Costa Rica CAFTA Fight Goes National

San Jose
Dec 15

A National Support Front (FNA) has been created in Costa Rica to coordinate the thousands of Costa Ricans opposed to CAFTA plus Dominican Republic, the free trade treaty of the United States.

FNA organizers said Friday that important personages from political, academic and social sectors met yesterday to expand and cohere the struggle, not against free trade, but for patriotism and sovereignty they said.

Eugenio Trejos and Henry Mora, activists in the struggle against CAFTA, urged all people in Costa Rica to join the struggle as the nation is going through a very tough moment in its history.

They said CAFTA is a threat to the progress achieved in the second half of the 20th Century and the solidarity that has been part of the Costa Rican model for economic and social development.

The treaty negotiated with the United States is the culmination of a model of exclusion model that generates social inequality, one that has been progressively encroaching on Latin American countries for the last 20 years.