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Have your say on Venezuela-CARICOM relations


President Chavez is pushing for closer relations with CARICOM states
Should the Caribbean sign on to the hemispheric integration project promoted by the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez?
Mr Chavez has proposed ALBA - the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas - as a counter to the US-led idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA.

A number of Caribbean leaders were expected at the sixth summit on the ALBA, being held in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, the weekend of January 25.

Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines were expected to be represented.

In February last year the three countries signed a joint statement supporting the general principles of ALBA, which was founded in 2004 by Venezuela and Cuba as an alternative to the FTAA.

But not all Caribbean countries are enamoured of President Chavez's ALBA nor his Petro-Caribe oil-on-concessionary-terms initiative.

For example Trinidad and Tobago has already indicated that it's firmly in the FTAA camp: it's lobbying to host the headquarters.

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