You're forgetting one thing.
There has been a plan since the early 1990's to integrate the entire hemisphere economically, in infrastructure and socially. In other words dissolve borders and make the entire western hemisphere a giant "trade bloc" like the EU.
If you check out our universities, they have been theorizing and informing our government ways this can be done since the 90's.
If you check out some of the international organizations like the Summit of the Americas, the OAS, the Inter-American Development Bank and UNCTAD, you will see this is a very much planned outcome for the Americas.
US STATE Department again.
Western Hemispheric Integration University of Iowa, not the New American as you would have everyone believe.
The 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas initiated the uniting of the southern and northern halves of the Americas University of Florida
Industry Objectives for Hemispheric Integration the Summit of the Americas provide nothing less than the comprehensive framework and organizing principles for the social, economic and political relations among the community of nations of the hemisphere in the XXI century.
The FTAA is not just one more initiative among the 23 initiatives launched in the Summit of the Americas. It is the pillar, the foundation of the grand project of hemispheric integration contained in the Summit vision