"Juggling Multiple Agendas:The Struggle of Trade Unions against National, Continental, and International Neoliberalism in Argentina" Frederico M. Rossi
- Focused on resistance to FTAA in Argentina
- focusing on main coalition against this, whose central actor was the CTA (141)
- BUT the CTA's participation in block the FTAA and other intternational efforts was conditioned by their nationally focused agenda (142)
- "The CTA is a paradigmatic case of a national actor involved in transnational activism against neoliberalism operating with an exclusively domestic logic."
- the CTA saw the FTAA as an act of American imprialism that would undermine Argentina as a nation (144)
- so the frame was both international and national
- in Argentina the major coalition opposed to the FTAA was the Autoconvocatoria No al ALCA (FTAA in esp.), No a la Deuda, No a la Militarización y No a la Pobreza (144-145) formed in 2002
- linked regional groups, Catholic grops, unions, political parties (small ones) na dother social movement organizations (see, e.g 146 table)
- 2005 big summit held in Argentina against the FTAA (Hugo Chávez and Kirchner had already come out against the agreement (148)
- CTa in this instance joined a transnational/international movement, but nevertheless did not shift its national focus (150)
- FTAA essentially dead by 2006
- ORIt dissolved by 2008, in favor of new regional union, the CSA, so CTA OK with joiningit because it doesn't ahve Cold War history. At the same time, CTA bows out of Autoconvocatoria (which had been renamed) because the grop couldn't figure out a positive plan (only a negative one: boo to neoliberalism) (153)
- yet CSA hasn't made a big splash yet, are still trying to get their feet under them
- since 2009 CTA has done a lot more south-south coordination, though not much has really happened so far
- CTAs interaction with Kirchner led to a general shift toward focus on domestic policies to the detriment of international actions (154)
- YET THROUGHOUT AL OF THIS CTA REMAINED INVOLVED IN MERCOSUR, implementing social accords, etc. etc. (154)
- CTA has simultaneous and PARALLEL agendas (155)
- some domestic focus, some international focus, some regional focus, but the three rarely ever connect
- made some gains on domestic front with Kirchner
- gains on international front mostly due to gains with domestic front
- so why still with Mercosur? (156)
- gets CTA working with Arg. foreign policy
- is some recognition that CTA could play into better domestic recognition
- and Mercosur seems like a vaiable alternative to FTAA, allows CTA some power whereas FTAA probably wouldn't
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