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Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer
January 6, 201420 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.
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Forty years after fascist coup, Chile may elect socialist, again
September 11, 2013Forty years ago today Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a U.S.-abetted coup because he was a socialist; in two months Chileans may elect Michelle Bachelet, another socialist.
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Urge to lawmakers: Use Trans-Pacific trade pact to favor workers
May 31, 2012The AFL-CIO is urging Congress and the Obama administration to use negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Pact to redo U.S. trade policy to support workers.
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Striking Los Mineros leader describes horrifying conditions
May 18, 2012Our town is where the Mexican Revolution began in 1906, at a time when miners there were virtually enslaved.
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U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement
March 16, 2012The United States and South Korea mark the beginning of their free trade pact; labor and farmers remain opposed to deal as too procorporate.
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