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The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA in Spanish) is a project to counteract the US-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Born out of

Single currency a step closer for ALBA nations
14-Dec-2009     Global Times
The creation of a regional currency among Latin American countries drew closer over the weekend as Cuba agreed to pay for a shipment of Venezuelan rice in sucres – the new currency.
The military dollar v. Alba’s humanism
17-Nov-2009     Argenpress
The seventh Alba Summit reflects the profound contrast between imperialism that is wasting away and the healthy development of countries with more progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Seventh ALBA Summit prioritises the planet and developing nations
20-Oct-2009     Venezuelanalysis
ALBA countries signed an agreement to implement the common currency "Sucre" (Unified System of Compensation of Reciprocal Payments). The point of the new currency is to use it instead of the US dollar for commercial exchange between member countries.
ALBA Alimentos to dodge food crisis
19-Oct-2009     Inside Costa Rica
ALBA Alimentos will emerge as a grand national project aimed at fighting the regional food crisis, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
ALBA strengthens trade alliance, ratifies struggle against the “empire”
18-Oct-2009     LAHT
The 7th Summit of the ALBA approved new steps for strengthening its model of “just and complementary trade” and ratified its struggle against “threats from the empire”
Chavez-led bloc plans to create agriculture, mining businesses
18-Oct-2009     Bloomberg
The Alba trade bloc, led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, agreed to create regional mining and agriculture businesses as the group concluded a second day of talks in Bolivia.
Learning from ALBA and the Bank of the South: Challenges and Possibilities
7-Sep-2009     Monthly Review
Although the crisis is indeed delegitimizing capitalism as an engine of “progress,” the weakening global economy is greatly complicating, if not weakening, efforts to advance ALBA as well as the Bank of the South.
Ecuador shakes up international fora
6-Aug-2009     ICTSD
Exiting ICSID and joining ALBA and UNASUR,along with the customs restrictions it applied on its CAN neighbours, are the recent measures that have been taken by the government of Ecuador to demonstrate that there is an alternative trade policy.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Democracy Now!
30-Jun-2009     DN!
"I reiterate, we’re not negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union."
Venezuela and ALBA promote “new climate” in Summit of the Americas
23-Apr-2009     Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela and the countries of the Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas (ALBA) decided not to sign the final document of the Summit of the Americas held on April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago, saying it excluded Cuba and offered no viable solution to the current economic crisis.