What Happens After CAFTA?
Here are just a few of the sad events that might become reality if the Central American Free Trade Agreement is passed! 1. It will cost American sugar beet and cane growers over four billion dollars in lost revenues – at the expense of child labor in Central America. 2. CAFTA will violate human rights in all of Central America. 3. It will allow corporations to sue governments for loss of ‘future’ investments. Investment which may or may not be real. 4. Farmers will be prevented from saving and re-planting their seeds. They will be forced to buy seed every year from companies claiming “intellectual rights” to their GE (genetically engineered) seed. 5. Immediately 10 – 15 US textile mills will close, costing thousands of US jobs in that industry alone. 6. All local control over how goods can be produced will be given over to the corporations. 7. Laws will be weakened which protect worker’s rights and the environment and natural resources. 8. Drive up the cost of medicine by extending the
