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  26-12-2007
Cuba and Venezuela sign four new agreements regarding the energy field

More firmly establishing the principles of the Bolivarian Alternative for the People of Our America (ALBA), President Hugo Chávez, and the first vice-president of the State Counsel and of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Raúl Castro, signed 14 new cooperation agreements of which four agreements in the energy field standout
  26-12-2007
Cuba highlights need to strengthen Petrocaribe

Eleven Heads of State and Government from Petrocaribe member countries and authorities representing the other member nations attended the IV Petrocaribe Summit held in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Honduras also attended the Summit as guest nations
  26-12-2007
Commissioning Cienfuegos Refinery to bust comprehensive development of Caribbean peoples

The blueprint is most important under the Petrocaribe's long-term strategy on energy security and comprehensive development in the Caribbean basin
  26-12-2007
Yes, it is possible to achieve energy diversification in the region by 2030

The People’s Ministry for Energy and Petroleum (Menpet) and president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Rafael Ramírez, announced that it is possible to have a diversified energy matrix by 2030 in the Caribbean region
  26-12-2007
Opening of “Camilo Cienfuegos” refinery

The commissioning of Camilo Cienfuegos Refinery, located 260 kilometers from Havana, Republic of Cuba, took place on Friday, at the end of the Petrocaribe's Fourth Summit of Heads of State and/or Government
  26-12-2007
Chavez proposes new exchange mechanisms

The Venezuelan President affirmed that the Petrocaribe agreement could be emerging as a new space with a different profile and different values that go beyond free trade and capitalist anti-values, using the oil bill for this purpose
  26-12-2007
Chavez: “We are very optimistic due to Petrocaribe’s progress”

“We are very optimistic due to Petrocaribe’s progress in such a short time”, highlighted the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, during the inauguration ceremony of the IV Petrocaribe Summit held in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos
  26-12-2007
Venezuela proposes three new objectives for Petrocaribe

The Venezuelan President remembered the principles of the Petrocaribe Energy Cooperation Agreement, and at the same time expressed that the Organization is moving in a different direction because it needs to work in new areas to promote the region’s energy union
  24-12-2007
Honduras joins Petrocaribe

Honduras' membership in Petrocaribe was made formal in the Fourth Petrocaribe Summit held last Friday in the Cuban province of Cienguefos, reported People’s Power Minister of Energy and Petroleum Rafael Ramírez, on leaving the third meeting of Petrocaribe's Ministerial Council last Thursday at Jagua Hotel, in Cienfuegos
  21-12-2007
Opening session officially inaugurates IV Petrocaribe Summit

The IV Petrocaribe Summit began this Friday morning with the speech given by the first Cuban Vice President, Raul Castro Ruz. The summit will be held in the city of Cienfuegos
  21-12-2007
Petrocaribe’s Fourth Summit opens formally

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chávez Frías and First Vice-President of the Council of State and Government of the Republic of Cuba Raúl Castro Ruz, also the head of delegation of the host country, opened the Fourth Petrocaribe’s Summit. Sessions started on Friday at 10:15 a.m. at Jagua Hotel, in Cienfuegos
  20-12-2007
Caribbean leaders consolidate regional energy union in IV Petrocaribe Summit

The leaders of Petrocaribe’s 16 member countries will gather this Friday in the city of Cienfuegos, Cuba, to hold the IV Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government, with the purpose of furthering the progress of the Latin American and Caribbean energy union initiative
  20-12-2007
Energy ministers look through Petrocaribe’s strides

The Third Meeting of Petrocaribe's Ministerial Council was held on Thursday, in advance to the Fourth Summit of Heads of State of this initiative on hemispheric energy cooperation. The meeting was attended by representatives of the 16 member states, in addition to Honduras and Barbados acting as observers
  19-12-2007
President Chavez arrived to Cuba to attend the IV Petrocaribe Summit

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, arrived this Wednesday at 6:00a.m. to the International Airport Jose Marti in Havana, Cuba, to attend the IV Petrocaribe Summit to be formally held next Friday 21 in the city of Cienfuegos, in the Jagua Hotel
  19-12-2007
Reactivation of the Camilo Cienfuegos Refinery will promote endogenous development within city limits

The reactivation of the Camilo Cienfuegos Refinery, scheduled for this Friday December 21 by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, in the framework of the IV Petrocaribe Summit, will constitute a milestone in the energy history of the world and will promote endogenous developments in this city
  14-08-2007
Agreements for energy union and sovereignty

The III Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government finished with the signing of important agreements that represent a leap forward in the consolidation of the democratization process and fair use of the region’s resources
  12-08-2007
In Guyana Petrocaribe has fulfilled with its objectives

The Prime Minister of Guyana, Samuel Hinds, said during his participation in the Third Petrocaribe Presidential Summit, that in his country the main objectives of this agreement of solidarity, complementarity and cooperation with the Caribbean have been fulfilled. The objectives were to strengthen the economic and human development
  12-08-2007
Petrocaribe should become a several-year strategic plan

While reminding that a number of oil refineries would be built in Nicaragua and Ecuador, the Venezuelan Head of State pointed to the fact that Asian energy demand is expected to climb over the next few years and that both refining facilities are to benefit Nicaragua’s and Ecuador’s peoples.
  12-08-2007
Venezuela and Jamaica establish joint venture

The expansion of Kingston’s refinery will increase its processing capacity from 27,000 to 50,000 barrels of oil per day
  12-08-2007
“Petrocaribe expansion is historical”

We are allies in order to improve the quality of life of the peoples and achieve that they live with dignity and respect
  12-08-2007
Daniel Ortega: Petrocaribe is a central piece of ALBA

“This process of Latin American unity has gained a great momentum with the Bolivarian Revolution and I certainly can’t untie it from the struggle of the heroic Cuban people, from that boundless spirit of solidarity of the Cuban Revolution”, said the President of Nicaragua
  12-08-2007
Haiti ratified adhesion to Petrocaribe

The Haitian President, René Preval, expressed his satisfaction for the group of projects to be developed in Haiti, with financial assistance from the Alba-Caribe Fund.
  12-08-2007
Petrocaribe Countries subscribe to the Energy Security Treaty

Ten countries that attended the Third Petrocaribe Summit have signed the Energy Security Treaty (EST) proposed by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, with the purpose of strengthening the union between them through exchanges in oil technology, in order to reduce the economical and social gaps in the region
  12-08-2007
Petrocaribe: integration with social justice

Petrocaribe has marched in parallel with the development of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. He stated this as he was reading extracts of the Political Declaration of the Third Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government
  11-08-2007
Venezuelan Foreign Minister: Petrocaribe improves cooperation mechanisms

People’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro stated that the Third Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government would help improve energy and social cooperation mechanisms, describing the summit as an ideal scenario to discuss a proposal to create the Caribbean Energy Security Treaty benefiting Latin American and Caribbean people
  11-08-2007
Petrocaribe makes headway to strengthen integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

People’s Minister of Energy and Petroleum and President of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) Rafael Ramírez, before the opening ceremony of the Second Petrocaribe Experts and Ministers Conference, reviewed the achievements attained during the two years of the integration initiative, stressing the progress made in infrastructure projects
  11-08-2007
ChÃˇvez: We are looking for a formula for liberation

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chávez described Petrocaribe as a mechanism to free Caribbean countries, during his speech at the opening ceremony of the Third Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and/or Government, in Simón Bolívar Hall, headquarters of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)
  11-08-2007
Ramírez: Energy Security Treaty means a quantum leap for Petrocaribe

People’s Minister of Energy and Petroleum and President of PDVSA Rafael Ramírez, as he was leaving the Second Petrocaribe Experts and Ministers Conference, said that the member countries’ relations went from oil supply to focusing on four major areas, namely oil, gas, electric power and alternative energy sources
  11-08-2007
The Caribbean builds a new path and geopolitical space for liberation

The Caribbean and South America shall not suffer in the future from any energy crisis. We have to build a new path and geopolitical space. That is Petrocaribe, an answer to the diagnosis of the region needs,” said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, during the opening of the Third Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of States and/or Government. This Summit is being held in the Simón Bolívar Hall in the La Campiña-headquarters of the People’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and PDVSA
  11-08-2007
President ChÃˇvez proposes oil refining areas in the Caribbean

During his speech, the Venezuelan ruler highlighted the fact that five joint ventures have been organized in the region and praised the achievements made through ALBA-Caribe Fund
  11-08-2007
President ChÃˇvez: We shall overcome electric power deficit in the region

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, alerted during the debates of the Third Petrocaribe Summit about the problem of electric power deficit affecting almost all the nations of Latin-America and the Caribbean. The deficit represents a problem due to the vulnerability and the backwardness affecting the full socioeconomic development of the region. He also assured Petrocaribe is a way to overcome all this
  10-08-2007
Prime Minister of Dominica praises achievements of Petrocaribe

In the framework of the Third Petrocaribe Summit, the Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit praised the progresses achieved by the signatory countries of the Agreement, on the search of the energy security of the region
 
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