Quest for Peace - Peru

"Just Say No!" ad goes to print!

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:02:58 -0400

On Tuesday, July 31 your ad, signed by hundreds of Americans and dozens of organizations, was published in "The Hill" congressional newspaper. Your voices and contributions sent a wake up call to Congress before they left for the August recess. Just as our pressure helped scuttle Fast Track in June, your voices helped head off passage of these broken agreements in the frantic last week before the August break!

The pending trade agreements with Peru, Panama, Colombia and Korea are just four more NAFTA-style, corporate pacts that will do nothing for American workers or our neighbors in these countries. Last November, U.S voters joined people from around the world in calling for a trade model based on economic justice rather than corporate greed. Last week, Congress heard from you again in the newspaper. Now we hope you will contact them as they return to their districts for the August recess.

Press Release from Andean Indigenous Organizations

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:20:14 -0400

Press Release

Five Hundred official delegates from the following groups: ECUARANI (Ecuador), CONACAMI (Peru), CONAMAQ (Bolivia), ONIC (Colombia), and CITEM (Chile are participating in the First Congress of the Andean Coordinating Committee of Indigenous of Indigenous Organizations (Quechua, Kichwa, Aymara, Mapuche)

Peru on the verge of indefinite strike against the FTA

Sun, 2 Jul 2006 12:37:35 -0400

Lima, July 3 (Prensa Latina) - Today Peruvians are threatening an imminent agrarian strike in protest of the country's congressional ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, which they consider detrimental to national interests.

UPDATES ON THE OMAN AND PERU TRADE BILLS

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:13:59 -0400

The US-OMAN FTA was voted on in the Senate on Thursday June 29^th. Unsurprisingly, it passed 60-34 with 6 Senators not voting. This kind of outcome in the Senate was not unexpected- but the distressing votes were from Senators Clinton, Kerry and Obama, who all voted for the agreement.

Resources for the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:48:54 -0400

The US-Peruvian Free Trade Agreement was ratified by Peru's Congress on June 28th. It may come before the US Congress in July. Read our collection of resources relating to the Peru FTA.

Peruvian congress ratifies FTA with the United States

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:59:01 -0400

The Peruvian Congress ratified the Free Trade Agreement in the middle of the night - 79 in favor, 14 against with 6 abstentions. Civil society opposition has called for a march this afternoon in protest.

Ecuador seeks to unite the Andean countries at upcoming CAN meeting

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:44:25 -0400

Associated Press June 3, 2006

QUITO - The Chancellor responsible for the next regional presidential conference, to be held in Quito next week, says that Ecuador will use the meetings to seek to preserve Andean integration..

Analysis: Peruvian - US Free Trade Agreement

Wed, 24 May 2006 14:56:00 -0400

by Tom Loudon, Quest for Peace Staff

After almost two years of negotiations, Peru recently signed and ratified a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. To date, they are the only country in the original four country Andean group to have signed an FTA. The lame duck president, Alejandro Toledo signed the agreement with the US three days after the first round of the Peruvian Presidential elections, and the lame duck Congress ratified it in late June.

Statement from EU-Latin American Unions and Civil Society Working Group

Mon, 22 May 2006 16:23:46 -0400

REGARDING THE IV SUMMIT OF HEADS OF
STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Peru FTA Update

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:55:04 -0400

The USTR has recently indicated that it will wait to move forward on presenting the Peru FTA to Congress until it has been approved by the legislature in Peru. More than two weeks after the Peruvian elections, the second place winner was finally decided.

Outgoing Peruvian President Signs FTA, Leading Presidential Candidates Vow to Oppose

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:36:58 -0400

On Wednesday April 12, President Bush and Alejandro Toledo, the outgoing President of signed a regional “free trade” pact that has been fiercely fought by broad sections of Peruvian society. This seems particularly egregious given the overwhelming support the Peruvian people demonstrated Sunday for the candidates who are opposing the agreement. The final results of this election have not yet been determined, although it is certain that there will be a runoff. From the results to date, what is clear is that the most vocal opponent of this agreement with the US, Ollanta Humala, is clearly candidate with the most votes. The most vocal opponent of the FTA is clearly the candidate with the most votes. What has not yet been decided is who Ollanta will be facing in the second round of elections, which will be held in June. At this point, it appears that the likely opponent will be ex-president Alan Garcia, who has also expressed opposition to the agreement.

Green light for a Referendum on the FTA

Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:38:48 -0400

[Versión español]

From “La República” (Perú) April 8, 2006

FTA Brief Update

Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:43:09 -0400

The US has been negotiating for almost 2 years a trade agreement with 3 Andean countries (Peru, Colombia and Ecuador). The agreement is very similar to the highly questioned CAFTA agreement. They had hoped that all three countries would cave in to all of their demands and agree to the US agenda. But it has been much more complicated. Here are the latest updates from the region.

Peru and the Andean FTA

Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:34:42 -0400

Peru was the first country to close FTA negotiations, on December 7, 2005. The text of that agreement was published within a month [click here for text]

This made a signing of the agreement possible (after the required 90 days) as soon as April 7, 2006. But things have gotten complicated.