The history of trade in the Americas as a whole

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Cartagena: Looking toward the Free Trade Area of the Americas
NAFTA & Inter-American Trade Monitor, 5 April 1996. Business executives and trade ministers of 34 American nations met in Cartagena, Colombia on March 21. Basic disagreements on how and how fast to move toward the agreed goal of establishing the Free Trade Area of the Americas by or before 2005. The Americas Business Forum, a parallel meeting of 1,500 private business representatives from various countries of the hemisphere. Disagreements.
Increases in Ag exports, hunger
NAFTA & Inter-American Trade Monitor, 1 November 1996. While US will push globalization of free trade at WTO conference in Singapore in December, 1996, a FAO report for Latin America and Caribbean indicates the social consequences.
Chile to play the field in free trade
10 September 1997. President Eduardo Frei last week said Chile would not choose one regional trading association at the expense of another, but instead will play the field by maintaining membership in multiple trading associations.
Arms sales to Latin America
By Thomas Cardamone, Council for a Livable World, 18 December 1997. The Clinton administration announced that the U.S. would end the moratorium on the sale of advanced military equipment to Latin American states, despite opposition by a number of Latin American leaders. This creates the possibility for billions of dollars in high-tech arms sales to the region.