Issue 374 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

December 2004

The free trade game

Its advocates say free trade is the key to progress and prosperity. But the panacea is not all it's cracked up to be. The North American Free Trade Agreement, which has been in force for more than a decade, has been a recipe for disaster. The promise of economic gain has melted away to be replaced by the reality of raw corporate power. This issue charts the history of free trade and profiles the resistance to its continued expansion across Latin America.

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In this issue

  • Facts and timeline
  • The Government of Western Sahara operates not from its own capital city, L’ayoun, but from a small patch of desert over the border in Algeria.
  • Workers are caught in the cross-hairs as free trade targets the labour movement. A report by *David Bacon*.