The Bush administration has given formal notice it intends to bring the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress, and indicates it will roll Colombia and Ecuador in. We can stop this deal – even worse, than CAFTA – if we act now.
The deal:
- Contains no protection for core labor standards – even though Peru’s President offered to include them, and even though union leaders are assassinated at a rate of more than one per week in Colombia;
- Would cost jobs at home while lowering living standards in the region and forcing many farmers to turn to coca cultivation
- Would establish rules to curtail environmental protection; and
- Would deny essential generic medicines to HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria patients.
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Tell Congress: Oppose the Peru/Andean Free Trade Deal!
The deal is worse
than CAFTA. Together
we can stop it.
Tell your members of Congress to oppose the Peru/Andean Free Trade Deal!
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