Free Trade Agreements, Environment
This Week in the Americas Timely Demise for Free Trade Area of the Americas By Laura Carlsen The stage was set for a showdown. When the Bush cabinet announced intentions to revive the moribund Free Trade Area of the Americas at the Fourth Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, the countries of the [...]
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By irc
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By rosen
Juan Contreras, a veteran community organizer in a working-class Caracas barrio, shows me around the barrio’s new Casa de Encuentro, a meeting house and cultural center. The center just two months ago housed a much-feared unit of the Caracas Metropolitan Police. 1 On August 22 the building was seized by barrio residents led by Contreras [...]
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By irc
Laura Carlsen was a guest on KPFA’s Morning Show to discuss the results of the Summit of the Americas. Carlsen noted that, “The Summit was a major step forward in defeating the Bush administration agenda to impose the Free Trade Area of the Americas on the hemisphere. The Mercosur countries remained united in their opposition [...]
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By hinchberger
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Read more →Regional Integration After the Collapse of the FTAA
By Raúl Zibechi
Although every Latin American government pays lip service to integration, taking the concrete steps needed to attain it is much more difficult than simply issuing declarations. In the wake of the collapse of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), Latin America faces the dilemma of remaining divided and at the mercy of the [...]
Read more →It’s Time to Boost, Not Reduce, Trinational Environmental Cooperation
By alanis
The Mexican government announced in September that it was making a significant reduction in Mexico’s contribution to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The CEC is a product of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) environmental side accord, created in response to demands from civil society, unions, academics, and Congressional representatives from Mexico, Canada, [...]
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