Growing Opposition To U.S. Attempts To Re-Colonize Land South Of The Rio Grande

Another issue addressed was the euphemistically dubbed Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), another attempt to expand to all of the Americas the Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, and with a dangerous component of supranational security under the responsibility of the United States. This project is even more dangerous than the FTAA because it is advancing without making public its goals and essence, and which would imply concretizing an end to the legislative, judicial and even the executive institutions of every nation in the hemisphere, in favor of one single government – that of Washington. During the event, master lectures were presented by Belgian sociologist Francois Houtard and Bolivian Pablo Solón regarding the struggle of the social movements for a better world, as well as the opening talk by Cuban deputy and academic Osvaldo Martínez, who noted that the "model that the United States stubbornly continues to wish for Latin America and the Caribbean is the pure neoliberalism of free trade and privatization." "Now," he said, "the original FTAA project, the 34-nation one, with Cuba excluded, is frozen, which is good news and an expression of a victory for the continental campaign against the FTAA. It is a victory in one stage of the battle – to use military terms – but the war has not yet been won, nor has the time come to lay down our arms. "Like a malignant virus, the FTAA has mutated after coming up against resistance, and it is maintaining today the essence of the project of domination to take over the region’s oil, gas, water, biodiversity, markets and labor force, but the face it is wearing is that of the Free Trade Agreements wrapped in the propaganda of trade liberalization," he explained. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/abril/mar18/17alca.html

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