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"Chavez, Castro Political Alliance Grows With Bolivian Entry"
By Howard Williams
CNSNews.com Correspondent
May 01, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro added a third amigo to their dream of a broad-based alliance of nationalist Latin American governments this weekend with the signing of a treaty with Bolivia to join the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
The agreement, signed in Havana during a visit to the Cuban capital by Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, came on the first anniversary of the launching of the ALBA idea by Chavez and Castro.
The buzz in Havana was that ALBA has now become a viable economic model to fend off the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade of the Americas (FAA) plan, which critics claim would unfairly benefit of American-owned multinationals and threaten Latin American economic development.
Although not mentioned publicly, Cuban officials were privately predicting that Peru would be the next member of ALBA, following the May 28 presidential run-off election between nationalist Ollanta Humala and socialist Alan Garcia.
Both men have opposed a U.S.-Peru free trade agreement, which was ratified last month in the midst of the ongoing election campaign."
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