ALBA

ALBA Declaration of Cumana

28 April 2009

Cumana, Venezuela We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons: The Declaration does not provide answers to the Global Economic Crisis, even though this crisis constitutes the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the last decades and is the most serious threat of the current (...)

Latin America: In support of regional integration and a partial delinking from the world capitalist market

We need to learn the lessons of the 20th century in order to apply them at the beginning of the 21st century

20 October 2008

Paper presented in Caracas on October 8, 2008 at the School of Planning for the international seminar titled “Responses from the South to the World Economic Crisis”. The other speakers on the panel were: Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Haiman El Troudi, Minister of Planning (Venezuela), Claudio Katz, Economist of the Left (Argentina) and Pedro Paez, Minister of Economic Coordination (Ecuador). The entire conference was broadcast live by Venezuelan state (...)

Final declaration of the International Political Economy Conference

Responses from the South to the Global Economic Crisis

20 October 2008

Caracas - October 11, 2008 Academics and researchers from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela participated in the International Political Economy Conference: Responses from the South to the Global Economic Crisis, held in Caracas October 8-11, 2008. The conference stimulated a wide-ranging debate on the current economic and financial health of (...)

A Future for the Bank of the South ?

12 September 2008

Interviewed by Politis (French weekly paper) September 2008. Q.1. The implementation of the Bank of the South, which should have been effective 60 days after its foundation by seven South American countries last December, is running late. What is the current situation ? Are there pressures aiming at jeopardising the project? You are right: 9 months have now elapsed since the heads of states of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela signed the founding act (...)

Alternative financing for development: Venezuela and ALBA

22 May 2008

If the goal is development — best defined as sovereign democratic social transformation — then we must not speak of making the present "aid" modalities more effective, but of substituting present day aid and the system in which it unfolds. One begins by questioning the very nature of the larger international financial architecture, what it stands for, and who benefits primarily from it. "Development aid" as practiced by the North is part of a system that generates deepening inequality and (...)