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Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

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Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América
Coat of arms of Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Coat of arms
HeadquartersCaracas
Official languagesSpanish
English
Leaders
• Secretary General
Félix Plascencia
Area
• Total
2,513,337 km²
Population
• 2008 estimate
69,513,221


The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, also known as ALBA or ALBA–TCP, is an intergovernmental organization which advocates for the economic, social and political integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

This treaty integrates countries that are more aligned with the Bolivarian ideology and with the emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean.

History[edit | edit source]

The agreement was proposed by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and was first signed by Cuba in 2004. Bolivia under Evo Morales joined in 2006, Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega in 2007, Dominica in 2008, Honduras under Manuel Zelaya in 2008, Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2009, Ecuador under Rafael Correa in 2009, Saint Lucia in 2013, and Saint Kitts and Nevis and Grenada in 2014.

Honduras withdrew after the 2009 coup, and Ecuador withdrew in 2018.[1] Bolivia left in November 2019 after the OAS-backed coup, but rejoined following the 2020 Bolivian general election which returned the Movement for Socialism (MAS) to power with Luis Arce as president.

External links[edit | edit source]

ALBA (in Spanish)

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