Trade, Violence and Migration: The Broken Promises to Honduran Workers [View all]

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Report by the AFLCIO on conditions in Honduras:

Trade, Violence and Migration:
The Broken Promises to Honduran Workers

“What we witnessed was the intersection
of our corporate-dominated trade policies
with our broken immigration system
contributing
to a state that fails workers and
their families and forces them to live in fear....
The results are dangerous and serve as a
warning of what we cannot allow to continue.”
—Tefere Gebre
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President

Full report:
http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/147761/3770791/file/Honduras.PDF

Summarized here by the National Catholic Reporter:

Report: US trade and migration policies feed crisis in Honduras


By: Vinnie Rotondaro | Jan. 28, 2015

Washington

Failed trade and migration policies of the United States have exacerbated political problems in Honduras, leading to greater poverty and violence, says a recent report by the AFL-CIO.

The report identifies "two essential elements to understanding the current crisis" in Honduras, which is referred to in many media accounts as "the murder capital of the world" because of the extent of violence in society.

The two elements the report cites are:

"Recent political and economic developments" in the country, including a 2009 military coup d'état, which unseated a left-leaning government and unsettled a period of relative peace in Honduran society;
The "unfulfilled promise" of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

"In both these developments, U.S. policies play a major role," says the report from the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States....


Full article:
http://ncronline.org/news/global/report-us-trade-and-migration-policies-feed-crisis-honduras