In Peru, thousands of farmers took part in a country-wide protest Wednesday against a trade agreement with the United States. Police used tear gas to disperse farmers who blocked several major highways. Peru ratified the deal last week. The US Congress is expected to follow this month. Farmers say the agreement was negotiated in secret and will unfairly expose them to heavily-subsidized US products.

• Antolin Huascar, President of the National Federation of Agriculture Of Peru: “We are in the streets because of the bad negotiation of the free trade agreement. We publicly denounce the government as traitors. It is their fault we are in the streets, and this will continue. They have already betrayed us, they have already sold our natural resources, they have already sold our agriculture.”