The Pending US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: False Claims Versus Hard Realities http://upsidedownworld.org/main/colombia-archives-61/3205-the-pending-us-colombia-free-trade-agreement-false-claims-versus-hard-realities

Neoliberal free trade policies have been a big part of the reason that economic crises are taking place all over the world and have led to ever widening gaps between the rich and the poor. Colombia has the second largest gap between the rich and the poor in South America and the eighth largest worldwide, according to the World Bank's World Development Institute. The FTA will make matters worse.