Funes rules out incorporation into ALBA

[Bacchus39]

Funes rules out incorporation into ALBA

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/12/15/en_pol_esp_funes-rules-out-inco_15A3197211.shtml


Salvador President Mauricio Funes said on Tuesday that he would take "not a single step" to include his country in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) or the 21st Century Socialism heralded by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez, and defended his government's relationship with the United States as "political pragmatism."

"My government will give not a single step to incorporate Salvador into the ALBA or the 21st Century Socialism," Funes, the first leftwing president in the history of Salvador, told reporters, Efe quoted.

The ALBA was established in 2004 by Venezuela and Cuba. It was later joined by Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Honduras and some Caribbean islands.

Funes noted that he respected, but as a president he did not share, the decision adopted by his party, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in a regular convention recently held where they backed a call for the 5th Socialist International.

[Braulio]

1. Sounds reasonable

He's better following Lula's lead, rather than driving his country into ruin the way Chavez and Correa are doing, and the way Castro did. Got to be pragmatic, and get those nike factories going.