Brazzil

Therefore why should the US reduce their agriculture subsidies ?

You want an "FTAA" for agriculture but nor on industrialised goods and services.

Just as it pleases you.
The word reciprocity should not even be in your dictionary. So now you know why you have failed economically for the last 50 years and why your wealth inequality is so much higher than in developed nations. You want it all and give nothing.
Your minority elite is doing just that...with YOU !

LatAm countries cannot compete with the US in industry/technology... The US must be, what... 50 years ahead?
The only area in wich they can compete is agriculture.
The FTAA is meant to open the markets on everything except agriculture. Therefore LatAm would be screwed, because farm subsides in the US would remain and industries in LatAm will just disappear.
So, with FTAA, the US win on every possible area and LatAm gets f**ked on every possible area. And you have the nerve to talk about fairness and reciprocity!
God save Cháves, Evo Morales, Lula, Kirchner. Simon Bolívar would be proud of them.

Agriculture is the ONLY trade in wich latin american countries MIGHT stand a chance of competition.
And the FTAA includes EVERYTHING, EXCEPT AGRICULTURE, because Bush and Zoellick say so.
So, the ONLY thing that COULD come out of FTAA for Latin America is being denied. And then the guy above says "You want it all and give nothing".... meaning that Latin America wants all and gives nothing... now, what is wrong with that statement?

Agriculture is the ONLY trade in wich latin american countries MIGHT stand a chance of competition.
And the FTAA includes EVERYTHING, EXCEPT AGRICULTURE, because Bush and Zoellick say so.
So, the ONLY thing that COULD come out of FTAA for Latin America is being denied. And then the guy above says "You want it all and give nothing".... meaning that Latin America wants all and gives nothing... now, what is wrong with that statement?

Agriculture is the only trade in wich latin american countries MIGHT stand a chance of competition.
And the FTAA includes EVERYTHING, except agriculture, because Bush and Zoellick say so.
So, the ONLY thing that COULD come out of FTAA for Latin America is being denied. And then the guy above says "You want it all and give nothing".... meaning that Latin America wants all and gives nothing... now, what is wrong with that statement?

Agriculture is the ONLY trade in wich latin american countries MIGHT stand a chance of competition.
And the FTAA includes EVERYTHING, EXCEPT AGRICULTURE, because Bush and Zoellick say so.
So, the ONLY thing that COULD come out of FTAA for Latin America is being denied. And then the guy above says "You want it all and give nothing".... meaning that Latin America wants all and gives nothing... now, what is wrong with that statement?

Agriculture is the ONLY trade in wich latin american countries MIGHT stand a chance of competition.
And the FTAA includes EVERYTHING, EXCEPT AGRICULTURE, because Bush and Zoellick say so.
So, the ONLY thing that COULD come out of FTAA for Latin America is being denied. And then the guy above says "You want it all and give nothing".... meaning that Latin America wants all and gives nothing... now, what is wrong with that statement?

The FTAA Is Dead. Brazil and Mercosur Have Buried It.

I thought Brazil was in the Mercosur.
So Brazil killed one part and the others killed the what was left of the FTAA.

What a bummer.

and its chimp leader, GW Bush!

Dead? Are you kidding?

Small business men in every country in Lat Am are looking for ways to circumvent mercosur and its policies. And were succeeding! Were doing it shipment by shipment, trade by trade and leaving chimps like Chavez in the dark. And guess what? There are more and more of us doing it! I say long live the Americans! They have the best markets in the world for our goods. What can Chavez really offer us? To steal our resources, thats what!! Why on earth would Venezuela need 100,000 guns unless they are planning a sweet little invasion of the Amazon region - you know they need more room (sounds like another socialist dictator of the 1930's - who is a great hero of Chavez I might add.)
Sign FTAA or not - some of us are making it a reality despite Chavez - vive la revolucion!

Laura Carlsen is a liberal writer and her IRC is not known as a pro-USA organization. It is easy to print nonsense in a foreign venue or a liberal blog rather than in real economic forums. Ms Carlsen mentions "from the illegal exposure of a CIA agent"..that is a false statement, a CIA agent must be an operative during the last five years to be illegally outed, Valerie Plame was never an operative, that has been made clear in even the liberal NYT. Is FTAA dead, maybe it is. So who will be Brazils savior now, China, Russia, Chavez. Brazil cannot stand alone, so who will they turn to? After Portugal it was England, followed by Germany and then the United States. Now the USA is evil so which new devil will Brazil make a pact with Russia or China. Good luck.

brazil and any other nation, or community, can stand alone. maybe a little bit behind, technologically, no doubt. but what's the point of all this advancement when so many of the worlds population live in extreme poverty? humanity already possesses all the technology to enable it to live, if not happily, decently.
i'd rather see brazil not so high-tech but a fairer society, able to construct its life without the dictates of so well-intentioned foreigners
good luck!