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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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Introduction
CAFTA
Over the last two years, the U.S. government has negotiated, without serious
public participation or consultation, a free trade agreement called the Dominican
Republic - U.S. - Central America Free Trade Agreement, better known as CAFTA.
Modeled along the lines of NAFTA, CAFTA promotes the "rights" of corporations
at the expense of local populations.
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PPP
Introduced by President Vicente Fox of Mexico in 2001 and later joined by all Central American Presidents, the PPP is a $10 billion, 10 to 25 year regional integration project to create and interconnect transportation routes, industrial corridors and a variety of infrastructure projects throughout Mesoamerica (Southern Mexico and Central America), and firmly root the global "free trade" agenda in the region. The primary objective of the PPP is to consolidate what is a highly contested neoliberal "vision of development."
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FTAA
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. Being 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.
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