In the middle of a tug-of-war between the United States and Brazil, the co-chairs of the negotiations, the 8th ministerial meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will take place Nov. 20-21 in the U.S. city of Miami. A broad range of civil society groups, including environmentalists, is opposed to the hemisphere-wide agreement.
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