Firsthand look at FTA’s http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19297

A group of farmers and ranchers from the nation’s largest farm organization will be heading to South and Central America. Their primary goal, to build relationships and show support for pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama. American Farm Bureau Trade Specialist Chris Garza.GARZA: These agreements are important to U.S. agriculture. We are currently losing market share in Colombia and could potentially start to lose market share in Panama as well. Passage of these trade agreements will prevent that and hopefully reverse what we have already lost. In terms of gains for U.S. agriculture, these two agreements represent almost a billion dollars worth of additional agricultural exports. That is in addition to what we already export into these markets.

[COURSE THEY ARE PROMOTING IT,BECAUSE THEY ARE HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED BY US GOVERNMENT,MEANWHILE FARMERS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA VEHEMEANTLY OPPOSE IT BECAUSE THE RATIFICATION,WILL BE DISASTRUOUS FOR THEIR LIVELIHOODS,BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT SUBSIDIZED,AND YOU WILL FLOOD THEIR MARKETS WITH CHEAPER GOODS,THEREFORE,LEAVING THEM POORER,F$#K YOU DONT GO ANYWHERE MF..STAY HOME...

SEE>Debunked FTA Export Claims Continue to Pop Up http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2011/03/debunked-fta-export-claims-continue-to-pop-up.html  More free trade agreements? When NAFTA failed? http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19244  Dairy farmers march in Bogota against trade deal http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19201 Representatives of dairy businesses from across Colombia meet in Bogota to protest against the pending free trade agreement with the US, fearing it will ruin nearly 480,000 producers who have less than 10 cows, and thereby damaging food security for the country, especially in rural areas  Act Now to Stop Colombia Free Trade Deal http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/03/24/act-now-to-stop-colombia-free-trade-deal/