Good article on free trade in the Americas
Here.
One point: he mentions "a coalition made up largely of liberal Democrats, trade unions and left-wing advocacy groups...coalescing around a campaign against the Central American democracies."
It's only fair to point out that there are more than a few conservatives fighting against free trade as well.
NAFTA stands IMO as one of Clinton's inarguable accomplishments, a policy that stood foursquare against what one would have thought were his natural allies: the unions. For one shining moment, Clinton seemed to listen to something other than the polls. I remember actually rooting for him as NAFTA came up for that skin-of-the-teeth vote in Congress.
