Thread: Former Mex For. Min. Calls for 'North Amer. Union', Currency

Link to video of interview included

Former Mexican foreign minister calls for ‘North American union’, unified currency

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 -- 9:48 pm

Prolific Mexican politician and intellectual Jorge Castañeda believes that a greater North American community -- a "North American Union" -- with economies tied together under a European Union-style system, complete with open borders and a unified currency, is the wave of the future.

In a new interview with Web site BigThink.com, Castañeda, Mexico's foreign minister from 2000-2003 and a global distinguished professor of politics at New York University, said that with nearly 11 percent of Mexicans living in the United States, he has stopped seeing his nation as a Latin American country.

(BigThinkcom video:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/18671 )

"Well, my sense is that we’re moving closer and closer to forms of economic integration with the United States and Canada and conceivably Central America and Caribbean could become part of that in the coming years," he said. "I don’t see Mexico as a Latin American country. Too much of trade, investment, tourism, immigration, remittances, absolutely everything is concentrated exclusively with the United States. So, Mexico has to be part of a North American community, a North American union, which at some point probably should include some type of monetary union along European lines with a free flow of labor, with energy being on the table, etc."

Often demonized as some type of "conspiracy theory" in mainstream American press, the so-called North American Union proposals have actually existed for some time. In May of 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations released a document entitled "Building a North American Community" in which it calls for an EU-like integration of Canada, the United States and Mexico.

(Video: Alan Colmes: North American Union a Conspiracy Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50qy-EvM6EM )

While the document does not specifically call for the ceding of sovereignty between the three nations -- as some vocal opponents of the idea have suggested -- it does recommend the formation of a North American Advisory Council and a multinational inter-parliamentary group to facilitate mutual cooperation. Though the group originally set out to achieve this goal by 2010, few in mainstream America are even aware of it today.

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/mexican-for ... -currency/

Related:
Building a North American Community
Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/

oh yes I can see it, it is inevitable! what a load of bollocks!
I a proud American under my Constitution and my history, my values as a n American and that DOES NOT include diluting all of this because of some socialistic utopia!

Thanks. I have passed this on to some of my doubter friends.

Oh yeah, Mexico wants this so that they suck more money out of here, as if the remittances from illegals (was second largest component of their GDP) and the foreign aid we give them are not enough.
And this dufus should look at what is going on in the EU, with Greece, Portugal and Spain ready to default on their bonds unless Germany bails them out.

Hey!? Didn't Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center just lie about this on the Oreilly Show last night claiming there was no conspiracy to do this from the Council On Foreign Relations?

The CFR created the term and advocates for a NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY.

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Good buddy Potok was just on Chris Mathews in the first 10 minutes about hate groups (like anyone that does not agree with their agenda) spurring this Austin pilot to lose his mind and crash his plane. I know the program repeats again tonight on MSNBC.

Castañeda needs to read the news regarding Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland; and what it has brought to the European Union. DEBT!!!!

Originally Posted by vortex

Good buddy Potok was just on Chris Mathews in the first 10 minutes about hate groups (like anyone that does not agree with their agenda) spurring this Austin pilot to lose his mind and crash his plane. I know the program repeats again tonight on MSNBC.

Does anyone actually watch MSNBC anymore?

Originally Posted by LawEnforcer

Castañeda needs to read the news regarding Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland; and what it has brought to the European Union. DEBT!!!!

Yeah....Greece is really a great example of where this country is headed. Unsustainable pensions, riots, arson, police getting killed.....So they are waiting for someone (EU, IMF, etc) to step in and help them.

But who would bail out our whole country?

Yeah, I pop into MSNBC, because gotta know what the rabid liberals are espousing as talking points these days.