ISDS Case Map
CAFTA
US - Central America Free Trade Agreement
“El texto del proyecto de ley que se tramita bajo el expediente No. 16.047, ‘Tratado de Libre Comercio República Dominicana - Centroamérica - Estados Unidos' (TLC), en virtud de contener disposiciones normativas que pueden afectar directamente a los pueblos indígenas, debe ser consultado a esas comunidades (...)”. Con este párrafo concluye un informe en el cual el Departamento de Servicios Técnicos de la Asamblea Legislativa se pronuncia sobre la obligatoriedad de consultar a las comunidades indígenas del país sobre el polémico tratado comercial.
Remember during the debate over the Central American Free Trade Agreement, every Republican politician and corporate lobbyist was giving the public the "free trade creates American jobs" line? It's a line that America has become used to hearing from Washington, D.C. -- even though, as both Hostile Takeover and Take This Job and Ship It show, this mantra has no relation to reality.
After a month and five days of implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, Guatemala is suffering from this pact's asymmetries and is suing the northern country for unfair competition.
Some 60 Costa Rican ecologist organizations protested Monday against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Central America and the United States, due to its risk for the environment.
Thailand's anti-FTA movements have formed an alliance with counterparts in other countries including South Korea, Costa Rica and Colombia against US efforts to strike bilateral trade agreements across the globe.
Fernando Alvarez Bogaert, former Finances minister, said Friday that the validity of the Central American-Dominican Republic-US Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), put off for this month, could wreck national production if enacted.
One year after the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) narrowly passed in the US House of Representatives, the agreement has failed to live up to its supporters' claims.
The process of negotiating, ratifying, and implementing so-called "free" trade agreements like CAFTA is out of control, and the time has come to say "enough is enough!"
The free trade agreement between the US and Central America will have a negative effect on the human right to live, according to a thesis by regional analysts in Guatemala.
Being that Guatemala has just recently implemented the Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), only Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic remain as the two signatories that still are not enforcing the agreement.
