During his visit to Cuba, Presidents Chavez and Castro signed new cooperation agreements that would expand trade and cooperation between their two countries on fighting illiteracy in Latin America and stregthens medical care. He went on to explain that cooperation between the two nations would help to promote the Bolivarian Alterative for the Americas, (ALBA) an agreement that he referred to as the only option to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), “the neoliberal project that the United States wanted to impose upon our nations for so many years.” Richard Boucher, the spokesperson for the US State Department, reacted to the agreements signed between Cuba and Venezuela by saying, “Any attempt to emulate a Cuban model at a time of increasing global expansion, regional integration…