I am not sure if it is the longest, but I am sure billions of trucks, cars, airplanes, ships, and people, cross from one side to the other every day.
2006-10-18
07:18:48
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The U.S. environmental movement also split on the deal, as did Latino civil rights organizations. Moreover, in both countries the leaderships of these organized constituencies had other priorities to negotiate with their respective governments--priorities they were hesitant to subordinate to concerns about NAFTA.
But the fact that there was a broad-based public debate, at least in the United States, was extraordinary in itself. Never before had such a broad array of national and regional social constituency groups engaged on an issue of international economic policy, and never had there been such breadth of participation and popular debate on the pivotal issues of North-South relations. This fact made the political and economic establishment of each country tremble; here was an uninvited actor trying to gain a seat at the table where international economic and financial policy was being negotiated.
NAFTA's proponents were caught off guard by the broad public challenge, and they
2006-10-18
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