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> Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala have doubled over the last five years. NISGUA's teams of on-the-ground international human rights monitors work to deter violence in communities, courtrooms and at public events. > Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled during the bloodiest period of the war, currently holds a seat in the Guatemalan Congress. He is wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity. > The Xalalá hydro-electric dam is rejected by 90% of the local population because it would displace thousands of indigenous people and damage farmlands and forests. > Almost 400 mining concessions have been granted to transnational gold, silver, nickel, and zinc companies in Guatemala, posing severe threats to rural communities' social and environmental well-being. | |
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printer-friendly Trade and Development
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FTAA Introduction
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is the expansion of
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to every country in Central America,
South America and the Caribbean, except Cuba. Negotiations began right after the
completion of NAFTA in 1994 and are to be completed by 2005.
Negotiated behind closed doors, with little citizen input but plenty of suggestions
from corporations, the FTAA is yet another example of the kind of free-market
fundamentalism that has created a global race to the bottom that erodes environmental
protection, workers' livelihoods, and human rights. If you think NAFTA has been
a disaster for working families and the environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico,
this will be far worse.
People throughout the Americas are mobilizing to educate their communities about
this coming "free trade" regime. Groups around the hemisphere are working
together on an alternative agreement that will offer a workable vision of what
a fair trade agreement would look like see www.asc-hsa.org.
Hemispherically, people are organizing public referendums to ask whether or not
their governments should participate in further FTAA negotiations. Add your support
to the thousands of people who are organizing to show that NAFTA should not be
expanded but should be replaced with an international system of cooperation that
fosters social equality, human rights, cultural diversity, environmental sustainability,
and community well being. Another course is possible -- Stop the FTAA!
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