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Neither special interest groups' demands nor unwarranted concerns about Mexico should thwart NAFTA's ratification...
President Clinton needs both to send an unambiguous message of support for NAFTA and to devise an effective strategy for sending it through Congress. He must move quickly to get all of the major players on board. Speed is a function of power. The longer it takes to send a pact through Congress, the higher the odds that the pact will be captured and eviscerated by vested interests...
...NAFTA supporters agree that immediate action by Clinton is necessary. Former Republican Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin, now a Fellow at the Institute of Politics, noted that, "President Clinton has proved himself to be very adept politically and should be able to persuade his constituents that mutual self-interests would be effectively served by the ratification of the pact...
...benefits of NAFTA go beyond economic benefits for the three countries involved. NAFTA is just the promising beginning of an attempt at hemispheric integration, a start to erasing hemispheric economic disparities...
...reaping its economic benefits would help facilitate the sweeping changes now taking place in the political economies of Latin American and Caribbean countries, thus encouraging widespread democratic changes and a renewed commitment to market-based economics. If we are to accomplish this important task, we cannot allow NAFTA to become a casualty of special interests...