability to prevent the disease (…) and to help the people of Africa to overcome this situation,” said the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

This summit will be held two days after Fidel Castro, in behalf of Cuba, offered “cooperation” to the United States in the fight against Ebola. “We will gladly Cooperate with American personnel in this task,” said Fidel Castro.