In a country of less than 5 million citizens, 150,000 turned out to protest against CAFTA. The trade pact, which passed the US Congress by a single vote after midnight in July 2005, has still not been approved by the second largest participant in the scheme.
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More than 150,000 Costa Rican citizens flooded downtown San Jose, Costa Rica on Sunday to protest the much delayed CAFTA trade pact. Costa Rica is the second largest economic party to the deal. Along with the economic implications, Costa Ricans are concerned about the impact to their national sovereignty created by the trade deal.
Costa Rica's current president and UN/Rockefeller pretty boy Oscar Arias is trying to push the hotly contested deal through on a national referendum vote. The outcome remains in doubt as well-informed Costa Ricans realize their ability to govern themselves without outside interference is at stake.
Ignacio Trejos, emeritus bishop of San Isidro de El General in Costa Rica summed up the mood for many of the protestors, "God is with the people and the people must follow God. We are a small country but we have the moral and spiritual force to resist outside interference."
More than 150,000 Costa Rican citizens flooded downtown San Jose, Costa Rica on Sunday to protest the much delayed CAFTA trade pact. Costa Rica is the second largest economic party to the deal. Along with the economic implications, Costa Ricans are concerned about the impact to their national sovereignty created by the trade deal.
Costa Rica's current president and globalist pretty boy Oscar Arias is trying to push the hotly contested deal through on a national referendum vote. The outcome remains in doubt as well-informed Costa Ricans realize their ability to govern themselves without outside interference is at stake.
Ignacio Trejos, emeritus bishop of San Isidro de El General in Costa Rica summed up the mood for many of the protestors,
"God is with the people and the people must follow God. We are a small country but we have the moral and spiritual force to resist outside interference."
Of course America's premier corporate newsletter and shill central for all US trade deals, the Wall Street Journal wants you to know that America's only socialist senator, Bernie Sanders has been providing Costa Rica with the wrong kind of outside interference.
Costa Rica's front and center resistance to CAFTA comes at a bad time for trade pact wheeler-dealers in the US who are currently putting the push on in Congress to approve new trade contracts with Peru and Panama.
Putting things in perspective, Sunday's 150,000 Costa Ricans protesting against CAFTA is the equivalent of 3 million US citizens taking to the streets to defend our country's sovereignty and well-being.
Please take a moment to at least call or write your Congressman today on stopping the Peru and Panama trade deals. For an extra kick, ask them to sign on to HCR 22 - Representative Virgil Goode's resolution calling for the repeal of NAFTA.
