00631nam a2200085Ia 4500245007100000260000900071500000700080520043900087583001900526  aALLIANCE for trade : Latin America's new commercial opportunities.  c1997  aDC  aNotes that two years ago the hemisphere's leaders met in Miami and pledged to start creating a regional free trade area by the year 2005.  Mexico's peso crash and US politics have slowed the hoped-for entry of Chile into NAFTA, considered a first step toward regional integration.  Business leaders hope that the third annual meeting of the hemisphere's trade ministers, hosted by Brazil in mid-May, will provide some needed momentum.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR