Integration of Venezuela and agreements with Cuba, challenges of Mercosur to UNITED STATES

The construction of wastebaskets in the frontier of Uruguay and Argentina, among the topics defiles.

STELLA CALLONI CORRESPONDENT

Buenos Aires, July 18. The governments of the countries that integrate the Market Common of the South (Mercosur) attribute a great importance to the Presidential next Summit - that will be carried out in the city of Córdoba, capital of the county of the same name, the days 20 and 21 of this month - for the participation of Venezuela like new partner and the agreements that will be signed with Cuba that they are a challenge to the blockade that United States maintain on that country for almost half century.

Among other steps that will be given this mark what many call the "resurrection" of Mercosur here that of being summed up the Cuban president's presence Fidel special Castro-guest to the event - it will mark the new turn in the integration process. It is pointed out here that most of the governments of the region maintain a friendly relationship with the Cuban government, something unpublished in the last decades.

Castro, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales also signed at the end of passed April an Agreement for the construction of Alternative Bolivariana for the Towns of Our America (ALBA) and the Treaties of Trade among the Towns of the three countries, with a strong support to the government from Bolivia, one of the rich countries in resources, worse poorer in the continent.

The technical groups of Mercosur their meetings already began that will continue tomorrow with the chancellors of the five associates: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela and Paraguay, to finish the documentation to debate in the Summit and to advance steps on the consents and common positions before the topics of more conflict.

Among these it is that of the construction of two companies producers of cellulose (wastebaskets) pasta in the Uruguayan coast of a river that shares with Argentina, what determined a recent failure of the Court of Justice of The Hague that although he/she didn't give place to the local application of stopping the construction of this plants like a preventive measure, it placed Uruguay in the obligation of assuring the minimum contamination.

Another burning topic is that of the prices of the gas that Argentina sells Chile that caused some verbal crossings in the last days. Of course that it is topic of coteries the impasse that one lives in Mexico in connection with the true results of the electoral process of passed refuted July 2 and strongly questioned, even for the massive presence in the streets of that country.

As long as Fidel Castro who has always wanted to know Córdoba where Ernesto lived Che Guevara, it could participate together with Morales and Chávez in massive foreseen acts as much in the University as in the stadium mundialista Chateau Careers.