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The United States of All the Americas - and the World 43
The Spread of the Federal Template
The founding fathers' work, spanning 15 years between 1776 and 1791,
established a pattern or template for federalism - for turning individual
colonies into a federated union with local autonomy and a degree of
central control.
As America grew and more states were added between 1784 and 1854,
the principle of regional government established by the Founding Fathers
extended throughout the United States.
More recently the whole of North America has drawn together. Mexico
had won its independence from Spain in 1821, and there was intense
competition for its oil around 1910, when the British, who dominated
Mexico's oilfields, were replaced by "Rockefellers'" Standard Oil. The
United States has now drawn in Mexico and Canada, once a British
dominion. All three are now members of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA).
The same process has been happening in Central America. The Central
American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) covers US trade with five
Central American nations: El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras
and Costa Rica.
The Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA) was created in
1960 to establish a common market for its member nations, and it was
replaced in 1980 by the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA),
formed by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,
Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela to encourage free trade, with
no deadline for the institution of a common market. Economic hardship
in Argentina, Brazil, and other member nations has made LAIA's task
difficult. This Latin American free trade area has been a stepping-stone to
such a regional bloc (which will one day include the Falkland Islands).
There is a Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). There are
potential links between the Caribbean countries and Latin America: there
is a 480-mile-long Occidental Petroleum pipeline from the second largest
oilfield in Colombia (the seventh largest supplier of petroleum to the US)
to the Caribbean coast.
Throughout South and Central America a network of oil and gas
pipelines is being extended all the time, linking the states in Free Trade
agreements through energy interconnections.