Summit of the Americas
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The third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, is currently being held. The Summit is being attended by all 34 American heads of state (except for Fidel Castro). The goal of the Summit is to finalize the FTAA, or Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement. Similar to NAFTA, pro-democratic governments insist the passage of the FTAA is necessary to “help the hemisphere and its governments combat inequality and help spread the wealth we are creating through expanded liberalization and increased integration” (Leroux 31). In this article, Darryl Leroux warns that Quebec City could be the next flash-point of violence over the zealous efforts to liberalize global trade. As he noted when this article was published in March “It remains to be seen whether protestors will succeed in disrupting the meetings as they did in Seattle and Prague” (Leroux 33). As we now know, protestors did succeed in disrupting the meetings through a series of protests. A few of these protests turned violent and police forces on the scen
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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