The experience of the countries that have been put under the neoliberal policies and the FTA, the results of the economic opening imposed by the Government of President Gaviria, the process of negotiation between Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the USA, puts in evidence that the right to democratic and popular consultation and resistance is justified.

La campaña ha incorporado a su calendario la realización de
actividades a nivel continental con motivo de la Semana de Acción Global contra el Libre Comercio (10-16 de abril 2005), que viene siendo impulsada por
varias organizaciones y movimientos de todo el planeta.

Sindicatos, trabajadores independientes, campesinos, indígenas y hasta congresistas protestaron este jueves en Cartagena y en otras ciudades colombianas contra el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) que negocian en esta ciudad los países andinos Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, con Estados Unidos.

The Ecuadorian Peasant Confederation CONFEUNASSC-CNC, member of the CLOC
(Coordinator of Latin American Organizations of the Countryside) and Vía
Campesina, committed to the continental Campaign in struggle against the
FTAA, is making a callout to join forces with the Days of Resistance and
Struggle against the neo-FTAA, known as the bilateral Free Trade
Agreement, to take place in Quito on the 17 of April, the International
day of Peasant Struggle.