Miami and the FTAA. (Letter from the Editor).(Free Trade Area of the Americas)(Editorial)

MOST OF THE the magazine you hold in your hands is dedicated to one idea--that Miami should become the permanent home of the Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). To the editorial staff of this magazine, the reasons--which go beyond even the dozen we posit here--seem utterly compelling. No other city in the hemisphere so perfectly reflects the mix of Anglo and Latin cultures as does Miami. Just for starters, more than half the city's population is Latin American and Caribbean, with sizeable communities from every country in the Americas. Then there are the arguments of history, geography, communications, transportation, media, professional services, …