Latin American economic summit in Cuba

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The leaders of several Latin American nations converged on Havana for a two day summit of the Bolivian Alliance for the Peoples of America (in Spanish, ‘ALBA’). BBC’s Cuba correspondent Michael Voss joins us with a report on how this Latin American union is dealing with a global economic crisis.

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