Shunning US, Honduras Joins ALBA
Honduras has become the latest Latin American country to join ALBA, the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas. ALBA was established as a counterweight to US-led trade agreements in Latin America. Honduran officials say founding member Venezuela has offered to double its foreign aid, dwarfing assistance from US-controlled bodies like the World Bank. The move marks a sign of further rejection of US influence in Latin America. In the 1980s, Honduras was the staging ground for the US-led effort to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Nicaragua is also an ALBA member, along with Cuba, Bolivia and Dominica.
8/27/2008
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Looking for descendants of Captain Samuel Douglass of Brookline, NH, his son Deacon Samuel Douglass of NH, and his son Roswell Douglass of NH and Lowell, MA. Do you happen to share that lineage? Warmly, Judi Marks
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