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Miami est devenue en un peu plus de cent ans un carrefour obligé de la vie économique des Amériques. Cette contribution vise à préciser les points forts d'un rayonnement régional et intercontinental qui s'est affirmé à partir des années 1980. Les fonctions portuaire et aéroportuaire forment la base d'une expansion solide, qui concerne également le commerce de gros et de détail, le secteur hôtelier, le secteur financier et de nombreuses activités de service. La métropole pâtit encore de certaines faiblesses mais l'avenir dessine pour Miami une projection puissante vers le Bassin des Caraïbes, l'Amérique du Sud et plus avant.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has produced a number of deep & maybe enduring results on both the space & societies of the three nations involved -- impacts that go well beyond the merely commercial domain. However, in the US, as well as in Canada & Mexico, numerous criticisms against the integration process are still being voiced, in addition to wariness expressed in the political field. Regarding the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (VFAA), to come into force by 2005, the situation is analogous. Indeed, if the negotiation process is completed by then, we can anticipate the deep implications it will have on every nation of the hemisphere, & also the criticisms & suspicions that will continue to be expressed in the three NAFTA countries & elsewhere in the continent. This work is intended to survey some geopolitical issues concerning regional integration in the Americas & to assess the difficulties of such a project. Adapted from the source document.

Las estadísticas disponibles muestran que el turismo internacional ha experimentado un gran auge en los años ochenta y noventa. La tendencia sigue siendo favorable para los próximos años aunque se puede prever una fuerte competencia con algunos de los países del Caribe. Los beneficios económicos del turismo internacional en el país han sido señalados, así como algunos problemas sociales y éticos. Pero hasta ahora no se ha hecho un análisis pormenorizado de las consecuencias sociales y políticas que el desarrollo de este sector puede provocar a largo plazo. Este estudio basado en un trabajo de campo realizado durante los últimos años pretende aportar nuevos conocimientos acerca de esta problemática.

Miami and the new Inter-American relations. The Inter-American relations have reached a new phase characterized by the growth of commercial relationships, by crossed investments and interchange of diverse kind. The Miami Metropolitan Area, strategically located at the Southern tip of the United States, close to the Straits of Florida, has become during the last two decades the main gateway for this flux of exchange to and from the Caribbean and Latin America. Taking advantage of its "hub and spokes" function through its port and its airport, it has become a large sprawling metropolis, a center of attraction for international tourism and it now vies for some kind of political status. The Miami Summit (1994) has been the platform from where the project of a Free Trade Area, encompassing the whole hemisphere (FTAA), was launched. While this idea makes some progress, Miami believes that it will benefit from this dynamic, based on the accomplishment of a large marketplace. Analyzing these recent developments, the Author attempts to evaluate the potential of Miami and to define the new style of the Inter-American relations, as well as to ouline the obstacles that lie on the road to a full scale hemispheric free trade.

Miami and the new Inter-American relations. The Inter-American relations have reached a new phase characterized by the growth of commercial relationships, by crossed investments and interchange of diverse kind. The Miami Metropolitan Area, strategically located at the Southern tip of the United States, close to the Straits of Florida, has become during the last two decades the main gateway for this flux of exchange to and from the Caribbean and Latin America. Taking advantage of its "hub and spokes" function through its port and its airport, it has become a large sprawling metropolis, a center of attraction for international tourism and it now vies for some kind of political status. The Miami Summit (1994) has been the platform from where the project of a Free Trade Area, encompassing the whole hemisphere (FTAA), was launched. While this idea makes some progress, Miami believes that it will benefit from this dynamic, based on the accomplishment of a large marketplace. Analyzing these recent developments, the Author attempts to evaluate the potential of Miami and to define the new style of the Inter-American relations, as well as to ouline the obstacles that lie on the road to a full scale hemispheric free trade.