In his closing statement at the III Anti-Imperialist Congress against Neoliberalism held in Cuba Sunday, Nicolas Maduro said that people from across the region are rising against "savage capitalism" especially the neoliberal model pushed by the International Monetary Fund. 

Venezuelan leader said: "It was Cuba that summoned the world to debate, study and unmask the policies of financial domination of the International Monetary Fund. Cuba occupies a primordial role for the unity of the peoples."

Stating that although neoliberalism seems to have taken the reins in Latin America, he said: " It is exciting to observe the Chilean people rising against a constitution forged by the Pinochet’s dictatorship. There is a general insurgency of the people against the model of exclusion, privatization, impoverishment, the individualism of the savage neoliberal capitalism of the International Monetary Fund."

"In Venezuela, an alternative project to neoliberalism will never be reversed," the president said and added that the Bolivarian Revolution has emerged as an early response to demonstrate that a society could be built that guarantees social rights to its people. (ILKHA)