From NAFTA to FTAA

As thousands of activists descend on Miami for FTAA protests, David Bacon takes a look at NAFTA at 10.

"As demonstration and debate unfold, in the eye of the storm is the one free trade agreement that already provides an idea of what the Americas can expect from the Bush free trade plan," he writes. "In just a few short weeks, the North American Free Trade Agreement will be ten years old. And for FTAA's opponents, that ten-year history of devastation, wreaked in Mexico and the US both, will be the key argument in stopping its extension to the rest of Latin America."

Keep track of the protests in Miami via Infoshop and the FTAA IMC.