Spanish Socialist leader says Uruguay better off with Mercosur

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Montevideo, Nov 5 (EFE).- The man who hopes to be Spain's next prime minister told Uruguayans to be wary of the Free Trade Area of the Americas since it was a "polemical process" and that they would do better to stick to Mercosur as a model for regional integration.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, chairman of the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, said Mercosur "needs to acquire a definite horizon of geopolitical application and define a broader regional space for integration".

Mercosur, the trade bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, represents "the best dry run" for full-scale regional integration while the FTAA, in which the United States wants to see all hemispheric nations except Cuba taking part, is "polemical".
"Mercosur needs to be beefed up. It is a historical embryo," said the head of the Spanish Socialists.


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1. Zapatero

is a great man, I hope he wins in Spain. They have to get rid of little Franco Aznar. I don't know much about the Mercosur, but I do trust Zapatero.