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Who is involved making the FTAA a reality?


U.S. Governor of Florida Jeb Bush speaks to Costa Rican businessmen at the Marriot Hotel in San Jose, February 17, 2004. Bush is traveling in Central America to promote commercial exchanges between the region and the state of Florida, and to promote the city of Miami as a regional headquarters of the FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas) pact. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

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Who are the groups "negotiating" the "free trade" agreements in the Western Hemisphere that are wreaking so much havoc in the US economy?

The Tripartite Committee, which consists of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

So free trade in the western hemisphere is not negotiated by our congress and constitutional authorities but by the United Nations. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that what is being negotiated is not free trade? How can anyone on this forum argue that "free trade" is good for America, when the interests of America are not considered at all in any of the "free trade" agreements that have created outsourcing, lowered the natural disinclination of a free people to trade with a nation that produces goods by slave labor, sold out Constitutional authority of our Congress to business councils and marxist federations of states, and given negotiating authority for US trade agreements to our arch enemy, the organization that despises everything American but our US taxpayer dollars, the United Nations?