AZZI Diego

diegoazzi@yahoo.com.br

Diego Azzi is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where he is currently completing his master’s thesis, a study of changes in the political culture of activism. He graduated from the University of São Paulo in 2004.

ALBA Venezuela’s answer to free trade : the Bolivarian alternative for the Americas

> Occasional Paper n°3, Focus on the Global South and Hemispherical Social Alliance, October 2006

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) represents the first attempt at regional integration that is not based primarily on trade liberalization but on a new vision of social welfare and equity. Alternatives are often either theoretical to the point of impracticality, or so micro that scaling up presents huge challenges. ALBA is both large-scale and, to an increasing degree, taking concrete shape. While many aspects of the project are still unrealized or only in the process of (...) read

date of on-line publication : 12 January 2007