Miami's move: the reputation of Miami--and Florida--as the gateway to Latin America is...

Just weeks from the event he's organizing that will help determine the economic future of Miami and Florida, J.A. "Tony'" Ojeda is affable, friendly--and about half a task short of a frenzy.

Next month, trade ministers from 34 Western Hemisphere countries and their entourages will convene at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Miami to talk commerce--specifically, how to integrate the economies of those countries into a tariff-free trading bloc called the Free Trade Area of the Americas stretching from the Bering Straits off Alaska to Cape Horn at the tip of South A