In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
Posts Tagged: Free Trade Agreements
NAFTA 2.0 simply locks in existing drives toward ecological collapse and social inequality. A better deal would put people — and nature — first.
Donald Trump seems to think Mexicans made out like bandits from NAFTA. In reality, workers in all three NAFTA countries have suffered.
From immigration to the drug war, there's a lot that needs fixing in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. But border walls, hate speech, and deportations won't do it.
A decade ago, a transnational coalition beat back the largest corporate trade deal in history. Here's what they can teach opponents of the TPP.
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad news for workers and worse news for women.
A transatlantic trade deal would eliminate restrictions on U.S. exports of fracked gas to the EU.
The Obama administration's trade negotiators are quietly selling out workers and the environment in a massive Bush-style trade agreement.
The U.S.-South Korea FTA is broken and not worth fixing.
At stake in El Salvador's movement to ban mining is the question of whether private interests can trump national sovereignty.