Word: nafta
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Depending on whom you talk to, the Trans-Texas Corridor is either an innovative solution to the U.S.'s overcrowded highway system or a Texas-size boondoggle. Backers claim that such corridors are needed to divert road and rail traffic--NAFTA truckers driving up from Mexico, railcars of Chinese goods from Western ports, hazardous cargoes of all kinds--from congested urban areas. Buying land for the system now, decades before it's needed, would cut acquisition costs and might entice businesses to relocate inside the corridors. T. Boone Pickens could ship his West Texas water across the state in pipelines...
...comes...after a period in the 1990s when U.S.-Mexican relations substantially strengthened with NAFTA and our involvement in responding to the financial crisis and with closer cooperation with drug issues,” Summers said, but he added that “the last few years have not been easy particularly because of strains of immigration issues after September 11th...
...EZLN was not militarily crushed as other movements had been in Mexico due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) agreements that were in U.S. Congress for debate during the attacks. The international media was scrutinizing Mexico to find any issues that might compromise the free trade agreements when the EZLN appeared, protest flier in hand. In order to achieve the passage of the NAFTA agreements, the government had to take this group very seriously, and it did. One of the many concessions given to the group was an assortment of autonomous regions placed under EZLN control. Usually consisting...
...He’s for the war and wants to stay in Iraq, he toes the Sharon party line, he’s for corporate globalization, the WTO and NAFTA, and he voted for the PATRIOT Act—the greatest single assault on civil liberties in the country’s history,” Nader said...
...He’s for the war and wants to stay in Iraq, he toes the Sharon party line, he’s for corporate globalization, the WTO and NAFTA, and he voted for the PATRIOT Act—the greatest single assault on civil liberties in the country’s history,” Nader said...