Bullets and Bananas: The Violence of Free Trade in Guatemala

Less than 24 hours after President Bush met with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom at the White House on Monday, a worker from a union that filed a trade complaint with Washington against the Guatemalan government was murdered. Carlos Enrique Cruz Hernández, a banana worker, was assassinated while working at a farm owned by a subsidiary … Continue reading Bullets and Bananas: The Violence of Free Trade in Guatemala