At the end of last month, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela stood before a crowd of Honduran onlookers in Tegucigalpa and said: “You have just secured all the energy you need ... for at least the next 100 years.”
The occasion was Honduras’ decision to join Alba, Mr Chávez’s vehicle to promote greater regional integration through social, political as well as economic ties rather than US-supported trade-based integration.
