The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) represents a new, and once again, fatally flawed free trade agreement that, if implemented, would cover nearly the entire hemisphere, including North, Central and South America – constituting 34 countries. The FTAA, although negotiated in secret, is repeatedly based on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Despite assurances to the contrary, NAFTA, which the United States, Mexico and Canada entered into in 1994, has been a disaster for workers. If the FTAA, as designed, is expanded to the entire Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Chile, workers will once again bear the brunt of a so-called "free" trade agreement which is free to transnational corporations but highly costly to the workers throughout the hemisphere. The FTAA is anything but free and anything but fair to those whose interests it will most effect.