How the United States Continues to Manipulate Nicaragua's Economic and Political Future
[This analysis prepared by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs]
Toledo Introduces Peru FTA to Congress as Garcia vows to Re-negotiate
President Toledo has introduced the U.S. Peru Free Trade Agreement to Peru’s national legislature for a vote. The vote may happen as early as today. Toledo will be leaving office in late July. The new President of Peru, Alan Garcia noted in an interview on Monday that “he would insist on revising – line by line – the free-trade agreement that Peru’s outgoing government of President Alejandro Toledo signed with the United States in April.”
Poll Numbers
A blogger named Boz (whose blog is simply called Bloggings by Boz) publishes poll numbers (mostly about elections) towards the end of each week. Here’s the Nicaragua bit from this week’s entry:
The Latest on Aleman
When I come across Nicaragua-related stories reading my Bloglines feeds (I share my public feeds here) I’ll post them to Windmills with a few key paragraphs.
US loses interest in FTA with Ecuador
The chances for a short term conclusion to trade negotiations between the U.S. and Ecuador were handed a major setback last week, when the national government decided to revoke its operating contract with Occidental Petroleum and seize $1 Billion of its assets. This action was taken after the energy ministry ruled that the company had acted improperly when it transferred 40% interest in its oil fields to EnCana, a Canadian oil company.