Bush has declared the Free Trade Area of the Americas a priority. Crucial to any new deal will be Bush's ability to win fast-track negotiating authority from the U.S. Congress. Bill Clinton failed to secure what the Bush administration now calls trade promotion authority. I'm confident I will get it. Venezuela is also a powerful foe of Bush's market-driven trade approach.
Today there is more poverty than yesterday.
Today there are more children in the street than yesterday. Today, freedom embraces the entire hemisphere, except for one country, and we look forward to the day when all this hemisphere's people will know the benefit and dignity of freedom. Tell us what you think.