Surveys show that the FTA is increasingly unpopular
· Effort informational social organizations opens the eyes of the population.
· Costa Ricans are aware of the implications of this poorly negotiated NAFTA.
Support for Free Trade subsides with the passage of days. Polls show that the more informed citizenry is the jump doubts about the country that will impact the implementation of the agreement. "That's what I fear, is why the promoters of this deal have avoided at all costs an extensive discussion of this treaty negotiated behind the backs of the people" said the head of Fraction, Elizabeth Fonseca.
In 10 months another 20 percent of the population joined the vast majority of Costa Ricans who have doubts about the purported benefits stakeholders claim that this project is approved. Opinion polls also indicate that more than 110 thousand people would be willing to demonstrate in the streets against the FTA.
Pro TLC The former businessman and now Minister of Foreign Trade Marco Vinicio Ruiz, attributed the plummeting support for the FTA to have left out the advertising campaigns, "This means that the trade agreement requires a tricks and advertising to persuade Costa Rica, was not enough to confuse people with the delusion that advertising in the press, radio and television meant that NAFTA Working for Costa Ricans " Congressman Alberto Salom said.
The legislature believes that the information must be known and that the public has a right to know the consequences of poorly negotiated NAFTA. Furthermore, it has also shown that there are conflicts and in other Central American countries to certification, requirements and asymmetries of the United States. It has also been known as shallow as the conflicts in cases of Guatemala (in the case of chicken) and El Salvador (conflicts in textile). "Those who want to expedite the processing of the TLC hit so afraid of an informed citizenry, not for nothing the country has invested in public education and free. It is regrettable and deceived the people in a neighboring country with a media campaign which claimed that the FTA export guarantee pupusas. "Salom Echeverría said.
"The longer you for discussion, most people know and understand that this deal undermines the solidarity model paves the way to Costa Rica and exclusionary neoliberal has only benefited a small group in the last 25 years and that is again in power, "concluded the deputy Fonseca.
"A people ignorant is blind instrument of its own destruction." Simon Bolivar
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