CAFTA-DR is slow to benefit Guatemala

Last May, Guatemala’s textiles and apparel industry celebrated the implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) as a move that would enable one of the country’s largest trades to emerge from its doldrums and bring progress to its impoverished economy. But nearly 12 months on the clock, CAFTA-DR is failing to live to its much ballyhooed promises, as Ivan Castano reports.