Three more
countries join ALBA
CARACAS, June 21.— Ecuador, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda are to join the
ALBA bloc (Bolivarian Alternative for Our America)
this week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said
today.
Chávez
noted that ALBA is continuing to grow, and now nine
countries belong to this space for building a new
project, which, although it is not the only one, has
a stronger and more dynamic core.
According to previous reports, an extraordinary
ALBA summit is scheduled for June 24 in the
Venezuelan state of Carabobo, about 130 km west of
Caracas, coinciding with the anniversary of the
historic 1821 battle that sealed Venezuela’s
independence from Spain.
The bloc, which includes Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, is based on the
concept of cooperation and complementariness, taking
into account the asymmetries of member countries.
