Peru may have to choose between US and Andean trade pacts

Source: Miami Herald

Peru may have to choose between US and Andean trade pacts
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LIMA, Peru -- Peru may be forced to choose between a trade pact with the United States and one with its neighbors, a senior official says.

A deal with the United States, approved by the U.S. Congress last year, can't take effect until Peru tightens intellectual property laws.

But Andean Community rules require Peru to get permission from other members to modify such laws -- and the leftist governments of Bolivia and Ecuador have rejected Peru's request to do so, Eduardo Ferreyros, vice-minister of foreign trade, said late Tuesday on Canal N television.

Bolivia and Ecuador voted down Peru's petition during a recent meeting of Andean Community trade officials, decision Ferreyros called political. The other member of the Community, Colombia, is awaiting approval of its own trade deal with its ally Washington.

''I hope they don't put us in a position where we have to choose between the Andean pact and moving forward'' with the U.S. deal, Ferreyros said.


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it is a criminal empire and should be treated as such. Peru and every other nation should have nothing to do with the US - even if Democrats get elected in November, it will mean next to nothing as far as our aggression and criminality goes. The world community should ostracize the US now...

Everyone is sick of us threatening them and our dollars won't be useful much longer(In some places, they won't take them anymore).

if the peoples of South and Central America could, once and for all, get out from under the American thumb! We have murdered, robbed, raped and tortured those good people for too damned long. It is time for a reckoning...a real one...

as all the leftist governments pull together to wield continental economic clout and move on to a South American Common Market, something that should have happened a hundred years ago, but that the U.S. continually thwarted with fascist coups and oppression. Now this new form of oppression--U.S.-dominated "free trade"--along with the old overt kind in Colombia (for instance, chainsawing union leaders and throwing their body parts into mass graves, paid for with $5.5 BILLION in U.S. tax dollars)--have sparked a peaceful, democratic leftist revolution, with goals of social justice, independence from the U.S. self-determination, and regional cooperation. Peruvians made the wrong choice--if, indeed, given Bushite interference in that country, they really had a choice--in corrupt "free trader" Alan Garcia and his ilk. But the real left did well in that election, against the powers of darkness, and will be back.

Then the leftist picture in South America (but for Colombia) will be complete: Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and (next election cycle, Peru), and northward, leftist victories in Nicaragua and Guatemala and a likely one in El Salvador next year, and eventually Mexico (where the left came within 0.05% of winning in the last election). The goals of social justice, independence, self-determination and regional cooperation are moving north. Too bad we're not part of it. That's the legacy the Bush Junta has left us--we are on the wrong side of positive, peaceful, democratic change in our own hemisphere, as well as everywhere else in the world.