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FTAA.soc/civ/142
June 13, 2005


Original: Portuguese
Translation: FTAA Secretariat

FTAA - COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ON THE PARTICIPATION OF
CIVIL SOCIETY

CONTRIBUTION IN RESPONSE TO THE OPEN AND ONGOING INVITATION
 


Names(s) Paulo Augusto Antunes Lacaz
Organization(s) Free Lancer - on Religion (Cult - Dogma and Regimen), Politics and Philosophy, based on the Positivism Doctrine)
Country Brazil
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FTAA Process

THE FTAA PROCESS – NUEVO LEON – 2004 - DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES - MINISTERIAL
 DECLARATION - HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION PROGRAM

CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON SMALLER ECONOMIES (CGSE)

ITEM 19

  • The desired results cannot be reached with financial support alone, and if they were, the results would be coupled with extensive misery, numerous dead and great suffering. For this reason, the countries that make up the “smaller economies” need support not only in the form of material capital but also, and simultaneously, in the form of moral and scientific intellectual capital and it is therefore appropriate to suggest a “fourth way,” the Workers’ Sociocracy which is neither communist, fascist, nazi nor democratic. In fact, it is a transition stage leading to democracy. Besides being a regime whose structure would facilitate reducing corruption, various other actions would enhance the economy during a first stage, such as:

  1. Small enterprises, big business? No - Small enterprises, big problems – great waste

What we should have are large, private enterprises, private oligopolies whose objectives are the rational use of raw materials, which are becoming scarce worldwide.

  1. Parastate monopolies, which hold national/international strategic wealth, would be the owners of the natural deposits that produce strategic raw materials such as oil. These enterprises should sign agreements to guarantee supply, at market price and with contingency clauses, to all important international consumers through their multinationals. These agreements, bilaterally endorsed, would be monitored by the FTAA.

Parastate monopolies would thus have the means to formulate social plans for their citizens with a portion of the income obtained. Consider the example of Petrobras in Brazil.

This would prevent having the same situation observed in Arab countries where large, rich multinational and national enterprises exist alongside people living in misery. This generates only conflict. Never-ending conflict.
 

 
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