 the organization of solidarity with the people of asia, africa and latin america (organizaciÃ³n de solidaridad con los pueblos de asia, Ãfrica y amÃ©rica latina), abbreviated as ospaaal, is a cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights. it publishes the magazine tricontinental. the ospaaal was founded in havana in january 1966, after the tricontinental conference, a meeting of leftist delegates from guinea, the congo, south africa, angola, vietnam, syria, north korea, the palestine liberation organization, cuba, puerto rico, chile and the dominican republic. mehdi ben barka, the moroccan leader of the tricontinental conference, disappeared the year before. one of the main purposes of the organisation is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the third world; for example, ospaaal strongly supported hugo chÃ¡vez. social development, which the organization says is a human right, is a recurring theme in ospaaal publications. ==history and context==  the ospaaal was born out of the tricontinental conference in havana, which mehdi ben barka was preparing before his october 1965 assassination. the ospaa (organization for solidarity for the people of africa and asia) had gathered itself for the first time in cairo, egypt in 1957. 500 delegates from 35 countries represented their national liberation movements and parties rather than states. it was led by ismaÃ«l tourÃ©, the brother of ahmed sÃ©kou tourÃ©, president of guinea. ismaÃ«l tourÃ© presided the board responsible of the solidarity funds, assisted by two vice-chairmenâmehdi ben barka of morocco and chu tzu-chi of the people's republic of china. at that time aapso (africa asian people's solidarity organization) was debating the inclusion of cuba and the rest of the caribbean and latin america to the group, a question posed again in cairo in june 1961 by the new commission, the commission on neocolonialism, which was presided by ben barka. while the casablanca group, founded in 1961, gathered "progressive states" (egypt, ghana, guinea, mali, libya, and morocco), the ospaal was an organization of movements, which aimed at creating national economic development plans for the newly independent states and break national isolation through internationalism. in exile, ben barka resided there six months in 1964. [[amÃ­lca
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