Reply #3: (al Jazeera) Castro, Chavez defy US trade pact [View All]

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The Bushite losers keep their streak of foreign policy fuckups alive.

Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have announced an alternative trade bloc to the one proposed by the US for a free-trade area of the Americas.

The alternative was conceived as "a battle fought with the same rules and regulations as those imposed by the empire to divide the people", Castro said on Tuesday.


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FTAA dead

Before the signing of the agreement, Castro and Chavez addressed a rally in Havana where both presidents declared the US-proposed Latin American Free Trade Zone dead.

Chavez has long accused the US
of plotting against him

"It is an alternative to the perverse FTAA, which they have been trying to impose on us for years," Chavez said. "FTAA is dead."

al Jazeera