Free Trade and South America

[bcbm]

Does anybody know where to find a nice convenient list of all the things "free trade" has messed up in South and Central America?

[Guerrilla22]

There isn't currently any free trade agreement involving South America, there will be one involving North/Central America + Dominican Republic ratified next year probaly. There also is NAFTA of course, which has caused numerous problems from environmental to poor working conditions, to loss of blue collar jobs in the US.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

Joseph Stlglitz released a book about the effects of globalization and so-called "free" trade on the poorer countries.

Also, a guy called David Ricardo is a good economist on the topic.

[WUOrevolt]

On the front page of the Sturday November 5th 2005, edition of the New York Times there is an article covering the riots in Argentina againts F.T.A.A., which had some stuff on why the latin americans oppose F.T.A.A.




http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...DA80994DD404482 (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B16FF3F5A0C768CDDA80994DD4044 82)

[WUOrevolt]

The EZLN has some good criticisms of Free trade and neo liberalism in their comminiques.

www.ezln.org

[WUOrevolt]

Oh, and Noam Chomsky wrote a book called Profit over People criticizing neo liberalism and free trade.