Republican demands priority for Colombia trade pact http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14918-republican-demands-priority-for-colombia-trade-deal.html

A U.S. Republican representative threatens to block the South Korea trade agreement if ratification of the Colombia agreement is not part of the deal, the House of Representatives said in a Tuesday press release.The press release comes on the heels of editorials published Monday in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in support of ratification of the agreement.

[also see> 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/

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is calling for an all-out nationwide mobilization to let members of Congress know that working Americans oppose this deal because it is wrong for workers in both countries. Meanwhile, Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a union member—39 trade unionists were murdered in 2007, and another 11 to date in 2008. Of the more than 2,500 murders of trade unionists since 1986, only about 70 cases—around 3 percent—have resulted in convictions.