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Costa Rica, the Church Catholic for the "No" to referendum

" were asked to demonstrate to our Church its neutrality with regard to this important contest, the referendum on the Free Trade Agreement between Costa Rica and United States of America. This would mean, however, fail in our commitment, the Church must always be on the side of truth, justice and social welfare .
Monsignor Ignacio Trejos, bishop emeritus of San Isidro de El General, has clear ideas with respect to CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement), and with him 93 other Catholic priests who yesterday took a stand against the treaty: "It is important that to win the referendum No ." In view of the upcoming October 7, made public an eight-page document, entitled "An analysis ethics of the FTA. "
Among the critical points of CAFTA, the priests point out that the treaty "does not respect human life, forcing the country to approve the Budapest Treaty, which makes possible and facilitates the sale of organs and human embryos, seeds and other patented resources needed for life, requiring 91 to approve the agreement UPOV plant derivative that allows privatization and market forms of life. "

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Central America: investment in free fall with

The liberalization of investment is one of the key pieces in the puzzle of every free trade agreement (FTA). And the increase in foreign direct investment, attracting more resources for the development of productive activities, is reported between the positive effects of each TLC (almost saving for small economies of the countries of the South). Stride
with these statements, the figure for Central America. In the middle was caftan (Central America Free Trade Agreement), in the first six months of 2007, foreign investments have fallen in El Salvador (less than $ 180 million), Honduras (less than $ 182 million) and the Dominican Republic (less than 23, $ 4 million). The data is contained in a report released Sept. 13 in San José, capital of Costa Rica, the regional network of monitoring the impact of the Treaty on the Central America Free Trade formats, among others, by Guatemalan Confederación de Cooperativas, Centro de Estudios en Inversion y Comercio de El Salvador, Honduran Coalición de Acción Ciudadana, Movimiento Social Nicaraguan and Comisión Nacional de Enlace de Costa Rica
The same report shows an increase in imports from the United States of America. More than 11.7 percent in El Salvador, more than 26 percent in Honduras, more than 27.5 per cent in Nicaragua, more than 13.5 percent in the Dominican Republic.
Costa Rica will decide on October 7, with a referendum, whether or not to ratify CAFTA.

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CAFTA In Costa Rica a popular referendum to say "No" to the Free Trade Agreement (4)

toppling over the front of the "Yes" in Costa Rica , ahead of the referendum on the kaftan ( Central America Free Trade Agreement ) scheduled on Oct. 7.

Vice-President of the Republic and Minister of Planning, Kevin Casas ( in the photo), resigned (temporarily) from all his duties and is under investigation by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Tse). Casas has invited the President of the Republic, Oscar Arias Sanchez, former Nobel Prize for Peace, "to form a strategic committee to launch the campaign in favor of 'Yes' to the Treaty of free trade." In the long

memorandum, six pages, dated July 29, 2007, Vice-President Arias Sanchez asks to suspend the sittings of Parliament allow their members to go around the community to campaign, "because at this time the victory in the referendum is more important legislative agenda." And, to promote the opposite of "Yes" at the local level, invites him to threaten all the mayors of the ruling party that "if not 'win' the referendum on Oct. 7 in its Canton, will not see a penny from the government over the next three years ".
strategy also includes "the publication of materials for popular education in favor of the Treaty of free trade" and "organize a mass mobilization." What the opposite of "No", perhaps the popular support, has been doing for months.
Casas, then, suggests to aim bogey on foreign interference. In particular, emphasizing the proximity of the front of the "No" to "Fidel, Chavez and Ortega."
The administrative inquiry under way will test the possible complicity of the head of state.