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|author=The Miami Herald editorial board
|source=The Miami Herald
|date=November 16, 2006
|url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/16023399.htm
|quote="U.S. trade and investment in the Andean region create jobs that offer alternatives to growing coca and exporting narcotics to the United States. Such jobs can help counter the anti-capitalist pull of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and his partners. If Congress turns away from free trade, U.S. industry will lose ground in the region to China and other Southeast Asian nations."
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