Guatemala
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24-May-2018 Prensa Libre
Estado de Guatemala se expone a nuevo arbitraje internacional
Guatemala se expone a un nuevo arbitraje internacional con posibilidad de una demanda millonaria debido a la suspensión de operaciones del proyecto minero El Tambor, propiedad de Exmingua.
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24-May-2018 BN Americas
Miner planning US$300mn Guatemala arbitration
Exmingua is planning to launch arbitration proceedings against Guatemala following the suspension of its Tambor gold project.
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19-Oct-2017 Upside Down World
Being a trade unionist in Guatemala will get you killed
A chapter on labor issues within CAFTA was to provide an improved environment for labor rights. But the Guatemalan state has consistently failed to implement these protections.
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6-Jul-2017 AFL-CIO
U.S. trade policy fails workers
This decision drives home the fact that U.S. trade deals do not protect workers. In truth, this failure is by design—labor chapters were not meant to work efficiently or effectively.
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3-Jul-2017 People’s World
After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions
“The panel’s decision flies in the face of common sense. Guatemala’s failure to protect its workers and enforce its own laws is apparent to nearly everyone except the arbitrators.”
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28-Jun-2017 Politico
Guatemala off the hook in CAFTA labor case
The U.S., for the most part, lost its first challenge of another country’s adherence to the labor rules under a trade deal.
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3-Apr-2017 Politico
Guatemala agrees to early poultry tariff elimination
Guatemala has agreed to eliminate its 12.5 percent tariff on U.S. fresh, frozen and chilled poultry products under the U.S.-DR-CAFTA free trade agreement
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3-Apr-2017 Prensa Libre
Corea retira textos del país del Tratado de Libre Comercio
El equipo técnico de negociación de Corea del Sur decidió retirar de los textos del acuerdo comercial negociado, los capítulos acordados con Guatemala, ante la negativa del país de firmar el acuerdo comercial en junio próximo.
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17-Mar-2017 El Economista
Guatemala negociará TLC bilateral con Corea del Sur
Guatemala se ha quedado fuera del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Corea del Sur y Centroamérica, un acuerdo que incluye también a Panamá.
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3-Jan-2017 Alainet
Centroamericanos en tránsito por México, migración forzada y carencia de derechos
Actualmente la migración forzada se vincula, tanto a problemas ambientales y de aguda precariedad económica, como a procesos de violencia de distinto tipo y escala.
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30-Sep-2016 El País
Mediadores del CAFTA en controversia de EE.UU. y Guatemala entregan informe
El grupo arbitral que dirime la controversia entre EE.UU. y Guatemala por supuestas violaciones de los derechos laborales en el país centroamericano, entregó el informe inicial a las partes, informó hoy una fuente oficial.
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22-Jun-2016 Minería en Línea
Minera amenaza a Guatemala de poner demanda en Estados Unidos
La empresa Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, S. A. (Exmingua) amenaza hoy con colocar una demanda contra el Estado de Guatemala tras verse obligada a suspender sus operaciones por decreto de la Corte de Constitucionalidad (CC).
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21-Jun-2016 Politico
Guatemala labor case drags on
A long-running dispute over Guatemala’s compliance with the labor provisions in the Central American Free Trade Agreement won’t be resolved soon.
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21-Jun-2016 Upside Down World
Rural communities’ struggle against US-owned mine continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts.
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20-Jun-2016 Prensa Latina
Mining company threatens Guatemala with lawsuit in USA
The Guatemala Mining Explorations (Exmingua) threatens with filing a lawsuit against Guatemala after being forced to suspend operations by decree of the Constitutional Court .
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24-May-2016 Alainet
Los migrantes del sur, los rostros contemporáneos de la exclusión y la marginación.
Las migraciones actuales, como macro movimientos internacionales de centenas de miles de personas con y sin documentos -y en no pocas ocasiones en precarias condiciones de tránsito-, han sido y son uno de los procesos sociales que han caracterizado lo que acontece en diversas latitudes del orbe en el cambio de siglo, en el contexto mundial de la reestructuración económica neoliberal dirigida por las empresas transnacionales y los países capitalistas del primer mundo
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4-Mar-2016 Alai
Migrants from the South, the contemporary faces of exclusion and marginalization
Today’s migrations, as macro international displacements of hundreds of thousands of people with or without documents — in many cases in precarious conditions of transit — have been and are one of the social processes that characterize what is happening in different latitudes of the earth since in the new century, in the global context of neoliberal economic restructuring directed by transnational enterprises and the capitalist countries of the first world.
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12-Nov-2015 International Business Times
As US promotes TPP as a way to improve labor standards, Guatemala shows failed promises of previous trade deals
When Guatemala joined CAFTA in 2006, proponents of the deal said it would improve conditions for workers. Seven years later, Guatemala was named the most dangerous country for trade unionists. Supporters of the TPP are making many of the same promises.
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17-Sep-2015 In These Times
Think free-trade deals can raise labor standards? This case suggests otherwise
The Obama administration promotes the TPP as “the most progressive trade bill in history,” with the highest labor standards yet but similar promises have been trotted out to justify every free-trade agreement from NAFTA on.
