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Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott led a high-level U.S. business delegation to Haiti on a two-day mission that the Clinton Administration hopes will trigger quick and massive investment in the hemisphere's poorest country. The task is hardly hopeless: TIME correspondent Tammerlane Drummond reports that recent international aid to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's new government already tops $1 billion -- more, per capita, than any other country in the world has received. Drummond, who recently visited the Haitian capital, says a virtual army of American small businessmen is already swarming Port-au- Prince looking for a piece...
...This is one of the poorest neighborhoods in all of Cambridge," Swan says. "But nearly all the residents are working-class families, not welfare recipients. This is very much a working-class neighborhood...
...bring, Chiapas' insurgency has already earned it more attention from Mexico City than it received in the previous five centuries. In recent months, some 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers in the state have brought in mobile health clinics and distributed food to local peasants, the country's poorest. Land reform promised since the revolution of 1910 is finally being implemented: last week the state government announced that a privately held 5,000-hectare hacienda in the southerly Lacandon rain forest was broken up and handed over to peasants. ``It's a very important first step toward solving the worst...
...long as business is making money we can walk by a fellow American who's hurt and not do something." Newt even acknowledged that his pet project, a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, lacked "the moral urgency of coming to grips with what's happening to the poorest Americans...
...wasn't this turmoil -- especially the rebellion in Chiapas -- itself an outgrowth of NAFTA? It's true that farmers there will suffer as protective trade barriers fall. But a deeper source of their discontent is sheer, longstanding poverty. And it's no coincidence that Chiapas, Mexico's poorest region, is also farthest from the U.S. and the balming effect of trade. The unrest of Mexican peasants is undeniably a reminder that free trade's overall benefits entail real costs, but it's equally a reminder that the alternative is worse. In a thoroughly protectionist world, all of Mexico might today...