Earlier this year the Pan-American Games went off smoothly albeit way over budget in Rio de Janeiro.
But, for all Bill Clinton's troubles with Congress, pan-American free trade is still on the agenda.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives would be bypassed--turned into local council chambers within the pan-American entity.
Much preparatory work has been done since the idea was accepted at a pan-American summit in Miami in 1994.
It took place on 4 October on a stretch of the Pan-American Highway some 170km (105 miles) west of Guatemala City.
His trip next week will be the first of three, building up to a pan-American summit in Santiago, Chile, next March.
Young Lopez, a Pan-American playboy in the classic mold, spends little time behind a desk (he's titular head of marketing for Jumex).
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There would be a pan-American Parliament, but its powers would be limited.
This pan-American logic also lies behind an intriguing development at London University.
Venezuela is the main shareholder in Telesur, a Caracas-based pan-American TV.
Today 80% of Serum's sales are to groups Unicef and the Pan-American Health Organization, as well as immunization programs, the majority of which are from developing markets.
Chile in turn agreed to co-ordinate with Mercosur its position in the talks on pan-American free trade that are due to be launched at a 34-country summit in April.
As Bill Clinton prepared for an official visit to Mexico and Central America, Latin Americans at a high-level meeting in Atlanta accused the United States of footdragging over pan-American free trade.
And its backers, including Mr. Bush, hope it will help keep hope alive among the Western Hemisphere's nations for the long-promised but repeatedly postponed Pan-American trade pact, the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
All this has paid off: Venezuela's football team, long embarrassing also-rans in South America, has become competitive, and the country has won many more medals at the two latest Pan-American games than in the past.
In 2011, it is now a global top five vaccine manufacturer in terms of volume 80% of its products go to UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to immunize children in low and middle-income countries.
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They will be joined by the two best teams from the 2011 European Championships and the top two teams from the Pan-American Championships of the same year, plus the highest-placed team from an Asia-Pacific tournament to be arranged.
For the ambitious Brazilians, it provides a vehicle to project their own weight, and not just in South America: in the talks supposed to lead by 2005 to a pan-American free-trade area, Mercosur's voice essentially, Brazil's has been the counterpoint to the otherwise overwhelming thunder of the United States.
Rio de Janeiro's successful staging of the Pan-American Games in 2007 and their future hosting of the 2014 World Cup seemed to bolster its prospects, but the IOC recently noted that it would not be capable of providing the level of security and safety required for the Games.
This week's meeting may be the germ of a new pan-Latin American club.
His net worth doubled in two years, thanks mostly to the stock run-up of pan-Latin American wireless telecom outfit Am??rica M??vil.
The people who frequent centres like this one are not so much clinging to their parents' and grandparents' ways as creating a new culture that is both pan-Asian and American.
Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo, presents Peter Pan as a grown-up American family man named Peter Banning (Robin Williams).
The Conference of Parliamentarians for UNESCO on 3 October (Room X, 9.45 a.m to 6.00 p.m.) will bring together over 100 parliamentarians who serve as focal points for UNESCO and representatives of organizations including the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU).
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Her thirteenth-place finish in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada qualified her for Sydney in 2000.
According to its website, the quasi-government agency is recognized as the official anti-doping agency for Olympic, Pan American and Paralympic events in the United States.
There is not a central idea that works across pan-Asia, and that is not true for the American market.
There are now obviously various Libyan officials who are leaving the Qaddafi government, and one of them has come forward to say that he believes he has evidence that Qaddafi himself ordered the Pan Am bombing in 1988, which obviously is of great interest to the American people -- large loss of life, huge terror attack.
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