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Panama, Apr 18 (Prensa Latina) Panama President Martin Torrijos opens Friday the 27th plenary session of the Permanent Conference of Latin American and Caribbean Political Parties (COPPPAL).
The aim of the meeting, to be run until Saturday, is to analyze urgent regional problems like poverty and energy crisis, organizers told Prensa Latina.
Torrijos is one of the vice presidents of the organization and
general secretary of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD).
Speeches by the COPPPAL president, Argentinean Peron Senator
Antonio Cafiero and PRD general assistant secretary Juan Carlos
Navarro, and the delivery of the Luis Donaldo Colosio Latin American
Merit Order to Tomas Borges, from the Sandinista Front for National
Liberation of Nicaragua are included in the agenda.
Also on the list are the Colombia military attack on Ecuador, the independence of Puerto Rico and Netherlands Antilles, social justice, and the Latin American role in the new world context.

A resolution of solidarity with five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters
unfairly imprisoned in United States since 1998 and condemned to long sentences will be also tackled in this event.