Guatemala’s legislature has repealed a law approved in June, ‘for the protection of new plant varieties’ (Ley para la Protección de Obtenciones de Vegetales). A condition of the Central America-Dominican Republic-US Free Trade Agreement (Cafta-DR), which took effect in Guatemala in 2006, the law had been highly contentious in Guatemala, arousing fears that it would privatise and promote the use of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in the country. Its repeal is a challenge to the US at a time when bilateral cooperation is already under scrutiny over the issue of migration [WR-14-32].End of preview - This article contains approximately 726 words.
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