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Understanding ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects of Alternative Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean

edited by

Asa K. Cusack

Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2018

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-908857-59-0 (.epub edition)
ISBN: 978-1-908857-23-1 (.mobi edition)

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Acknowledgements

As this volume emerged out of an international conference held at and supported by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), School of Advanced Study, University of London, I would like to thank in the first instance a number of the institutes staff. My gratitude in particular to Linda Newson and the wider panel of ILAS academics for making available the stipendiary fellowship from which this conference emerged; to Olga Jimnez for her typically calm and capable handling of the event itself; and to Chlo Pieters for keeping a lot of other wheels on.

Thanks also to the attendees and participants at that conference, many of whom went on to contribute chapters to this work. To the contributors more broadly, I have very much appreciated your cooperation throughout the process, where Id like to think we havent trodden on each others toes too often, despite the slow-slow-quick-quick-slow rhythm of the editorial foxtrot.

Fortunately, the School of Advanced Studys publications team were also gracious partners. Thanks in particular to Kerry Whitston for her help in the early stages of proposing and designing the publication; to Emily Morrell, Siobhan Leddy, and Jessica Davies Porter for all manner of things along the way; but especially to Valerie Hall, whose patient, prompt, and precise advice helped to counteract my clumsy footwork. My gratitude also to the two anonymous reviewers whose close attention and constructive criticism helped to improve this volume both as a whole and as individual chapters.

In more practical terms, thanks to the staff of the British Library particularly the rare books reading room for providing such a pleasant and propitious working environment, and to Gary and co. at Friends House for the high-grade fuel that powered much of its writing.

Finally, thank you also to the usual suspects whose ears I have certainly bent though hopefully not out of shape over the course of editing this volume: Gid, Noel, Barry, Conor, Mar, and Shay. Most of all, however, to Jen, both for supporting me and por haberme soportado : it meant and means a lot to me.

Abbreviations

ALBA/ALBA-TCP	Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Peoples Trade Agreement)
Albanisa	Alba de Nicaragua, S.A.
ALP	Antigua Labour Party
AMUNIC	Nicaraguan Municipalities Association
AP	Alliance of the Pacific
ATPDEA	Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act
BCV	Central Bank of Venezuela
BFS	Budgetary Finance System (Cuba)
BOA	authorised operating banks
BsF	Bolivares fuertes (Venezuelan currency)
CACM	Central American Common Market
CAFTADR	Dominican RepublicCentral America Free Trade Agreement
CAN	Community of Andean Nations
CARICOM	Caribbean Community
CEED	Centre for Strategic Defence Studies
CELAC	Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
CES	Communal Economic System (Venezuela)
CETREX	Centro de Trmites de las Exportaciones
CIFO	Centro de Investigacin y Formacin Obrera (Venezuela)
CEUI	Single State Importation Centre (Venezuela)
CLAP	Local Provision and Production Committees (Venezuela)
COSEP	Higher Council of Private Enterprise
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CSM	Council of Social Movements
DLP	Dominica Labour Party
DNP	Nicaraguan Petroleum Distributor
ECLAC	Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ELAM	Latin American Medical School (Cuba)
ESP	Enterprise of Social Property
FDI	foreign direct investment
FONDEMI	Fund for the Development of Microenterprises
FONDEN	National Development Fund (Venezuela)
FSLN	Sandinista National Liberation Front (Nicaragua)
FTAA	Free Trade Area of the Americas
GDP	gross domestic product
GSPS	Growth and Social Protection Strategy
HSA	Hemispheric Social Alliance
IFI	international financial institution
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INAPYMI	Institute for Development of Small and Medium-Sized Industry (Venezuela)
LAC	Latin America and the Caribbean
LAFTA/LAIA	Latin American Free Trade Association (later the Latin American Integration Association)
MAS	Movimiento al Socialismo (Bolivia)
Mercosur	Southern Common Market
MUD	Democratic Unity Roundtable (Venezuela)
NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement
NDP	New Democratic Party (St Vincent)
NGO	non-governmental organisation
OAS	Organization of American States
OBI	Open Budget Index
OPEC	Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
PAHO	Pan American Health Organization
PDVSA	Petrleos de Venezuela, S.A.
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