For 20 years, the Bolivarian Alliance for The Peoples of our America - Peoples' Trade Treaty, ALBA-TCP, has benefited millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean with several social programs. Let's review some of its achievements in the framework of its anniversary. teleSUR
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00:00And for 20 years, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America's People's Trade
00:09Treaty, ALBA-TCP, has benefited millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean
00:13with several social programs.
00:15Let's review some of its achievements in the framework of its anniversary.
00:21In education, ALBA-TCP reached a historic milestone by making more than 4,980,000 people
00:27in Latin American literate.
00:30Countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua were declared illiteracy-free territories.
00:36With the creation of Misión Milagro in 2004, promoted by commanders Hugo Chávez and Fidel
00:41Castro, over 7 million people in the region have had free treatment for ocular pathologies,
00:46while 40 million have received corrective lenses for vision.
00:50Central America is among the ones that benefit from Misión Milagro, with almost half a million
00:54people who had surgery.
00:5611,900 Mexicans also benefit from this program.
01:00In the Caribbean, more than 1,300,000 people underwent eye surgery.
01:06In South America, over 4,200,000 citizens underwent surgery for eye conditions.
01:13The creation of Pedro Caribe in 2004 within the framework of ALBA-TCP led to multilateral
01:18cooperation between Caribbean countries and Venezuela, an alliance that allowed the purchase
01:22of Venezuelan oil under preferential payment conditions and the financing for the construction
01:27of tankers, oil pipelines, and hydropower plants in the Caribbean.
01:31Given the suspension of Pedro Caribe in 2019 due to U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, ALBA-TCP
01:37member countries pledged a developed plan to relaunch this international bloc.
01:41During two decades, the Bolivarian alliance has not only developed social programs in
01:46the areas of health, education, and energy, but has also created opportunities for cooperation
01:50in sports and more than 10,000 athletes have participated in several ALBA-TCP games.