Word: nafta
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...like the citizenry voting on NAFTA," Gabay had said. "You let the people involved in it, who know the issues, vote...
...successful fight to ratify the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Clinton alienated some to the Democratic party's biggest supporters by going head to head against the labor unions. The AFL-CIO donated $1 million to the election coffers of the Democratic National Party and threatened to withhold support to any Democrat, including the President, who supported the NAFTA treaty...
Mobilizing all his forces, Clinton campaigned for NAFTA for weeks, even sending Vice President Al Gore '69 to debate Ross Perot, NAFTA's popular opponent and the billionaire watchdog for the common man. In an effort of pure will, Clinton secured a last minute NAFTA-victory by indefatigably pursued wavering senators in the face of strong opposition within his own party. It's hard to recall George Bush ever putting himself in such a position...
...country had been priding itself on its stability and relative prosperity, especially since President Salinas pushed through his six-year program of free-market economic reforms and Mexico joined the U.S. and Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Last week he announced that Mexico had become the first Latin American nation to join the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the association of the world's leading industrial democracies...
...dramatic glass stock-market building towering over the capital's main artery, Paseo de la Reforma. Young brokers in horn-rimmed glasses and imported ties traded the market into a 48% gain last year, even as the national economy slid into recession. In the three months after NAFTA passed in the U.S. Congress last year, more than $7 billion in new money flowed into Mexico, most of it from...