ALBA’s new members

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that St Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda and Ecuador will join the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, this week.



Chavez said the countries’ membership into the Latin America and Caribbean cooperative group will be commemorated at a summit in Caracas next Wednesday.



Currently, the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) is comprised of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras and Dominica.



President Chavez said the Alternative continues to grow and the nine new countries will only give it the strong and dynamic space to build a new project.