AFSC
- Central America
AFSC has a long history of work in Central America starting in the 1960's. Although AFSC does not currently have staff based in Central America, it continues to support activities around CAFTA in both the United States and Central America.
Over the past few years, AFSC’s Central America Quaker International Affairs Representatives commissioned and helped to produce a wide range of popular education materials, research and impact analysis regarding the impact of globalization, free trade policies, and privatization for the people of Central America. These timely documents were prepared in cooperation with the AFSC Economic Justice Program in the United States, Quaker Peace and Social Witness in England, and the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. Most are available in both English and Spanish.
Central America resources
"El proceso de la privatización del agua en Nicaragua" by Néstor Avendaño
(PDF, 3.3 Mb)
"Nicaragua: the process of water privatization" by Néstor Avendaño
(PDF, 3.6 Mb)
"Potential Impact of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on the Agricultural Sector and Rural Poverty in Nicaragua" by Adolfo Acevedo (PDF, 2.3 Mb)
"Impactos Potenciales del Tratado de Libre Comercio Centroamérica – Estados Unidos En el Sector Agrícola y la Pobreza Rural de Nicaragua" by Adolfo Acevedo (PDF, 1.7 Mb)
"El Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Estados Unidos y Centroamérica: Impactos Económicos y Sociales" by Raúl Moreno (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
"The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Central America: economic and social impact" by Raul Moreno (PDF, 396 Kb)
"Impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Mexico: Lessons for the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations" by Alberto Arroyo Picard (PDF, 4.8 Mb)
"Nicaragua: Alivo HIPC vs Pobreza" by Nestor Avendaño (PDF, 2.5 Mb)
“Nicaragua: Debt Relief/HIPC vs Poverty" by Nestor Avendaño (PDF, 2.5 Mb)
"Seguridad social ¿para quién? Costos y obstáculos de la Seguridad Social en Nicaragua" by Nestor Avendaño
(PDF, 1.5 Mb)
"Social Security, for whom? Costs and obstacles of the Social Security in Nicaragua" by Nestor Avendaño
(PDF, 160 Kb)
"Alivio de la HIPC, ¿ádonde estás?" by Adolfo Acevedo (PDF, 560 Kb)
"Tejiendo Redes Sostenibles" (Weaving Sustainable Networks:Lessons learned through Community Trade) (42 Kb)
Trinidad Sanchez and Mary McCann served as Central America Co-Field Representatives for over a decade, beginning in the early 1990s. Among the multiple processes and movements they accompanied throughout Central America, including women’s, labor, and indigenous rights, internally displaced and refugees, and community health, was the process of organizing and developing the Alternative Community Trade Network (Red COMAL) in Honduras. When COMAL became officially independent from AFSC in 2002, Trinidad Sánchez and Mary McCann continued their work with the Network, Trinidad as its Executive Director and Mary McCann in an informal advisory capacity.
COMAL has become a beacon of hope for the campesino (small farmer) movement in Honduras, and a model looked to for inspiration and learning throughout Latin America. It has been the subject of an indepth study by the Arias Foundation called “Algunas Metodologías de Sostenibilidad, El Caso de la Red COMAL” (Some Methodologies of Sustainability: The Case of the COMAL Network), and constantly receives visitors and delegations from countries all over Latin America interested in learning from what it does. In this article, published in Spanish in the Revista Futuros and translated here by Manuel Castells, Trinidad and Mary reflect on what the process of creation and functioning of COMAL can offer to the search for economic alternatives.
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Hurricane Mitch Response, Five Years Later, November 2003 (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
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