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1 June 2006, 18:43

I smell class warfare in operation here. The U.S. badly needs to work with Latin American countries to develop a unified Western hemisphere focussed on SUSTAINABLE economic development throughout the Americas. The United States itself is on the verge of needing massive economic redevelopment in infrastructure and industry.

As mostly petroleum-based shipping methods become increasingly expensive and difficult to maintain, trade within the Americas will become more important.

This could be a time of vast opportunity for joint development of a sustainable infrastructure and economy throughouut the hemisphere. It is up to the citizens of American countries to push for the types of international cooperation that could enrich us all. An American Union needs to happen to compete effectively with Europe and Asia and to build hemispherical leadership in sustainable development.

We should be working at being better neighbors instead of pushing division and petty political squabbles. We need each other.

Dan Stafford