Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas

The Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas is an anti-American international organization, founded by late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez justified that the Free Trade Area of the Americas (ALCA) is an "instrument of imperialism".

Members

The biggest part of the members of ALBA are leftist socialist states:

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bolivia
• Dominica
• Ecuador
• Cuba
• Nicaragua
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Venezuela

Observer members are:

• Grenada
• Haiti
• Paraguay
• St. Lucia
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Iran

Honduras was also a member, but after the electoral victory of the conservative National Party of Honduras, it left the organization.