Another day, another march

Well, CAFTA (the free trade agreement between the US and Central America) was approved last week by the Guatemalan Congress... despite various days of protests, which sometimes exploded in violence.

I spent four days on the streets, sliding back and forth between protestors and riot police... dodging bottles, rocks, cork bullets, and tear gas. I now have a lifetime's supply of photographs of baton-wielding security forces and spray-painted walls.

Yesterday I began editing some of the photographs to upload to the page, hopefully they'll be available later today.

Unfortunately, there's no rest for the weary... this morning a national strike has been declared to protest the Congress' approval of CAFTA (ie: selling out the country to the interests of transnational corporations and the U.S. government.)

At 8am a (hopefully) massive march will depart from the Trebol and head into the center of the city, where the streets are already lined with riot police and, according to the press, some1,000 soldiers are waiting in their barracks to assist the security forces during today's protest.

Here at the office we're working double-time to finish the Daily Report as soon as possible. The moment it is signed, sealed, and delivered (aka: emailed and uploaded to our homepage) we'll all be heading out to join the march.

Sheesh, I'm beginning to long for the days when I complained about being stuck indoors all day with the computer!

If you want to watch an extremely clever and informative cartoon about CAFTA, visit : Link: http://www.quixote.org/calf/