Word: chile
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...city's seaport and airport: perishables from Latin America, electronics from the Far East, perfumes and alcohol from Europe. Going out are the goods -- everything from bulldozers to blenders -- that Latin America needs to rebuild its infrastructure after the dormant decade of the '80s. In return, Central America, Chile and Brazil send about 350,000 tons of refrigerated produce annually to Miami. The airport runs the largest cut-flower operation in the world, daily processing 15,000 boxes of buds from south of the border...
...Miami's grand scheme for the future. The trade sector is, to a large extent, based on glorified mom-and-pop businesses offering low-paying service jobs. "Miami is not the capital of Latin America," German Consul General Klaus Sommer says dismissively. "The Germans have billions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile. You don't need an agent sitting in Miami...
...undertaken difficult and unpopular reforms to follow the liberalization trends strongly advocated and promoted by the United States. NAFTA has a special access clause which allows other countries of the hemisphere to join the free trade area if they are willing to lower their tariffs and other barriers accordingly. Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia are potential candidates that could expand the North American Free Trade Area all the way down to the Southern Cone. President Salinas has said that the fate of the free trade accord has become a fundamental test of American relations not only with Mexico but throughout...
This time out, these two old friends are sailing east across the Pacific Ocean toward the coast of South America. In his role as an undercover agent, Maturin hopes to encourage nascent nationalists in Peru and Chile to declare independence from Spain. Success in this mission would achieve two goals that Maturin, half-Irish, half-Catalan, passionately desires: a blow to the Spanish oppressors of Catalonia and a setback for Napoleon, since the newly liberated countries would presumably owe allegiance to Britain rather than France for their freedom...
...also reflected growing irritation in London and Washington with Beijing's toughened posture on a variety of issues ranging from Hong Kong's future to human rights to nuclear proliferation. U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recently described China as a "backlash," or antidemocratic, state like Iran, Iraq or Chile under General Augusto Pinochet. So concerned is the Clinton Administration with the deteriorating relationship that Secretary of State Warren Christopher has launched a high-level effort to turn things around, beginning with the dispatch to Beijing this week of John Shattuck, the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...