WESTERN HEMISPHERE BRIEF #111-75

Created: 8/3/2001

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?. ATIN AMERICA: MEXICO AND VENEZUELA HAS DECIDED TO PRESS FOR AN EARLY CONFERENCE TO SETATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC SYSTEMA SCHEME THEY DEVISED TO GIVE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEANREATER ROLE IN WORLD ECONOMIC

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ENABLE MEMBERS TO DEAL MORE EFFECTIVELY kJITH POUERFUL COUNTRIES ON SUCH MATTERS AS:

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ENTERPRISES AND DEVELOPMENTREGION'S INTERESTS IN INTERNATIONALHE PARTICULAR GRIEVANCES OF INDIVIDIIIUALESPITE THE PLETHORA OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ALREADY INATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS FEEL OBLIGE" TO GO ALONG yiTH THE MOST EFFORTS DESlGnTD TO EXTRACT CONCESSIONS FROM THE US AND OTHER INDUSTRALIZED NATIONS- TO PERSUADE AND ASSUAGE THEHE SPONSORS OF THE PROPOSED NEW ORGANIZATION HAVE GIVEN REPEATED ASSURANCES THAT THEY DO NOT INTEND TO USE IT TO PROMOTE AN ADVERSARY RELATIONSHIP UITH THE

//THE MOTIVE, NEVERTHELESS- IS CLEARLY TO IMPROVE THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FIREPOWER THAT LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN CAN BRING TO BEAR IN COUNTERING US POLICIES DEEMED INIMICAL TO THEIR INTERESTS- {SECRET NO FOREIGN

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