Abstract

DIAZ MARTINEZ, Karla. Social movements and regional integration: the articulation of social movements toward ALBA. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.16, pp.157-185. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2013.16.76.

ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas) is a regional integration entity created as an alternative to the US-proposed FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas, ALCA in Spanish). ALBA inaugurates a period that has been referred to as post-neoliberal regionalism. Since its origin, ALBA has been accompanied by social movements with an anti-imperialistic and anti-neoliberal stance. ALBA, itself, generated a social entity: the Social Movements Council. However, in a parallel and autonomous way, the social movements created the Articulation of Social Movements toward ALBA. This article describes the characteristics of this entity for social articulation based on theoretical proposals developed in Latin America, and presents a balance of the potentialities and challenges of social movements in Latin America and their incidence in regional integration.

Keywords : regional integration; autonomy; participatory democracy; Mercosur.

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