If the FTAA Is Detrimental Socially, Economically and Environmentally, Why Is Every Country in the Western Hemisphere Negotiating on it?
Not everyone loses in “free trade” agreements. Corporations and wealthy business owners from all participating countries who are helping to write the rules of these agreements stand to gain financially from a system that puts their interests above all others. Politicians often own or have large sums of money invested in corporations and therefore have personal interests at stake.
