Twenty years after its implementation, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has helped boost intraregional trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, but has fallen short of generating the jobs and the deeper regional economic integration its advocates promised decades ago.
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Being enlightened means being open-minded, having a clear view of the world, without ties to preconceebed ideas.
In an enlightened society the priority is the good of the people as a whole, where <em>reason</em> is the primary source of knowledge, and <em>freedom</em> is the main condition to achieve enlightment, and especially freedom to make public use of reason; so people must be free to think thus grow.
I think he uses a metaphor about africa being a cake and he wants a piece of it, like the rest of of the european powers
