Where does ALBA stand and how is it different from other regional integration projects?
The subcontinents general dividing line is not between a supposedly good left and a bad left. This is a right-wing vision intended to split the progressive movement in the continent in order to co-opt more moderate governments. The fundamental dividing line lies between the countries that have already signed free-trade agreements with the US (Mexico and Chile; Colombia and Peru are well-advanced in the process) thus jeopardizing both their future and any possibility of managing upcoming events under a radically unequal relationship with the world’s largest imperial power and the countries that favour regional integration. Among these are ones that, despite this option, maintain the neo-liberal economic model such as Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and the ones that have opted out of it Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador. This is a second front centred on Mercosul [2] and is also contributing to a multipolar world that is weakening the unipolar US hegemony. This process is happening in
