Architect of North American Union Says Merger "Just Crisis Away"

In October Dr. Robert Pastor, a American University professor and key intellectual force in development of a plan by the Council for Foreign Relations to integrate the US, Mexico and Canada, told a Spanish magazine he thought a "new 9/11 crisis" could expedite the merger of the three nations into a European-styled North American Union.

"Pastor had published an interview in Spanish in the Oct. 24 issue of Poder y Negocios. He told the magazine crises can force decisions that otherwise would not be made.

'The 9/11 crisis made Canada and the United States redefine the protection of their borders,' Pastor explained. 'The debt crisis in Mexico forced the government to adapt a new economic model. The crises oblige the governments to make difficult decisions'."

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