[news] Thai Farmers Fear Free Trade Deal With US

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

by Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Jan 6 (IPS) - When United States negotiators fly into Thailand to thrash out a bilateral free trade deal, next week, they will be greeted with jeers rather than this country's famed smile of welcome.

Activists opposed to the free trade agreement (FTA) view the sixth round of talks in the northern city of Chiang Mai from Jan. 9-13 as a defining moment, and in a bid to raise the ante will bring 10,000 people on to the streets to protest against the talks.

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