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Peru
Peru's Prime Minister Pedro Paulo Kuczynski said on Tuesday it's "absolutely necessary" for his country to pass the free trade agreement with the U.S as the deal will allow Peruvian textile and agricultural industries to grow.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would consider returning to the Andean Community of Nations trade bloc provided Colombia and Peru reconsider their trade agreements with the US.
The Agricultural Coalition for US-Peru Trade, comprised of 58 agricultural organizations, sent a letter last week to every member of US Congress urging support of the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement. The letter states that "PTPA sets a new and higher standard for future free trade agreements."
International aid organization Oxfam criticized today's signing of the
US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Washington, an agreement it says
would do more harm than good for millions of Peruvians who live in
poverty.
Oxfam has set up a web page where you can send letters to US Congress urging them to reject the US-Peru FTA, signed last week.
The draft free trade agreement with the US still lacks a date for discussion in the Peruvian Congress Constitution Committee as the text has not yet been submitted, Parliament Speaker Antero Flores said Monday.
Ollanta Humala, frontrunner in Peru's presidential election.
Mr Humala says the deal should be put to a popular vote
Peru's decision to sign a free-trade agreement with the US has provoked a domestic political row, with critics calling for the deal to be blocked.
Peruvian farmers are organizing a march from Cusco to Lima to protest the free trade agreement with the US, the president of Peru's National Agrarian Confederation, Antolin Huascar, stated Thursday.
United States and Peru signed Wednesday a bilateral free trade treaty - two years in the making - at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington.
"El Sr. Toledo debe irse a su casa y no firmar cosas para las que ya no tiene autoridad."
