Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

7 The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA-TCP

Alternatives to the food and energy crises

Maribel Aponte-García

 

Introduction

Latin America and the Caribbean witnesses the configuration of what this chapter will denominate as ‘New Strategic Regionalism’. This process emerged at the beginning of the 21st century in the form of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Agreement (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América – Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos – ALBA-TCP) which, in early 2012, comprised eight members, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela. However, at the ALBA-TCP Summit of 4–5 February 2012 in Caracas, Venezuela, ...