The I Latin American and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development (CALC) was a summit of heads

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n and

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countries held on 16–17 December 2008 in Costa do Sauipe,

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. It was organized at the initiative of the Lula administration with the goal of building cooperation mechanism with greater autonomy from the United States. Most heads of state from Latin America and the Caribbean states attended, with the exception of

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and

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. The summit finished with the signing of the ''Bahia Declaration'', a common agenda establishing the following priorities: cooperation between mechanism of regional and subregional integration, the

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, energy, infrastructures, social development and eradication of hunger and poverty,

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promotion,

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and Latin America and Caribbean projection. The heads of state summit was followed by a ministerial summit in November 2009 in

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to prepare an action plan to develop the agenda agreed in the I CALC summit. The II CALC summit took place in February 2010, together with the XXI Rio Summit, as part of the Latin American and Caribbean Unity Summit.

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