Speech of Osvaldo Martinez president of the Economical Affairs Comission of People's Power Assembly

Osvaldo Martinez, president of the Committee of Economic Affairs of the Cuban Parliament, described as impressive as the Revolution protected the people from the painful social impact of the global capitalist crisis, to intervene in the Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventh Legislature People's Power National Assembly.

Martinez highlighted as Cuba was off stage of the social disasters that occurred in developed and undeveloped countries, and argued that in exceptional circumstances the short increase of the Gross Domestic Product growth of 1.4 percent, from six planned should be assessed in the context of what happened in the world economy and especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Osvaldo Martinez stated that in the world the growth indicator will be negative, at around one percent. In Latin America countries have positive growth, including Cuba, are only the half.

The chief of the Economic Committee of the Cuban Parliament said that 2009 has been a tense and difficult year, but it was achieved little growth, remained the country's stability and advanced and social achievements did not give up.  

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), of which Cuba is a founding member, was strengthened and deepened the excellent relations with China, which showed its strength in facing the global crisis.  

The global impact, "he added could be synthesized in a figure between 250 and 300 million more poor people than in December 2008, no fewer than 50 million additional unemployed and an increase of 167 million hungry to reach 20 million thousand.  

In Latin America and Caribbean, said the volume of exports will decline 11 percent, its worst result in 72 years, imports will fall 14 percent, the lowest in 27 years. The ranks of the poor increased in the region of nine million and five million homeless, while the number of unemployed rose by 2.5 million to reach 18.4 million.  

Martinez considered as a probable death statistics dramatic year between 2009 and 2015-due to the effects of global crisis-of between 200 thousand and 400 thousand children up to five years of age, especially in Africa, means, reported that they would die in this period from 1.4 to 2.8 million children murdered by the capitalist crisis, as he spent no less than 12 trillion dollars to bail out banks and unsuccessful speculators deliver multimillion rewards failures.

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