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Boston-area activists took advantage of the warm weather and the ongoing living wage sit-in in Mass. Hall to join an action organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement(PSLM) in solidarity with the ongoing protests to denounce the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit in Quebec this weekend...
...year, Mercosur has become the world's third largest market - a distant third - after the European Union and NAFTA. It is also a potent symbol of Brazil's ambition to be a leader of South American unity. Last year the Cardoso government broke new ground at a South American summit, where it argued for the accelerated integration of the continent. "Mercosur is our destiny, while the FTAA is an option," Cardoso likes to say. Part of that balance-of-power destiny includes closer ties with Europe, the target of more than 25 percent of Brazil's exports and the source...
...response from proponents of the summit process - including the Bush administration - is that it's easy to lose sight of how much has been achieved since Miami. "We have a tendency not to realize how full the glass is," says Luis Lauredo, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) and Washington's summit coordinator. "We've progressed more in the past five years than the European Community did in 30 years after the war. Let's give ourselves some credit." It's also worth noting that, as in Miami and Santiago, none of the leaders in Quebec...
...Similar contortions have already been involved in arriving at the terms of the summit political declaration and the "action plan," which has been massaged by officials from around the hemisphere for months. The heart of the political declaration will be a clause that makes future participation in the busy hemisphere round of ministerial conferences and trade negotiations dependent on staying part of the "democratic family" of nations. The plan will call for a permanent council of OAS member countries to monitor challenges to representative democracy around the continent, as well as concrete measures to improve the region's creaking infrastructure...
...most important result of the Quebec summit will not be embedded in any declaration. The hemisphere's leaders will spend at least eight of their 10 scheduled hours for talks closeted away from the press. Their freewheeling discussions will cover everything on the agenda and more, but they will also serve to forge personal ties and air strongly held views without fear of public reaction. In a word, they will bond. "The main thing we want to achieve is a strong reaffirmation of the hemisphere's collective will," says Marc Lortie, Canada's summit coordinator. More than anything else...