Article: Mexican Presidents Pleads with WTO Delegates to 'Conquer' Poverty.

Sep. 11--CANCUN, Mexico--Amid protests that turned deadly Wednesday, Mexican President Vicente Fox pleaded with delegates to the World Trade Organization meeting to make poverty "the enemy that must be conquered" through fair trading rules.

Mr. Fox opened the ministerial meeting of the WTO with a speech laced with admonitions that ministers from 146 member nations ought to dismantle global trading rules that favor rich nations.

"We cannot continue closing our eyes while millions of people remain poor," Mr. Fox said. Mr. Fox's inaugural remarks echoed calls by thousands of angry Mexican farmers and foes of global trade who marched noisily through Cancun ...

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