TLC TO KICK
Alejandro Toledo's attempt to sign the Free Trade Agreement "yes or yes" just a couple of days before the election, is a complete nonsense. Clearly, if the public is being consulted democratically expressed voice of the people at the polls should be considered when making a decision as important as this.
On the other hand, even if signed by Toledo and Bush, NAFTA still needs to be approved by the U.S. Congress before entering into force. Toledo could not even get the promise that the FTA will be considered shortly in the Capitol being most likely have to wait a long time, as anticipated this week none other than the vice president of Colombia.
The "TLC yes or yes" in Toledo without basic democratic considerations, passes over the millions of Peruvians who will be negatively affected by NAFTA, and for which there is still basic programs or budgets to compensate. The government has said that millions of Peruvians affected by rising drug prices and hundreds of thousands of farmers lost their market and their income will fall, they will be compensated. But it has not yet submitted a master plan, implementation arrangements and budgets minimum Whether that is true. For its part, the candidates also are in favor of NAFTA have submitted a proposal in this regard, let alone of course those who say that yet "they are thinking (" how long?).
Toledo wants the government to approve the FTA bypassing democracy and regardless of the impoverishment of millions of Peruvians. To add insult to injury, the government secretly negotiating an FTA with Chile to deliver even more benefits and goodies to our southern neighbor. And TLC, NO. The Peruvian people must be heard and considered, and a referendum is the way to go.
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