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Article Excerpt
The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), just last year the focal point of the region's economic relationship with the US, is floundering nearly a year after the countries rushed to meet a December 2003 deadline for delivery of a finished document (see NotiCen, 2002-11-14). Among the reasons the agreement is beached is that, in the US, the Congress has put it off as other issues occupied legislative attention.
Now, with presidential elections just days away in the US, word has reached the region from advisor to the John Kerry campaign in Latin America Peter Romero that, if elected, Kerry would seek to review the agreement, a process that would take at least six months. After the review, Kerry might seek to renegotiate.
From his statements concerning other trade negotiations, it has been assumed that Kerry would want...
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