El partido Pachakutik, movimiento político de la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (Conaie), amenazó hoy al presidente de Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio, con enjuiciarlo si su gobierno suscribe el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) andino con Estados Unidos.
The region-wide campaign against the US-Andean free trade agreement (FTA) made important, if partial, achievements in 2005. The FTA negotiation has been delayed thanks to social pressure, but it has not been stopped.
Students and police have clashed again in Ecuador, as protests against a possible rise in bus fares entered a second week. The students also want the government to cancel its contract with the Occidental Petroleum Corporation and for it to refuse to join the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
Estudiantes de Quito volvieron a cortar las principales avenidas de la ciudad para protestar contra un posible aumento en las tarifas del transporte y contra el TLC. Las organizaciones estudiantiles presentarán una demanda por la represión policial
La campaña continental contra el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) Andino ha obtenido en la gestión 2005 victorias importantes, aunque todavía parciales. La negociación del acuerdo comercial se prolonga más de la cuenta gracias a la presión social, pero no se ha detenido.
Quito.- Unos 2 mil miembros de organizaciones sociales, estudiantiles y agrupaciones de izquierda protagonizaron el pasado miércoles una marcha en oposición del tratado de libre comercio que Ecuador negocia con Estados Unidos
Bangkok, 13 ene (PL) No obstante las protestas en la calle y en el parlamento, los gobiernos de Tailandia y Estados Unidos continuaron negociando los términos de un tratado de libre comercio en la norteña ciudad de Chiang Mai
Guatemala, 13 ene (PL) Representantes de diversos sectores sociales y populares de Guatemala protestarán hoy contra la privatización, la violencia, y el muro fronterizo de Estados Unidos para frenar a los inmigrantes
Los productores agrarios de la región realizarán una marcha latinoamericana en la segunda quincena de enero, en contra de la eventual suscripción del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Estados Unidos
EGAT’s privatization and the US trade talks represent the most ambitious efforts of two of Thaksin’s core economic platforms: the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the proliferation of bilateral FTAs. So it is no surprise that both issues crystallize the wider debate on the state of democracy and the country’s development path.
The Thai-US free-trade talks hit a snag yesterday after the head Thai negotiator for intellectual-property rights declared demands by the US for Thailand to tighten up drug patenting as “unacceptable”.
Thai AIDS activists and their international allies are
seeking suspension of scheduled trade talks that threaten to undermine
Thailand’s lawful ability to produce, import/export, and market low-cost
generic versions of life-saving medicines.
Today, around 8000 people were demonstrating in Chiang Mai. A couple of people trying to enter the hotel where the US and Thai negotiating teams were meeting were beaten by the police. 30 people tried to swim across the river to reach the hotel and were beaten too.
Un grupo de estudiantes del movimiento FER-29 realizó, en horas del mediodía de hoy martes, una protesta frente a la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Panamá
Over 8,000 protesters from an alliance of 11 groups opposing the Thai-US free trade area (FTA) agreement took to the streets of this northern city yesterday to demand what they termed unfair trade negotiations be scrapped.
Thousands of Thais representing a diverse swath of society ranging from garlic growers to HIV/AIDS activists gathered outside a hotel in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai Monday to protest closed-door talks on a Thai-US free trade agreement (FTA).
Rallies against free-trade talks between Thai and US officials today are set to draw a record number of protesters. Here are the reasons for this given by some planning to attend the protests.
The civic sector joined forces against the ongoing Thai-US free trade agreement (FTA) pact by drawing up a petition stating that it does not approve the mandate of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as being a representative of the Thai people in signing the deal.
Farm workers, HIV/Aids, poverty NGOs vow to disrupt event. The sixth round of free-trade talks with the United States next week in Chiang Mai will face the wrath about 10,000 protesters from 12 special-interest groups which have vowed to rally throughout the five-day meeting.