Latin American ALBA Alliance Claims Success in Raising Standards When Other Efforts Around the Globe Have Stalled

Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) based on a 2004 agreement between Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro claims success on several fronts. Member nations
Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela have seen a reduction in poverty and improvements in literacy and infant mortality according to Venezuelan sociologist Maria Paez Victor. ALBA remains committed to a platform of regionalism and social reform and opposition to free trade agendas.

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