2-Mar-2011
Upside Down World
Last week Canadian negotiators met with their Honduran counterparts in Tegucigalpa to discuss a free trade agreement (FTA).
25-Oct-2009
Fight Back! News
Meredith Aby, of the Anti-War Committee and the Colombia Action Network, explained the root of the coup, "While in office Zelaya took some strong stands to help his people, like increasing the minimum wage and standing with ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) against the US’s free trade agenda in the region."
30-Jul-2009
Upside Down World
Zelaya joined the Venezuelan proposed ALBA, a fair trade alternative to Washington’s now-defunct Free Trade Area of the Americas, but is no Chavez puppet, despite what the all-out PR war from Washington-based business groups claims
30-Jun-2009
Upside Down World
Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya — a defender of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) and of Honduran workers and peasants, according to Via Campesina — be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
20-Jan-2009
Florida Shipper
The free trade agreement between Panama and Honduras took effect on Jan. 9. The agreement has an impact on 80 percent of the goods traded between the countries.
16-Jul-2008
Monsters and Critics
Taiwan’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Honduras has gone into effect, further expanding trade ties between Taipei and Tegucigalpa, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.