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...“Maduro didn’t like him from the outset,” said Mariano de Alba, senior advocacy adviser at the International Crisis Group. “He was very close to Chávez but then started to lose relevance.”...
...Chávez may not be alive today....
...Other left wing countries in the region, such as Bolivia and Ecuador, which are also members of the ALBA alliance, have not suffered the same economic instability....
...Although the nationalist populist movement has working-class roots, Argentina was never interested in joining Chávez’s ALBA group of countries led by the region’s most radical leftwing leaders....
...Tweaking the nose of the US is almost part of Alba’s job description. Alba’s previous de facto leader was Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president who died in March....
...Chávez, after all, was only one of many to have recently given the region a more unified sense of itself. He was the driving force behind Alba, a leftwing group that includes Cuba, Ecuador and Bolivia....
...Mr Correa may now be trying to step into Chávez’s shoes. “One gets the impression from Mr Correa’s behaviour that sometimes he wants to out-Chávez Chávez,” said a Latin American diplomat....
...Like Bolivia, Ecuador is a member of the ALBA alliance of leftwing Latin American nations that is led by Mr Chávez....
..., especially if the cancer of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela proves to be terminal....
...Mexico the crowning piece of a regional jigsaw dominated by populist (to varying degrees) or leftist (depending on how you view them) presidents in Argentina and Brazil, plus the more ideological group of ALBA...
...Furthermore, if Cuba isn’t invited, then ALBA should boycott the Summit, where 34 heads of state are otherwise supposed to attend....
...important oil shipping lane, or how much Chávez might undermine international sanctions against Iran by providing fuel or cash to Islamic Republic....
...A subsidiary group, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (Alba), a club for the region’s leftwing regimes – Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua – had an impact, although it also seems to...
...The train was temporarily renamed the Alba Express in reference to the “Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas”, a regional trade pact being promoted by Castro and the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez....
...Honduras’ ultra-conservative elites met his decision last year to drag the country into the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (Alba), Mr Chávez’s political vehicle formed to undermine US...
..., Mr Chavez’s leftwing political club....
...ALBA currently embraces five countries: Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and the tiny Eastern Caribbean Island of Dominica, as well as Mr Chávez’s Venezuela....
...Honduras, for example, traditionally as pro-American as it gets, is this month set to join Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Dominica in the Venezuelan-led Alba trade and investment pact....
...The occasion was Honduras’ decision to join Alba, Mr Chávez’s vehicle to promote greater regional integration through social, political as well as economic ties rather than US-supported trade-based integration...
...On the first evening of my visit I turned on the television in my gloomy room at the Alba Hotel to find the burly president, clad in the red shirt favoured by his Bolivarian movement, waxing lyrical: “After...
...The former Hilton, which is closer to the now rather down-at-heel centre, has been renamed the Alba since being recovered by the state....
...It is even possible that an ”ALBA” bond – a capital raising exercise benefiting Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia as well as Venezuela – will be sold this year too....
...of Venezuela and the two-fold decision by Mr Ortega to join Alba, Chavez’s political gang of leftwing states, and to restore full diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba....
...TRIVELLI: Certainly on the record, Daniel Ortega actually went to Caracas to be on President Chávez’s show, was warmly embraced by Hugo Chávez, who said that he hoped Daniel Ortega would win these elections...
...Hugo Chávez....
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