Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Country Email List Union ended, Washington seemed to pay some attention to Latin America and the region shared a certain homogeneity with governments more inclined to seek close relations with the White Country Email List House . It can be said - of course, with some exaggeration - that there was a relative community of interests and values in the inter-American system. That first continental date must also be Country Email List located in the grand strategy of Washington in that historical context.
The grand strategy, called " Engagement plus Enlargement ," was that the V Country Email List United States would not fall back as it had done after World War I and that it had the will, the ability, and the opportunity to decisively reconfigure the international system Country Email List (the engagement component ), while it would seek to propagate the market economy and political pluralism (the enlargement component). Regarding this last component, US policy used the 1989 Washington Consensus to Country Email List give impetus to policies of liberalization and economic deregulation, on the one hand, and reduction of the State, on the other. In this framework, a central axis was trade, an issue that became the main focus of the First Summit of the Americas with the aspiration.
Of achieving a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005. Country Email List On the way to the conclave in Miami, the United States held a set of prior cV Country Email List onsultations, as well as preparatory meetings. Latin America, then through the so-called Country Email ListRio Group (made up of the sum of the Contadora Group, the Contadora Support Group, the Caribbean Community [Caricom] and the Central American Integration System [SICA]), held meetings of ahead of the summit in order to make contributions that reflected the needs of the region. From a bureaucratic point of view, the role of the Undersecretary for.