The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas

Abstract

The integration process of Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, best known as ALBA, due to its acronym in Spanish, was born in the context of a Latin America that fights for its own independency, in a region full of developing countries and with a common history of colonialism, which unites countries under similar conditions. If the origin of the integration is taken into account as a consequence of the union of the Bolivarian ideals between Venezuelan and Cuban leaders, it can be understood that ALBA’s nature is mostly political, however it is also economic and social. Therefore, the following text covers when the integration was created, the context in which it was created and the ideals which inspired it, as well as the different scopes it holds, the different stages it has gone through and the current situation it affronts.