US NEOCOLONIALISM-NEOLIBERALISM WATCH- EXPOSED AGAIN-FTA advances as Colombia fulfills US requirements http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/16031-fta-advances-as-colombia-fulfills-us-requirements.html

U.S. government officials announced that they are ready to discuss technicalities of the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, as the country has implemented appropriate labor rights protection measures, newspaper Semana reported Wednesday.U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk informed the finance committee that his team is ready to work on the two documents needed for ratification of the FTA by Congress, which has been pending since 2006. He added that Colombia has satisfactorily complied with the April 22 deadline for implementing labor rights measures.

[THIS IS BS,THE US GOV IS ATTEMPTING TO IMPOSE THRU ITS OLYGHARIC CLIENT REGIEM A TRADE AGREEMENT WICH WILL DETSROY COLOMBIAS ECONOMY AND BENEFIT US CORPORATIONS AND SANTOS CRONIES AT EXPENSE OF COLOMBIANS THEMSELVES,THERE HAVE BEEN MILLIONS PROTESTING IN COLOMBIA AGAINST IT,THIS INCLUDED TRADE UNIONS,PEASENT MVEMENTS ,HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS,AND VARIOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AS WELL...US TRADE UNIONS ALSO STAND AGAINST IT,SEE...

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The Case Against the Colombian Free Trade Pact http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-02/news/bs-ed-colombia-free-trade-20110502_1_human-rights-northern-cauca-free-trade  Child labor in Colombia rises by 35% http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15967-child-labor-in-colombia-rises-by-35.html COLOMBIANS AGAIN MARCH AGAINST US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT-Centrales obreras preparán gran movilización contra el TLC para el Primero de Mayo http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19419  

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COLOMBIA-Entrevista con César Plazas, dirigente de la CUT Cerca de 3000 personas marcharon este 1 de mayo en la ciudad de Bucaramanga http://prensarural.org/spip/spip.php?article5773 (TRADE UNIONS,CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS,PEASENT MOVEMENTS,WORKERS PARTIES,ACTIVISTS MARCH TO DENOUNCE IMPEDING US-COLOMBIA FTA,NEOLIBERALISM,AND VIOLENCE BY STATE)  /  KPFK RADIO: Colombian free trade deal ignores violence, faces Colombian resistance http://ia600606.us.archive.org/12/items/DailyDigest-041211/2011_04_12_bowman.mp3