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CAFTA News Archive

05/22/06 Fears and Hopes Raised by Free Trade with US (Inter Press Service)
04/29/06 In El Salvador, an invasion of American agriculture (The Boston Globe)
03/01/06 CAFTA's Corpse Revived (TheNation.com)
02/07/06 Trade Accord With U.S. Splits Voters in Costa Rica (Los Angeles Times)
01/11/06 Bush Administration Using Implementation of CAFTA Agreement to Further Expand Corporate Rights in Central America (CommonDreams.org )
01/09/06 Anti-trade feelings delay CAFTA (Los Angeles Times)
01/05/06 Central American Public Opinion Balks on Further U.S. Demands (IRC Americas Program Commentary)
09/20/05 Trade Pact Votes May Haunt Lawmakers (The Wall Street Journal)
09/19/05 After NAFTA—CAFTA and AFTA (Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC))
08/23/05 Trade tribunals must not trump state, local laws (San Francisco Chronicle)
08/21/05 U.S. Trade Pact Divides the Central Americans, With Farmers and Others Fearful (New York Times)
08/05/05 Three Anti-CAFTA Republicans Have Road Projects Slashed (National Journal's CongressDailyPM)
08/01/05 Politics and CAFTA (Washington Trade Daily)
07/29/05 CAFTA Voting Irregularities (Democracy Now!)
07/28/05 House Clears CAFTA 217 to 215 (Washington Trade Daily)
07/28/05 Democracy Sold Out – CAFTA Approved by Pork and a Hill of Beans (commondreams.org)
07/25/05 White House Barters for Trade Pact Votes (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
07/18/05 Cafta Is No Cure-All For Central America (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
07/18/05 State Sees Conflict in Trade Pact (Los Angeles Times)
07/06/05 CAFTA Reflects Democrats' Shift From Trade Bills (Washington Post)
07/01/05 CAFTA Squeaks by Senate, By Tiniest Margin Ever for Trade Bill in History (Common Dreams)
06/29/05 Labor Department Blocked Cafta Trade Reports, Internal Documents Show (Associated Press)
06/28/05 U.S. trade rep helps powerful drug industry (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER)
06/24/05 At Long Last, Bush Sends CAFTA to Congress (Global Exchange)
06/22/05 For CAFTA, Party Pressure and Pork (Washington Post)
06/21/05 THOUSANDS OF U.S. BUSINESSES URGE BUSH TO SCRAP CAFTA (U.S. Business and Industry Council)
06/16/05 New Public Citizen Report Documents Systematic Bipartisan Betrayals on “Deals” Made in Exchange for Trade Votes, from Clinton’s NAFTA Deals to Bush Deals (Public Citizen)
06/16/05 House Ways and Means Approves CAFTA (Washington Trade Daily)
06/14/05 U.S. Senate Committee Moves Toward Recommending Cafta (Bloomberg)
06/08/05 Bush at OAS: Same Old “Free Trade” Tune (commondreams.org)
06/07/05 ‘Free trade' pacts can use ‘barriers to trade' clause to undercut U.S. laws (The San Jose Mercury News)
06/06/05 CAFTA: Experience Does Not Bode Well (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
05/31/05 Yes to Democracy, No to "Free Trade" (Alternet)
05/26/05 Hispanic Caucus opposes CAFTA in a 14-1 vote (The Hill)
05/13/05 Bush Brings In Backup to Help Sell CAFTA (Washington Post )
05/11/05 Letter to US Congress from Environmental groups (Central American environmental organizations)
05/10/05 Free Trade Pact Faces Trouble in Congress (The New York Times)
05/07/05 Letter to US Congress (Guatemala civil society organizations)
05/04/05 Pro-trade U.S. Democrats deal blow to CAFTA (Reuters)
05/04/05 Central America lags on labor rights for trade deal (Reuters)
04/16/05 CAFTA will drive wages in the United States even lower (Miami Herald)
03/31/05 The Skinny on CAFTA (The Wall Street Journal)
03/30/05 Guatemalan HIV patients slam new trade rules (Reuters)
03/30/05 CAFTA's Profit Motive (Washington Post)
03/24/05 El Salvador lags despite trade winds (Chicago Tribune)
03/21/05 A Bad Deal on Free Trade (The Boston Globe)
03/17/05 Bush Names Congressman as Trade Representative (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS )
03/16/05 DEMONSTRATORS SHOT AND KILLED BY GUATEMALAN ARMY (Guatemala Human Rights Commission)
03/02/05 Thousands protest trade pact in Guatemala (Associated Press)
03/02/05 Poll: Most Americans give thumbs-down to CAFTA trade pact (Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel)
03/01/05 USAID FUNDS FOR CAFTA GROUP VIOLATED U.S. FEDERAL AND USAID LOBBYING RESTRICTIONS (Congressman Sherrod Brown)
02/23/05 Human Rights Attorneys of Central America Worried about the FTA and Transgenics (Agence France Presse )
02/23/05 Peitiion to Members of the U.S. Congress, from Central American social movements (Fifth mesoAmerican Forum of the People)
02/15/05 CAFTA draws jeers from Latino organizations (Hispanic Link News Service)
02/10/05 Trading away our jobs (San Diego Union-Tribune)
02/05/05 Relator alarmado por hambre en el país (Prensa Libre)
02/01/05 Bush faces hard battle for free trade bill (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
01/31/05 A Fight We Can Win (The Nation)
01/18/05 Central American unions slam CAFTA as racist (Tiempo Digital, Honduras)
01/03/05 U.S.-Central American Trade Deal Lacks Support, Opponents Say (Bloomberg)
12/22/04 Latin American bishops urge caution on free trade agreements (Catholic News Service)
12/06/04 Crossroad for CAFTA (Miami Herald)
12/02/04 Slaying of U.S. Labor Organizer Opens Old Wounds in El Salvador (Washington Post)
11/22/04 Democrats Question Grant To Central American Biz Groups (National Journal's CongressDailyPM)
11/16/04 A Raw Deal For Rice (Oxfam America)
10/19/04 US Investers Emerge as CAFTA Winners (Scoop (New Zealand))
10/05/04 State sugar beet growers sour on proposed trade pact (Denver Post)
08/29/04 A bittersweet struggle (Palm Beach Post)
08/05/04 Health care difficult in Central America (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER)
07/29/04 Guatemala Farm Rape Clouds Free Trade Debate (Reuters)
07/20/04 Latino group blasts US trade accord Says pact hurts Central America (Boston Globe)
06/13/04 CAFTA: A Topic for Women (Peru.21)
05/28/04 Trade Pact Signed Today (San Francisco Chronicle)
04/06/04 Divide and Conquer: Bilateral Trade Agreements (The Dominion)
03/14/04 CONGRESSIONAL ACTION SEEN AS DOUBTFUL ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FTA IN 2004 (Inside US Trade )
03/03/04 Dem split stalls free trade pact (The Hill)


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