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Silent expansion
15-Apr-2020 CEO
Many countries, particularly in the global south, are in the process of joining the Energy Charter Treaty despite the sweeping powers it grants to foreign investors.
Guatemalan water protectors persist, despite mining company threats
27-Mar-2020 Inequality.org
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout Latin America and around the world.
Mining companies use excessive legal powers to gamble with Latin American lives
13-May-2019 Inequality
In more than two-thirds of the mining-related lawsuits against governments in the region, communities have actively organizing against the mining activities.
New report exposes mining companies suing Latin American countries where communities defend land and environment
2-May-2019 Mining Watch
We analyzed 38 multi-million dollar claims brought by the mining industry using ISDS and other investment protection laws; in over half, communities are fighting to protect Indigenous territory, water, and more.
The battle for Latin America: How the US helped destroy the “pink tide”
23-Apr-2019 Counter Punch
After sponsoring juntas until well into the 1990s, the US went after Central and South America with “free trade” deals before once again working with extremists.
China’s construction binge spreads to Americas, rattles US
4-Apr-2019 AP
China’s expansion in Latin America of its Belt and Road initiative to build ports and other trade-related facilities is stirring alarm in Washington over Beijing’s ambitions in a region that American leaders since the 19th century have seen as off-limits to other powers.
Winners and losers
23-Feb-2019 New Internationalist
How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its two Latin American gateways
18-Feb-2019 Clyde & Co
Chile and Panama offer China two important physical entry points into Latin America. Chile features an attractive legal framework for the protection of Chinese investments in the country. Panama is following suit. A ripple effect in the region is foreseeable.
Conflicts between Latin American countries and transnational corporations: The challenges of the region in the face of asymmetrical investment treaties
8-Aug-2018 IISD
Facing multimillion dollar claims, many Latin American states have become critical of investment arbitration. A group of researchers building a database of legal and policy tools aims to change this.
Deported Mexicans: From exploited and precarious workers to forced migrants of return
30-Apr-2018 ALAINET.ORG.
Forced migrants, refugees and deportees are an irrefutable and undeniable example of the world as a chronically unequal and structurally inequitable scenario. In the era of globalization, human rights are not met or respected.
Peru: Final statement from the people’s summit
17-Apr-2018 News Click
The representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean, met in Lima, Peru from April 10 to 14, 2018 to discuss the political, social and economic reality of Our America.
Indonesia turns to Latin America to diversify trade portfolio
23-Feb-2018 Oxford Business Group
After achieving a foreign trade surplus last year on the back of strong demand for minerals and agricultural products, Indonesia is looking to sustain growth by building ties with new markets, as well as deepening relationships with existing partners.
China willing to negotiate signing of free trade agreements with Uruguay
25-Jan-2018 Xinhua
China is willing to negotiate step by step free trade agreements with Uruguay and other countries in South America.
Chinese FM meets Chile’s president-elect on bilateral ties
22-Jan-2018 Xinhua
China is willing to further deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership with Chile, and enhance cooperation with Latin America within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.
China announces it will begin “a greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere
4-Jan-2018 MercoPress
Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning Beijing will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere.
ISDS in numbers
14-Dec-2017 TNI
Impacts of investment arbitration against Latin America and the Carribbean.
A Belt and Road for the Americas?
24-Nov-2017 Project Syndicate
As Canada, Mexico, and the United States focus on the next round of negotiations on NAFTA, governments in the rest of the Americas are grappling with a more fundamental question about trade. Who will be their dominant trade partner in the future: the US, Europe, or China?
What to do about the EU’s new trade agenda in Latin America?
24-Nov-2017 Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung
About ten years ago, the European Union (EU) introduced Global Europe, its most ambitious trade policy strategy to date. It was intended to open up new markets worldwide through new bilateral trade and investment agreements.
Peru free trade agreement could help India diversify in LatAm region
8-Feb-2017 Financial Express
A proposed comprehensive free trade agreement between India and Peru covering goods, services and investments may not only raise India’s export volumes to the western South American nation
Call to action! Let’s put a stop to the WTO’s agenda and to Free Trade Agreements and investment provisions!
11-Jan-2017 Argentina Better Without an FTA
Let’s build commercial relations that serve peoples’ interests and protect the environment! In 2017, let’s bring the ‘battle in Seattle’ to Buenos Aires!