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Japanese farmers protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Tokyo. Their banner reads: ‘We absolutely oppose Japan’s participation to TPP.’ Farmers in the US are pushing for Japan to join the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way to gain access to the world’s third-largest economy as automakers seek to exclude the Asian nation until it [...]  United States Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to provide US$50 million in development assistance for Peru this year. Deborah Kennedy, USAID’s Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, that Peru has eradicated 14,000 hectares of illegal coca crops last year and said that the Peruvian government is now more [...] A columnist examines what a different election outcome would have meant for democracy in Latin America: While Obama’s stance toward Latin America has been far from progressive recognizing coup governments of Honduras and Paraguay; signing free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Peru; and dragging feet on immigration reform – it is the “diet” imperialism [...]
‘The canal no longer solely depends on the world’s main economies,’ said Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Quijano. A record amount of cargo crossed the Panama Canal over the past 12 months, largely fueled by economic growth in Latin America, the waterway’s top administrator said. Nearly 334 million tonnes of cargo crossed the canal during fiscal [...]
Transparency has become an issue of the Pacific-region talks, with consumer, labor and environmental groups siding with some U.S. lawmakers who want participants to make their positions public. Dozens of groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and International Brotherhood of Teamsters met with negotiators during Pacific-region trade talks in Leesburg, Virginia, as protesters called [...] Colombian and U.S. soldiers set up communications in a warehouse, August 7 at Fort Sam Houston in preparation for Fuerzas Aliadas Panamax. Commonly known as PANAMAX, the U. S. Southern Command sponsored exercise brings U. S. Army South and 17 other partner nation military air and land sea forces together in a joint and [...] From the Alliance for Global Justice: The Solidarity Center office in Bogotá has received an unusually large two-year grant of $3 million for its operations in the Andean Region. The scope and dimensions of the grant are not fully known, nor the exact programs to which it will be applied. However, given the history [...] ‘APM demanded from the government a monopoly on containers — Is that OK?’ sign in Limon, Costa Rica. Union dockworkers have fought the concession of the Port of Moín, saying the community and country will lose when a multinational takes over the public port. Judges in an administrative court have until Aug. 7 to [...] A proposed Pacific trade region may capture an additional $3 trillion in economic output after Canada and Mexico were invited to take part in talks with nine other nations. A final deal that includes Canada and Mexico would create the U.S.’s largest trade accord, linking its North American Free Trade Agreement partners with eight Pacific-region [...] From the Alliance for Global Justice: The Solidarity Center has some good and helpful programs and some that are at least more or less benign. But these good programs can act to hide a more fundamental purpose to infiltrate and influence the labor movements of other countries and to provide a channel of interference in [...] Officials from APM Terminals – the concessionaire of Callao port’s Muelle Norte terminal – are looking to dispel any doubts over the way the company won its concession in Peru, officials from the Dutch port operator told BNamericas. A group of legislators, led by Peru’s congressional VP, Manuel Merino, called for the cancellation of the [...] ‘Although APM Terminals first offered investments of US$1.9bn, it was awarded the concession for US$750mn,’ a press release from congress quoted committee member Eric Wong as saying. The vice president of Peru’s congress, Manuel Merino, has called for the cancellation of the concession contracts for Callao port’s Muelle Norte terminal and Paita port following [...] The Obama administration hasn’t made a decision about adding Japan, Mexico and Canada to a Pacific-region trade accord being negotiated by nine nations, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said. The Pacific agreement, a trade priority for Obama, includes Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam. Japan, Mexico, [...] Maersk Line has decided to cut its Andean service between Chile & Peru to Northwest Europe In a release, the company said the last Andean vessel from Latin America to North Europe would be the Marianne Schulte, which is set to leave Chilean port San Antonio on May 20 and Peruvian port Callao on May [...] The following opinion piece was published in the Dallas Morning News on behalf of Bruno Ferrari García de Alba, Mexico’s secretary of economy:
Bruno Ferrari de Alba says the United States should take the lead to give Mexico a seat at the Trans-Pacific Partnership table. While governments and the public have been concentrating on challenges [...] |
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