Former Mexican foreign minister calls for ‘North American union’, unified currency

[Joanne98]

Prolific Mexican politician and intellectual Jorge Castañeda believes that a greater North American community -- a "North American Union" -- with economies tied together under a European Union-style system, compete with open borders and a unified currency, is the wave of the future.

In a new interview with Web site BigThink.com, Castañeda, Mexico's foreign minister from 2000-2003 and a global distinguished professor of politics at New York University, said that with nearly 11 percent of Mexicans living in the United States, he has stopped seeing his nation as a Latin American country.

"Well, my sense is that we’re moving closer and closer to forms of economic integration with the United States and Canada and conceivably Central America and Caribbean could become part of that in the coming years," he said. "I don’t see Mexico as a Latin American country. Too much of trade, investment, tourism, immigration, remittances, absolutely everything is concentrated exclusively with the United States. So, Mexico has to be part of a North American community, a North American union, which at some point probably should include some type of monetary union along European lines with a free flow of labor, with energy being on the table, etc."

Often demonized as some type of "conspiracy theory" in mainstream American press, the so-called North American Union proposals have actually existed for some time. In May of 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations released a document entitled "Building a North American Community" in which it calls for an EU-like integration of Canada, the United States and Mexico.

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The US Chamber of Commerce wants open borders too.

[Craftsman]

1. No thanks.

[Jamastiene]

2. Kill me now. n/t

[Gman2]

3. I believe this also. Only no free borders. We need a trading block.

If we can elevate central and south america to semi middle calss status, we would have a huge market to supply. Major growth. Less transport costs. Semi isolation from europs. Thus we wouldnt need al those bases. MAJOR SAVINGS. We sould tool up, not for export, but a sustained growth of alaska, all the way down to chile.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. European Union-style system

I can go for that.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. I'm willing.

There's pro's and con's I'm sure but I'm not opposed to a major change like this.

[roguevalley]

8. nafta times infinity. no thanks.

[customerserviceguy]

6. Not gonna happen

And woe unto the political party that suggests it in the US.

[Don Caballero]

7. More right wing fearmongering conspiracy theory

garbage. North American Union? Never gonna happen. This is the same diluted thinking that has resulted in the debunked one world government nonsense.

[eilen]

9. Yeah, dollar to peso? Are you kidding me?

our money hasn't been devalued enough?

Whoever said NAFTA times infinity was right.

[Vidar]

10. It would be a disaster for all three countries.