墨西哥、美国和加拿大之间的新自由贸易协定墨迹未干,便已有许多国家排队等待加入。十多个拉美国家,从阿根廷到委内瑞拉,都希望签订象墨西哥那样的“自由贸易”协定。布什总统也喜欢这种想法。但他不该如此。这里丝毫没有反对阿根廷或委内瑞拉的意思,但是西半球这种“自由贸易病”的突然发作,需要服两片阿司匹林让它好好睡一觉。 Mexico, the United States and Canada, the new free trade agreement has not dried up, many countries have been waiting in line to join. More than a dozen Latin American countries, from Argentina to Venezuela, hope to sign “free trade” agreements like Mexico. President Bush also likes this idea. But he should not do that. There is absolutely no objection to the meaning of Argentina or Venezuela here, but the sudden onset of this “free trade disease” in the Western Hemisphere requires taking two aspirin pills to sleep well.