Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President Rafael Correa says he will not bring Ecuador into the Venezuelan-inspired Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas (Alba) “for the time being". Speaking on his weekly radio and television broadcast on 14 June, Correa said that he would wait to see whether Alba “consolidates its objectives a bit more". A day earlier the foreign ministry had revealed that Ecuador would not be joining Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Dominica in Alba but did not offer any explanation.