Armoring NAFTA: The Battleground for Mexico’s Future.

CIP Americas Program, September 19, 2008 - “In April 2007, on the eve of the North American Trilateral Summit, Thomas Shannon, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, described the SPP’s purpose with remarkable candor: The SPP, he declared, ‘understands North America as a shared economic space,’ one that ‘we need to protect,’ not only on the border but ‘more broadly throughout North America’ through improved ‘security cooperation.’ He added: ‘To a certain extent, we’re armoring NAFTA.’” Read more.