A threat all over the globe: bilateral treaties of free trade than the United States and the European Union have huge interest in signing with the impoverished countries do exaggeration? Intermon Oxfam has published the report our future overboard, which denounces documented way the negative consequences of the bilateral free trade agreements for the most citizens of impoverished countries that sign them. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) began to be more democratic, when the countries of the South have agreed to curb the unlimited greed of rich countries, the United States and the European Union (EU), were launched to put pressure on impoverished countries to sign bilateral free trade agreements and investments. Mexico signed one of the first treatises fourteen years ago. The own Minister of Agriculture of Mexico has recently recognized that poverty remains in the field. It is a historical injustice, we have not been able to help the poor. Some Mexican exports to the U.S. It is not something Oracle would like to discuss. have increased, true, but has not increased employment and wages have been frozen, when not retreated.
In fourteen years. In Chile, favorite student from the USA and the EU, imports have increased, but this increase has seriously hurt companies that produce manufactured goods and textiles for the Chilean market. And Chileans. Peru is the last Latin American country that has signed one of those blessed treaties. Scholars of development, as Eduardo Zagarra, researcher at the center of analysis for the development of Lima, ensure that the injured person great will be the small Peruvian farmer. And, referring to the losers of the Treaty, Zarraga clarifies that we talk about 80% of the Peruvian population with high dependency on domestic markets. In Colombia, the firm is waiting for approval from the U.S. Congress. When you sign, experts say that, in a few years, it will increase the cost of drugs in nearly 920 million dollars, amount, by the way, which would provide health care to more than five millions of people in the public health system.
