Posted on 03/21/2005 8:33:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY - Mexico, the United States and Canada will announce a special alliance to improve security while protecting the flow of trade across their borders, a Mexican official said Monday.
The alliance represents "a big step" toward promoting economic development in the three countries, which belong to the North American Free Trade Agreement, and making their markets more competitive with Europe and Asia, Geronimo Gutierrez, Mexico's deputy secretary for North America, told reporters.
President Vicente Fox (news - web sites) also hopes to broach immigration reform during Wednesday's meeting in Waco, Texas, although he has said previously that chances of its passage in the United States are slim.
Bush, Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin were expected to sign an accord Wednesday committing the three countries to work together on establishing specific actions aimed at achieving the alliance's goals, Gutierrez said.
Such actions might include simplifying regulations, facilitating the movement of business people across borders, increasing cooperation in technology, energy and telecommunications, Gutierrez said.
The new northern alliance will promote prosperity, security and quality of life, Gutierrez said.
"We are looking for an adequate balance between the concerns about security ... and the legitimate flow of goods and services," he said.
Fox and Bush also were likely to discuss drug trafficking in Mexico and the country's recent promise to pay off a long-standing water debt to U.S. farmers across the border, he said.
The Mexico-U.S. border is one of the world's most dynamic, with the daily exchange of about $750 million in commerce and the crossing of at least 1 million people.
The Mexican president will arrive at a time of chilled relations, following a series of statements from the United States expressing concern about Mexican security, human rights, drug trafficking and the potential for political instability during next year's presidential elections.
Fox has bristled at the reports, calling at least some of them inappropriate and unrealistic.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) tried to smooth over some of the tension during a visit to Mexico City earlier this month, but CIA (news - web sites) Director Porter Goss on Thursday reiterated his
No, I'm just looking for candidates who have necks in search of a noose.
Their collectivist ideology called sustainable development is one leg of this trade agreement and the US obligates itself to the UN when it ratifies treaties that require sustainable development policies be implemented as a condition of the trade agreement or treaty.
Two of those sustainable development groups in L.A. are Sustain L.A. and Mobility 21 - Smart Growth Partnership: Growing a Smarter Los Angeles
Speaking of growing a smarter Los Angeles, a few weeks ago the mayor announced that a little over 50% percent of the workers in L.A. over the age of sixteen are functional illiterates. We're screwed.
Chapter 11 provisions of NAFTA ...grant foreign corporations and producers greater rights than U.S. citizens
Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade (CCFT) are using NAFTA’s Chapter 11 to try to place pressure on the United States’ independent judicial system
Why should foreign entities like CCFT be allowed to use an international tribunal of NAFTA to pressure our courts to undermine the health and safety standards of the U.S. consumers?
Foreign entities should not have the ability to attack U.S. standards.
Chapter 11 is one of the many reasons that NAFTA is a poor model for future trade agreements such as CAFTA
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It's another step down the road.. deny it all ya want, but when it gets here, don't say ya didn't hear about it.
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 democratically elected Western Hemisphere nations, is intended to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. It is an effort to unite the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade agreement comprising 800 million consumers with a combined gross domestic product of $14 trillion.
Florida FTAA, Inc. is the private-public entity led by Governor Jeb Bush, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and officials throughout the State of Florida with the mission that Miami, Florida become the site of the Permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Florida FTAA is chaired by Ambassador Charles E. Cobb, Jr. and managed by President Jorge L. Arrizurieta. The administrative offices are located at the Biltmore Hotel Conference Center of the Americas in Coral Gables, Florida.
Jeb is just like his daddy and Dubya. Lovers of the UN and globalizm. America is so DOOMED it's pitiful. By the time these idiots realize what they have done, it will be too late. We will NEVER recover from this.
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