Evictions and Megaprojects: Two Sides of the Same Coin
2008 Noviembre El Salvador
Carmelo Cabrera, president of the Association of United Peoples, has endured 36 trials, 6 arrests and 28 days in prison, always under the same charges,...

Now in ALBA, Always in Impunity
2008 Septiembre Honduras
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez came to Honduras to shake things up, bringing his brainchild, the Latin American Bolivarian Alternative (ALBA), in...

A Portrait of the Region’s Large Economic Groups
2007 Marzo Centroamérica
Central America’s economic groups are increasingly operating on a regional and international scale and the transnational corporations with activities...

The Concentration of Power: More Integration and Inequality
2007 Febrero Centroamérica
Over the last 30 years the Central American region’s economies and societies have experienced a dramatic change influenced by four factors: armed conflicts...

“CAFTA Will Be Like a Brand-Name Hurricane Mitch”
2005 Septiembre Nicaragua
The Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States (now known as DR-CAFTA following the inclusion of the Dominican Republic) contained...

CAFTA: A Disempowering Fetish
2005 Abril Centroamérica
Both supporters and opponents of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States describe it as a watershed, a line that will...

What Was Signed Away in CAFTA Threatens Millions of Lives
2004 Agosto Centroamérica
When it comes to public health, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is effectively backtracking on previous advances. This can be illustrated...

What’s in Store for Us Following the Signing of CAFTA?
2004 Enero Centroamérica
Only four countries signed the free trade agreement (FTA) between Central America and the United States on December 17, 2003: Guatemala, El Salvador,...

CAFTA: “We’re Defining Whether We’ll Commit Suicide or Die a Natural Death”
2003 Octubre Nicaragua
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is testing our economic organizations’ capacity to make technical and political proposals that can...

"We're Saying No to CAFTA With Arguments and Conditions"
2003 Octubre Nicaragua
In UNAG we have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States—which we’re already...

Central American-US Free Trade Agreement: Opportunity or Nightmare for Nicaragua?
2003 Septiembre Nicaragua
Kenneth Hoadley, a professional with no leftist leanings, is the rector of the El Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School, a prestigious agronomy and...

The Puebla Panama Plan In a Nutshell
2002 Noviembre Centroamérica
The Puebla Panama Plan (PPP) is easy to explain. It is an enormous infrastructure project designed to favor big business in an area consisting of the...

Central America: The FTAA Guinea Pig?
2002 Junio Centroamérica
The United States did not choose El Salvador to host President Bush’s March 24 visit to Central America because it was a model of democracy or an economic...

Key Elements of the Honduras-Nicaragua Territorial Conflict
2000 Enero Internacional
On November 30, 1999, Honduras suddenly and secretly ratified a treaty it had signed with Colombia over a decade earlier, on August 2, 1986, in which...

"We Need a National Accord to Control Corruption"
1998 Junio Nicaragua
IN NICARAGUA, THE GUIDE WIRE OF THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY RUNS PARALLEL TO EFFORTS TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION. THOUGH THE many scandals we are observing...

"We Need Fair Trade, Not Free Trade"
1998 Junio América Latina
AS MEMBERS OF UNIONS, SOCIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF WOMEN, indigenous, educators, environmentalists and parliamentarians...

The Central American Integration: Open Agenda and Pending Dilemma
1998 Abril Centroamérica
The 1990s resemble the 1950s in terms of the profusion of trade and integration accords worldwide. The delays and difficulties faced by the Uruguay...

Summit of the Americas: Only the US Wins
1995 Febrero América Latina
The Summit of the Americas, held in Miami on December 9 11, 1994, enjoyed the presence of all but one of the 35 heads of state from the Americas and...

Central America's Alternative: Integration from Below
1994 Febrero Centroamérica
The whole world speaks of "globalization" to characterize the process that has been underway in this final decade of the 20th century and in the wake...

NAFTA: More than just Free Trade
1994 Enero México
Discussions about NAFTA tend to atomize its complex and multiple variables. If these discussions simply obeyed epistemological vices or academic deficiencies,...