Is the US, President Bush trying to get Paraquayan water?

May 25, 5889 by BrunoGiordano | Posted in Other - Politics & Government

While the Mercosur meetings were going on in Argentina, more than 2,000 people from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, representing 40 labor union and human rights groups, attended the Second Social Forum of the Triple Border in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay,


Sounds very fishy alright.

gimmebourbon | May 25, 9109

Venezuela to become full member of MERCOSUR

President Cristina Fernandez announced Friday Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay's decision to make Venezuela an official member of the Southern ...

TPP: What you need to know about this 'super-sized' trade deal

25.05.13

The TPP is a super-sized trade deal-expanding on so called "next generation" trade and investment deals that NAFTA countries have pursued in the wake of the stalemate at the World Trade Organization. This pluri-lateral agreement poses serious new threats to North American communities -- threats that a tri-national movement of trade justice activists is preparing to fight in the lead-up to a possible July TPP negotiating round in Canada. Canada and Mexico join the nine other TPP countries for the second time since the U. S. government invited its NAFTA partners to join late last year. Since NAFTA was signed almost 20 years ago, all three North American countries have seen good jobs vanish, worsening income inequality, public services weakened through underfunding or offloaded to the private sector, increased food insecurity (in...

Source: rabble.ca

Ipsgroup to distribute Aconite products in Mercosur region

Our complementary solutions and expertise places us in an ideal position to meet the demands of regional card issuers who are faced with the challenges of EMV migration or who are looking to exploit new revenue opportunities from prepaid and... Ipsgroup chose Aconite's Smart PrePaid solution, as it met the needs of their customers by offering a fast, low risk and low cost route into growing prepaid contactless markets such as petrol and retail.

Source: Ipsgroup to distribute Aconite products in Mercosur region

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