Today, the discourse among the countries of our Hemisphere is motivated by a new set of realities, and yesterday’s concerns have emerged as priorities for today’s policymakers. Education, social development, the environment, tourism, sustainable development, culture, and a number of other like-minded issues have all joined trade as priorities. Furthermore, as these have been added to the international agenda, they have tended to push aside, with relative ease, those preoccupations that we were so accustomed to hearing our leaders debate in the past.