PORT-AU-PRINCE, December 7 (PL).— The Fourth Cuba-CARICOM Summit, which is set to take place next December 8 and 9, 2011, was the subject of a radio program at the Kiskeya Radio Station in Haiti.

Radio host Veronica Dorcine Michel and Cuban diplomat official Carmen Maury talked about the ties between Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). They also spoke about the summit that is going to be held in Trinidad and Tobago in the coming days.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will be officially created on Saturday during the final session of the Summit of heads of State and Government of the region, gathered since December 2 in this capital with that purpose.

Defined by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the future great center for regional power of the 21st century, the high-level forum will approve today the Caracas Declaration, a document that will define the political budget of a bloc for integration, development and peace.

“If it works and is successful, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) could be regarded as the greatest event of the last 200 years of semi-independence in Latin America,” said President Raul Castro on Friday upon his arrival in Caracas, Venezuela, heading the Cuban delegation that will participate in the foundational meeting of this organization.

“For the first time in history, we are going to have an organization of our Americas,” the Cuban leader added.

The globalized world is engendering global crises. Many of these are sparked off by the great power circles that, in their voracious attempts at swallowing the whole of society, end up eating each other up. The chief axes of the capitalist system, in its neo-liberal imperialist stage, are to be found in financial capital. Capitalism is an all-embracing, excessive and amorphous system that is at once dehumanizing and chaotic. It lacks ideals and is aims only to engulf, own and control everything.

Neo-liberal capitalism has gradually divested States of their identities. Governments, in turn, have become mere police headquarters for the world’s main power centers, turning a deaf ear, willingly and not, to the interests of the majorities they supposedly represent. Scientific and technological breakthroughs result in the lay-off of millions of workers, technicians, intellectuals and professionals. Everything seems to indicate that people are superfluous and that Capital can and ought to be an end in and of itself. But we know that the bourgeoisie cannot exist without the working class, in the same way that slave-owning society needed slaves to subsist and the nobles of yesteryear depended on the work of serfs.

The Spanish and Russian edition of the book, specially prepared in honor of the 85 birth date of the Chief Commandant Fidel Castro Ruz, was presented at the Museum of Miniature Book of this capital city, informed diplomatic sources.

 The publication, exhibited in front of a numerous public, is titled "Fidel Castro Ruz: Líder eminente del pueblo cubano" (Fidel Castro Ruz: the eminent leader of the Cuban people).

Among the participants in this activities were employees of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry, as well as ambassadors of the diplomatic missions in Baku.