ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, is an intergovernmental organization of left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean states, proposed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez and by Cuba's Fidel Castro as an alternative to the US-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas. It promotes cooperation based on solidarity rather than competition, with arrangements such as the exchange of Venezuelan oil for Cuban doctors and teachers. Its members have included Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and several Caribbean island states, while Ecuador left in 2018. Its influence declined with Venezuela's economic crisis and with changes of government in several of the member states.
Before and after
- 14 March 2005Anti-Secession Law
- from 22 March 2005 to 11 April 2005Tulip Revolution
- from 24 March 2005 to 16 May 2013Premiere of The Office
- 27 March 2005Premiere of Grey's Anatomy
- April 2005Founding of ALBA
- 2 April 2005Death of John Paul II
- 8 April 2005Creation of Kubuntu
- 1 May 2005Discovery of Daphnis
- 15 May 2005Discovery of Nix
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