Slow, but ahead
SOME of the political leaders may still have doubts, but trade officials are plodding on towards a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). At last week's meeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the hemisphere—Cuba excluded—agreed to start formal negotiations at a summit meeting in Santiago, the Chilean capital, next March.
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