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ALBA : dumping theory, rediscovering humanity

by toni solo

The deep revolutionary change the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) has contributed to human progress is its insistence on the moral dimension of economic policy. No capitalist framework would have been able to develop a commitment to accessible credit, health and education programmes like Mission Miracle (eye-care) or Yes I Can (literacy), or to complement energy security programmes with measures to promote food security. In doing this, the ALBA strategists have abandoned the anti-humanitarian capitalist model and recovered humanism's political and moral bases.

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