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FTAA: RIP or stuck in the mud?

Friday, April 29, 2005

FTAA: RIP or stuck in the mud?

By Dr Anthony T Bryan

Last week, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shook up hemispheric trade negotiators with the resonant statement that the FTAA is low priority for Brazil.

As he told a group of labour leaders: "For two years, FTAA has not been discussed in Brazil because we took it off the agenda."

The remark was sufficiently provocative that a Republican in the Florida Senate feels bolstered in his efforts to strip $525,000 in state funding for Florida FTAA, the group lobbying to have Miami named as the headquarters for the proposed FTAA Secretariat.

Since the Ministerial Meeting of November 2003 the FTAA process appears to have ground to a halt.
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http://www.thenassauguardian.com/business/343156786535123.php

You may remember how well _{Jeb Bush's} Florida did when they hosted the FTAA in Miami!

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