Unfortunately, there is no job mobility in Central America, and these workers are stuck, and there will be no place for them to turn.
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Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.Stephen F. Lynch
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
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You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.
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Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
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