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More CAFTA news from your reporter in the DEEP south.

GUATEMALA: Protests against CAFTA ---

>From the Green Left Weekly

On July 29, hundreds of people marched to the US embassy
to protest the neoliberal policies of President Oscar
Berger and the Central America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA), which was passed by US Congress in June.
Protesters called for higher wages, improvements to the
education system and a halt to rises in the cost of
living. A June poll by the Costa Rica State University
Mathematics School indicated that 69.6% of the
population sees CAFTA as more favourable to US interests
than Gutemalans'. Those polled identified poverty,
environmental damage and massive losses for farmers as
potential outcomes of the agreement.