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Join our Serious Debate for Real Change!
Readers and Friends: Join our Serious Debate for Real Change! Read the commentaries and join in the forum. We begin with commentaries by: Sarah Anderson (Institute for Policy Studies); Benjamin A. Gilman (former US Congressman); Christian Leathley (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and author); Edgardo Mira (CEICOM, El Salvador); Jeffrey Pryce (Steptoe & Johnson, …
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El Salvador’s Gold Fight
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus By Michael Busch As El Salvador transitions from decades of conservative rule to the administration of leftist President Mauricio Funes, the country faces an international showdown triggered by a restrictive free-trade agreement between the United States and Central America. Canada’s Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the government for its …
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President Correa speaks at U.N. event ‘Peoples Rights not Corporate Profits’
By Melissa Draper Over 500 people packed the cavernous, almost regal ECOSOC Chamber of the United Nations headquarters to hear President Correa of Ecuador speak last Thursday, June 25. It was a side event to the UN Summit on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development. Some of those 500 people …
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Argentine Crisis Arbitration Awards Pile Up, but Investors Still Wait for a Payout
By Luke Eric Peterson In September 2007, executives at CMS Gas Transmission Co. had good reason to believe that the company would soon be getting a sizable check in the mail. The Michigan energy firm had been the first of dozens of foreign multinationals to file damages claims against the government of Argentina following that …
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