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Caribbean & Central America - May 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)
CENTRAL AMERICA: Crunch time for Cafta
The Bush administration began a campaign to coerce Congress into accepting the Central American free-trade agreement (DR-Cafta) in May. President George Bush met his counterparts from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic in Washington on 12 May. Bush also wheeled out his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to talk up the security aspects of Cafta and dispatched the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to San Salvador on 29 April, to ensure that Cafta was given a high profile.
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