8-Oct-2007
US intervention, corruption, and an internationally financed fear campaign provoke questions about referendum process
8-Oct-2007
Forbes
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela may return to the Andean Community, or CAN, because leftist leaders in Bolivia and Ecuador who have resisted free trade deals with the United States could help to transform the regional trade bloc.
8-Oct-2007
Inquirer
The jobs of at least 77,000 as well as tens of thousands of iron and steel workers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, on the automotive industry are imperiled as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) threatens to destroy the country's automotive industry, said Frank Mero, national president of the Philippine Metalworkers' Alliance and of the Automotive Industry Workers' Alliance.
8-Oct-2007
GMA
Legal luminaries insist on the unconstitutionality of the proposed Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), presently under scrutiny by the Philippine Senate
8-Oct-2007
Yonhap
South Korea and Southeast Asian nations have reached a free trade deal on services, raising the possibility of finalizing free trade talks by the end of this year.
8-Oct-2007
Costa Ricans narrowly approved -- 52% said yes, 48% said no -- a free trade deal with the United States in a referendum on Sunday that has split the Central American nation like no other issue in decades.
8-Oct-2007
Scoop
Despite the overwhelming evidence of workers' rights being routinely abused, DR-CAFTA offers no solution.
7-Oct-2007
HuffPost
It is politically inconceivable that the Democratic majority in Congress -- which voted against CAFTA when it was approved here -- would move to punish Costa Rica for its voters having rejected the same agreement.
7-Oct-2007
Prensa Latina
Nearly 2.7 million people will vote today to decide whether CAFTA is to be ratified or not, an unprecedented happening in the political history of Costa Rica.
7-Oct-2007
Reuters
The European Union and countries in the Caribbean failed to agree on a new trade and investment deal in two days of talks that ended on Friday. EU officials had expected the Caribbean to become the first of the ACP regions to agree to a new deal.
