President Zelaya has increasingly come under attack by the conservative forces in Honduras for his growing relationship with the ALBA countries, and particularly Venezuela and President Chávez. Many believe the coup has been executed as a method of ensuring Honduras does not continue to unify with the more leftist and socialist countries in Latin America,writes Eva Golinger,about the US backed military coup in Honduras.
Critical examination of the international collaboration scheme ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas), which is being led by Venezuelans, in the context for the struggle for an emancipatory democracy and an alternative model of development. Paper originally presented at the Conference on “The Changing Face of Global Development Finance—Impacts and implications for aid, development, the South and the Bretton Woods Institutions,” Halifax Initiative, Ottawa, Canada, February 1-2, 2008.