| The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) is | | | | or other illegal activities? Well, you can answer that |
| now stating that it wants to set up a self clearing | | | | one yourself I believe. |
| system for trade and claims it has set up a "Regional | | | | Instead of coming clean ALBA blames capitalism and |
| Clearance Unitary System, the SUCRE, which includes | | | | the United States for their own failed states and leftist |
| a Common Unit of Account, a Clearance Chamber | | | | leadership. The group further states; |
| and a Single Reserve System." Hey that's all well and | | | | To face the serious effects of the global economic |
| good, but who can trust the nations that have joined | | | | crisis, we, the ALBA-TCP countries, have adopted |
| ALBA? | | | | innovative and transforming measures that seek real |
| Brazil is being nice to them, but does not wish to be | | | | alternatives to the inadequate international economic |
| associated, neither does Columbia or Peru, which both | | | | order, not to boost their failed institutions. Similarly, we |
| enjoy excellent economic trade with the United States, | | | | have encouraged the constitution of grand-national |
| nor Panama, which has become an International | | | | companies to satisfy the essential needs of our |
| Banking capital. So, who is a member of ALBA? | | | | peoples and establish fair and complementary trade |
| | | | mechanisms that leave behind the absurd logic of |
| 1. Nicaragua, which until now was cleaning up its act | | | | unbridled competition." |
| with regards to the narco-drug trade. | | | | It is not unbridled competition that has hurt Venezuela, |
| 2. Bolivia, which has been busy nationalizing foreign | | | | rather it is that Hugo Chavez has nationalized efficient |
| businesses, foreign investments. | | | | businesses, and now finds that socialism and his |
| 3. Venezuela, which has been busy funding FARC, and | | | | methodology is less efficient, thus, less profitable to |
| manipulating elections in Latin America. | | | | afford all he has promised his people. That plus the low |
| The question is why do these nations wish to make a | | | | oil prices, which when high made all his wet dreams |
| new system when there is a system already in place, | | | | come true, but that was due to more manipulation |
| one which is fair for all concerned and keeps track of | | | | from yet another cartel; OPEC. We need to ditch the |
| illegal transactions, money laundering from illegal drugs, | | | | hypocrisy of Hugo and Company. Think on this. |