26-Aug-2009
Health Affairs
The Central America Free Trade Agreement has kept some generic drugs from Guatemala
even though they’re available in the United States.
4-May-2008
Upside Down World
The ongoing violence against workers in Guatemala makes it clear that talk of free trade improving human rights in developing countries is lost in translation.
13-Feb-2008
Prensa Latina
Panama said Tuesday that negotiations for a free trade agreement with Guatemala is 90 percent advanced. Panama plans to negotiate a similar accord with the EU en bloc.
14-Nov-2007
Upside Down World
The loss of jobs in the agricultural industries, along with increases in the cost of living with fewer employment opportunities under CAFTA are speculated to produce economic and social hardships that will result in migration both within and outside Central American nations. Most of this migration will be directed towards Mexico and the US.
17-Oct-2007
Prensa Latina
Neoliberal policies and the free trade agreement with the US have made Guatemala rely on others to feed its population, a study published here denounces.
10-Aug-2007
Houston Chronicle
Colombia signed a free trade agreement Thursday with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that could double exports to the Central American countries in five years.
6-Aug-2007
People’s Daily
El Salvador’s President Elias Antonio Saca will travel this coming week to Colombia to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
19-Jul-2007
IRC Americas Program
The growth in exports being celebrated by the Bank of Guatemala has nothing to do with CAFTA.
19-Jul-2007
Prensa Latina
One year after CAFTA-DR took effect in Guatemala, the Guatemalan Social Organizations Collective (COS) presented evidence on Wednesday that its alleged benefits are deceptive and false.