Countries in Latin America pursuing a free-trade agenda are not economic basket cases, writes AS/COA's Vice President Eric Farnsworth in a letter to the WSJ.
The letter, sent by a group of senior national security leaders, urges U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the United States in NAFTA.
Trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States grew 6.5 percent in 2017, hitting $1.2 trillion.
"Undermining trust by whatever means makes it more difficult to update, much less keep, NAFTA," the AS/COA vice president tells Forbes.com.
How would North America function without the trade bloc? Council of the Americas and the Wilson Center held a discussion with current and ex-government officials and business leaders from across the continent.
AS/COA's Vice President Eric Farnsworth discusses the current round of North American Free Trade Agreement talks amid threats from President Donald Trump on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
If 2017 was the year that changed Washington, 2018 will redefine Latin America. AS/COA experts explain how in our first podcast of the year.