LatAm Alliance Takes FTAA by Horns

Havana
After four fruitful days of debates opposing the free trade agreements and its consequences, the 5th Hemispheric Meeting against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) comes to an end Saturday.

The forum is closing with the presentation of the action plans of the Continental Alliance for Latin America and the Caribbean and of other bodies such the Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity.

Attendees made important proposals such the creation of a world legal network to direct anti-FTAA fighting.

Concrete actions were presented to handle Washington´s maneuvers on their own level and a boycott was called of US products on May 1 to

illustrate the importance of the immigrants in that nation´s economy and support recent protests by those people.

Likewise, delegates urged to closely follow the plans of the Alliance for Security and Prosperity of North America, a new mechanism to extend the FTA among the US, Canada and Mexico throughout America.