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BOLIVARIAN ALLIANCE FOR THE AMERICAS

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (or ALBA) is an international cooperation organization based on theidea of social, political, and economic integration between the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is associated with socialist and social democratic governments and is an attempt atregional economic integration based on a vision of social welfare and mutual economic aid, rather than trade liberization as with free trade agreements.
When it was launched in 2004, ALBA had twomember states, Venezuela and Cuba. Subsequently a number of other Latin American and Caribbean nations have entered into this Peoples' Trade Agreement (Spanish: Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos, or TCP)which aims to implement the principles of ALBA. 
The ALBA´s member nations are:  Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela. Atthe February 2012 summit, Suriname and Saint Lucia were admitted to ALBA as guest countries.
ALBA nations implemented in 2010 a new regional currency, the SUCRE. It was intended to be the commonvirtual currency and eventually a hard currency. On July 6, 2010, Venezuela and Ecuador conducted the first bilateral trade deal between two ALBA countries using the new trading currency, the Sucre,instead of the US dollar.
The Caricom member states which are currently using the Eastern Caribbean Dollar have all agreed to use the new proposed SUCRE as a common currency for electronic transactionsamongst ALBA members rather than the US dollar. These countries will not be issuing bills in SUCRE, it will instead be used for electronic payment, and each country can withdraw the equivalent in itsown currency.
The agreement was initially proposed by the government of Venezuela, led by Hugo Chávez, as an alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA or ALCA in Spanish) proposed by...
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