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The European Union has steadfastly opposed agricultural trade liberalization, as proposed by the United States, with arguments in favor of

During the seven long decades of the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) rule, unions formed an important part of the party’s

For the past two decades, and especially since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in 1994,

I. Industria Fronteriza Tijuana’s oldest maquiladora closed last year. It didn’t fall victim to the dreaded Chinese competition, confounding a

In recent years private enterprise in Latin America has shown that it knows the uses of adversity. In response to

Labor law reform has become a high- profile issue in Mexico. Newspaper columnists and television pundits debate it, politicians in

Latin America continues to lead the way in the free-market overhaul of social benefits. This lead was just widened when

Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end condi- tions in his factory so dan- gerous that he feared the

Over the last decade, social movements throughout Latin America have intensified their struggles in spite of— in fact as a

Since the military took power in 1976, there has been a systematic effort to undermine the power of the labor

The largest employer in Puerto Rico today is the Government. Public service workers presently total 285,000 or roughly 26% of

Under the slogan of "Puerto Rico Is Not For Sale," over 500,000 Puerto Rican workers––one half of the island's labor