Title: What is the ALBA? | ALBA INFO
Headings: What is the ALBA?
What is the ALBA?
What is the ALBA and who supports it?
What are the roots of the ALBA?
What have been the practical implications of the ALBA ?
External Opposition
Internal Contradictions
Conclusion and The Literature
References

Content: (Photo: Tanks in the streets of Caracas during the ‘Caracazo’ of February 1989. The implementation of neoliberal policies led to a wave of protests and riots which were brutally suppressed by the state. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed by the police and military. From Bernardo Londoy on Flickr and reproduced under Creative Commons 2.0)
However, through the 90’s the balance of forces appeared to be changing as combative social movements and new political parties rose up to challenge the neoliberal state. In many countries governments were thrown out through social uprisings and new anti-neoliberal governments became established. This “pink tide” of new left or centre-left governments, and a revival of militant social movements, is the context in which the ALBA was founded. What have been the practical implications of the ALBA ? In terms of immediate impact the ALBA is often credited as derailing the proposed, and now abandoned, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA/ALCA). The FTAA was a proposed free trade agreement, spearheaded by the US government, which sought to create a hemispheric wide free trade area.