Colombian free trade deal ignores violence, faces Colombian resistance  http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19364

Congress is poised to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia in spite of vehement opposition both here in the US and in Colombia.

Colombia: workers, students protest FTA, privatization http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19358

In Colombia’s largest demonstration since President Juan Manuel Santos took office last August, tens of thousands of unionists, students and teachers demonstrated throughout the country on April 7 to protest a free trade agreement with the US and proposed changes in the education system that they say will lead to privatization.