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Examining the News

Identifying the sources

Let’s look again at the two articles we’ve already discussed and see which sources were used in reporting the stories.

The Cane Mutiny article quotes or attributes the following sources of fact and opinion:

  • Robert Buker, executive vice president of U.S. Sugar Corp.
  • advocates of freer trade with America's neighbors
  • Jorge Arrizurieta, head of a group pushing for Miami to host the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas
  • a broad business coalition that favors ratification of DR-CAFTA by the US Congress
  • Trey Dyess, a farm manager for US Sugar Corp.
  • Office of the US Trade Representative
  • Robert Coker, vice president of US Sugar
  • Kent Cooper, co-founder of Political MoneyLine, a political contributions database
  • Phillip Hayes, spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance

The Foes of CAFTA article quotes or attributes the following sources of fact and opinion:

  • Israel Salinas, secretary-general of the Honduran Workers Confederation
  • (Central American) trade unionists, producers and activists opposed to CAFTA
  • Albino Vargas, secretary-general of Costa Rica's National Association of Public Employees
  • government officials in Guatemala
  • Honduran president Ricardo Maduro
  • Marco Barahona, a political analyst with the Association of Social Research and Studies
  • Salvadoran Economy Minister Yolanda Mayora
  • US critics of CAFTA (trade unions, social activists, and environmentalists)

 

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