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The leftist parties of Central America and Mexico met in Tegucigalpa June 2-5 and declared they would continue to fight against free-trade agreements (FTAs) with developed countries because the pacts worsen the problems of poverty, unemployment, marginalization, violence, and emigration. Present at the meeting were representatives of the Partido del Trabajo (PT, Mexico), Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN, El Salvador), Unificacion Democracia (UD, Honduras), Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional de Guatemala (URNG), and Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FMLN, Nicaragua). The meetings went almost completely unnoticed in the media of any of the countries because the host UD, according to Deputy Doris Gutierrez, "apparently forgot" to announce it.
Nevertheless, out of the glare, or even the flicker, of publicity, the parties came together on a Joint Declaration of...
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