Interview with a Nicaraguan Free Trade Zone Worker
By WfP Nicaragua Team “What I would like and what I hope for (my country) is that in every Free Trade Zone there be a union and that...
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Apr 15, 20143 min read
Entrevista con una trabajadora de una Zona Franca en Nicaragua
Por Equipo de APP Nicaragua ” Lo que me gustaría y deseaba es que en todos la Zonas Francas tienen un sindicato donde no fueron...
Apr 14, 20144 min read
Charter Cities: The new neoliberal experiment in Latin America
By Elizabeth Perkins, WfP Honduras Team Competition. It’s an inherent concept of U.S. meritocracy, the ‘pull yourself up by the...
Apr 14, 20144 min read
Ciudades Modelos: El nuevo experimento neoliberal en Latinoamérica
Por Elizabeth Perkins, Equipo de APP Honduras La competición. Es un concepto inherente a la meritocracia estadounidense, la mentalidad...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
What have we learned from DR-CAFTA Nearly a Decade Later: Understanding the Nicaraguan reality
By Ileana Valle, WfP Nicaragua Team According to the World Bank, Nicaragua was able to mitigate the global economic crisis in 2008. In...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
¿Qué hemos aprendido del DR-CAFTA en casi una década más tarde?: Comprendiendo la realidad nicaragüe
Por Ileana Valle, Equipo de APP Nicaragua Según el Banco Mundial, Nicaragua fue capaz de mitigar la crisis económica global en 2008. De...
Apr 7, 20146 min read
The Impact of the TPP, Part One / El Impacto del TPP, Primera Parte
Español abajo Josh Wise, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition For nearly five years now, government bureaucrats and lobbyists on both sides of...
Apr 1, 20143 min read
The Human Face (and Price) of Trade
The Witness blog series is back! This month, Witness for Peace, in close collaboration with coalition partners in the United States and...
Jun 12, 20124 min read
Workers of the Americas at Risk: The Cases of Wisconsin, Colombia, and Guatemala
by Carlos Cruz, Colombia Team The workers of the Americas are facing an all-out attack on their rights and their lives. The recent effort...
Dec 1, 20113 min read
Paying the High Price of Gold
By Brooke Denmark Witness for Peace International Team- Nicaragua This article originally appeared in the Canadian journal Alternatives...
Oct 13, 20112 min read
Foreign Direct Invasion: What “Free Trade” means for small producers
By Riahl O’Malley Witness for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Yesterday Congress passed three new Free Trade Agreements with Panama,...
Sep 1, 20114 min read
Support Jobs and Unions This Labor Day: Three Reasons to Tell Congress to Vote “No” on N
By Christine Goffredo International Team – Nicaragua Last week President Obama stated: “Let’s pass trade deals to level the playing...
Mar 8, 20103 min read
Facing the Free Trade Storm: CAFTA and Nicaraguan Families
In recent months, however, these remittances have all but disappeared. Both her brother and sister received sharp cuts in their working...
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