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...Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an initiative to expand North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere (with the exception of Cuba), brought thousands of protesters to Miami this past week, as well as a delegation of Harvard students sent by the Institute of Politics to observe the action. Media mogul Conrad Black has labeled activists who resist trade liberalization “the political equivalent of football hooligans.” He maintains that, “They are incapable of coherent articulation and they should be dispelled with as little force...
Proponents of the FTAA say the plan, which would remove barriers to trade and investment among all the countries of the hemisphere except Cuba, would promote economic growth, opportunities for employment, access to goods and services and ultimately greater prosperity to their 800 million citizens...
...tiny strip of land on the southeastern coast of Cuba, 600 men wait. They wait for a trial, for a lawyer, even for a charge against them. These men, most of whom U.S. military forces captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past two years, have been denied their basic judicial rights...
...cases before the court involve the legality of the United States’ creation of an extrajudicial system in Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson provided the main tenets of the government’s position in the Rasul case. According to his brief, the prisoners should not be considered prisoners of war. This argument is dubious at best. These prisoners—most allegedly linked in some way to Taliban forces—ought to be classified as POWs and afforded the rights called for by the Geneva Convention...
...situation in Guantanamo developed quite differently. While the U.S. could have moved the prisoners to any number of military facilities, it specifically brought them from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Cuba. Guantanamo is being used as a back door to avoid the federal requirements for the just treatment of prisoners. That its military facility is leased offshore is no excuse for the U.S. to flout due process...