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FREE TRADE?
- 'Social Security Activists Fight Peru Pact' (Miami Herald, Jane Bussey) "A group of U.S. community organizations have entered the fray over free trade, warning that fuzzy language in a trade accord with Peru could penalize that country if it tries to fix its controversial, privatized Social Security system. ... House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., last week expressed his confidence the trade and investment accord will be approved by the House before the Thanksgiving recess in mid-November."
- 'Please Oppose The Peru FTA, Which Could Lock In Peru's Failed Social Security Privatization' (Letter from 29 USA Advocacy Groups, Public Citizen)
- See also opinions from the Latin America Trade Coalition