Miami, Florida, center of the New World: should Miami be the permanent home of the secretariat...

For all intents and purposes, the New World began in the Caribbean. That was where Columbus landed, and where the fusion between Europe and the Americas commenced. Now, five centuries later, the two continents of that New World are about to join into a single, common market, and the 34 nations of that common market must decide where to place the headquarters of their proposed trading area.

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It is the purpose of this document to argue that the City of Miami should be the natural and logical resting place for the permanent Secretariat of