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Santo Domingo, June 9 (RHC) The 11th Ibero-American Convention on Cooperatives kicked off Friday in Santo Domingo, with 240 delegates from seven countries, including Cuba, attending with representation from cooperatives and MSMEs from the public and private sectors. .
Julio Furcal, Deputy of the Dominican Parliament, welcomed the attendees on behalf of the National Council of Cooperatives, highlighting the educational work of the Latin American Cooperative Network (Relcoop), organizer of the event and recognized for its work in the academic and scientific field. the field.
Furcal, the association’s advocate in cooperatives, emphasized that cooperation “is a way of life, love, peace and a decent life.”
He said, “Cooperatives and their members as their drivers, are an essential foundation for the development of our societies.”
Furcal pointed to delegations from Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and the host country “You can’t overcome poverty if you don’t have the solidarity of the cooperatives.”
Cuba participates in the agreement with several cooperatives and small and medium enterprises (Mipymes), which earlier this week held a working round with Dominican entities with a social focus.
The event was attended by the Heroes of the Republic of Cuba, Ramon Labañino, Vice President of the National Association of Economists and Accountants, and Antonio Guerrero, in charge of the San Cristobal Travel Agency, of the Office of the City Historian of La Havana.
The president of Relcoop, Claudio Alberto Rivera, highlighted the results in the academic ranking, particularly in the training of the members of the cooperative, thanks to the network’s cooperation and integration agreements with the University of Santander in Mexico.
Just on this first day, the third graduation of the International Diploma course in Cooperatives, Management and Education, taught by this postgraduate center, took place.
Rivera noted that progress is also being made in strengthening work with organizations in the social solidarity economy sector, in particular with cooperatives.
For his part, Ramon Labanino highlighted the importance of the agreement in establishing relations for the benefit of peoples and invited the participants to the international meeting of economists on the problems of globalization and development, which will be held in Havana from September 14 to 17. next November.
The meeting in Punta Cana is looking at specialized visits, conferences, panel discussions and workshops that will allow the exchange of experiences and knowledge, as well as defining strategies to strengthen the solidarity sector in the economy and transforming cooperatives into a real way for the economic and social development of countries.
For Cuba, the model of cooperatives specializing in the production and marketing of clothing; Ecomadera, dedicated to working with plastic wood and construction cooperatives Sancof, Serconst.
And also the Apocoop project, led by the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), supported by Oxfam, ANEC and the San Cristobal Agency of the Office of the Historian of Havana, among others.
Tomorrow, the last day of the event, a session on leadership and social responsibility, among other activities, is scheduled. (fountain: Latin press).
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