[Cronos]

If you say the WTO is socialist or that the FTAA is socialists, then explain WHY ALL SOCIALISTS IN BRAZIL, ETC. CALL THE WTO AND NAFTA AND FTAA CAPITALIST PLOTS? Why do they decry them as tools of the US? Why do they consider them a threat to their socialist states? And why does the US still use them? Because they're good for capitalism and by extension, they're good for the USA

[hedgetrimmer]

Because they are losing their sovereignty to the OAS for one reason.

Since its adoption, the Democratic Charter has been formally invoked in dealing with the alteration of constitutional order in Venezuela that occurred in April, 2002 and to send a mission to Venezuela headed by OAS Secretary General Gaviria to facilitate national dialogue and to broker consensus solutions to the political impasse and polarization that threaten democracy in Venezuela. The United States has fully supported the important work of the OAS in Venezuela in fulfilling the objectives laid out in OAS Permanent Council Resolution 883 to bring about a “ peaceful, democratic, constitutional, and electoral solution” to the political stalemate. What is important now is that the international community, led by the OAS, ensure that the dialogue table agreement signed last week is implemented, and that resolution 833 is carried out to its conclusion.

Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States
Remarks to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington, DC
June 3, 2003