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Central American leaders confident Trump won’t revoke CAFTA

Central American government and business leaders said it would make no sense for Trump and the U.S. to axe the Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA.

Remember when US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited Costa Rica?

Vermont senator and surging Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is no stranger to Costa Rica, having come here in 2007 to lend his voice to a campaign against the Central American-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA-DR.

Costa Rica counts for 40 percent of CAFTA exports to the US

Five years after the passage of the controversial free trade agreement, a World Bank report says that Costa Rica benefits more from CAFTA than any of its Central American neighbors.
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