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NAFTA AND LATIN AMERICA

NAFTA's first three years NAFTA's first three years USIS File, July 1997, 17p

This file offers excerpts or comments on three recent reports on the effects of NAFTA: President Clinton s report to Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) report and "A Latino Review on President Clinton's NAFTA package."

Latin America - Free Trade Area of the Americas

USIS File , May 1998, 25 p

U.S. trade with Latin America is burgeoning. The growth in intra-regional trade has deepened regional cooperation and economic integration. Negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)were officially launched in Santiago last April.

The Border

Business Week, May 12, 1997, pp 64-74

"One of North America s hottest growth zones is blossoming where Mexico and the U.S. meet. A quirk of the global economy, it is also -- for better or worse -- a world unto itself. This is where shantytowns sprawl within a 15-minute drive of luxury homes and swimming pools, where Mexican executives bow Asian-style, and where factories seem to sprout in the scrub overnight, nurtured by a $150 billion economy."

The Case for Mexico's Rescue

De Long, Bradford and Christopher; Robinson, Sherman Foreign Affairs, May/June 1996, pp. 8-15

"The U.S. led effort to revive the peso staved off a Great Depression in Mexico. The Mexican economy is turning the corner and paying off its debt to the United States. Mexico was not broke last year, it faced a liquidity crisis. Clinton's action ensured that economic reform in Mexico and other developing nations - continues."

NAFTA at Three -- A Progress Report

Sidney Weintraub (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Sidney Weintraub (Center for Strategic and International Studies) USIS, May 1997"NAFTA is the most significant agreement between the United States and Mexico in this century, and a number of conclusions can be reached based on the experience of the past three years."

CENTRAL AMERICA

-- U.S. and the Caribbean in the New Millenium: what's the agenda? Hearing, May 17, 2000.U.S. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on theWestern Hemisphere.http://www.house.gov/international_relations/wh/uscarib/uscarib.htmlDr. Anthony T. Bryan, Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at theUniversity of Miami North-South Center:"Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to testify before this Hearing.I have been asked to assess the current economic and political conditionsfacing the Caribbean; the priorities and challenges for these nations; andthe role that the United States could or should play in helping this regionto meet those priorities and challenges."(The Hearing also contains testimony by Georges A. Fauriol, Director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.)-- Mexico-U.S. Relations: issues for the 106th Congress. Issue Brief. April 24, 2000.Storrs, K. Larry.U.S. Congressional Research Service. (CRS Issue Brief IB10047)http://www.cnie.org/nle/inter-28.html"SUMMARYThe United States and Mexico have a special relationship under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which removes trade and investment barriers between the countries. The relationship has been strengthened by presidential visits, including President Clinton's February 1999 trip to Mexico and President Zedillo's upcoming May 23 trip to Washington, and by regular contacts between cabinet-level officials. Major issues of concern to Congress are trade, immigration, drug trafficking, and political rights."

Le département d'Etat américain a rendu publics 38 documents concernant les relations entre le gouvernement des Etats-Unis et l'ancien chef des services secretspéruviens, Vladimiro Montesinos, accusé de blanchiment d'argent, de trafic d'armes et d'extorsion de fonds. http://usembassy.state.gov/lima/wwwhclass.html  Les archives de la sécurité nationale (université George-Washington) publient 41 documents "déclassifiés" détaillant le rôle de Vladimiro Montesinos à la tête des escadrons de la mort. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB64/