And They STILL Want to Expand NAFTA to Colombia
May 18, 2009
This just came in from Witness for Peace, follow-up up to a story we relayed last December. The powerful 60-second video mostly speaks for itself:
Target for Telling the Truth from Witness For Peace on Vimeo.
Despite these sorts of atrocities, and the atrocities later committed to cover up the atrocities, recent reports have some in the U.S. government looking for cosmetic fixes to "resolve" human rights problems in Colombia so they can bring the FTA to a vote.
Colombia says it has made great progress over the past decade reducing all forms of violence in a country once on the verge of collapse from a decades-old civil war...
Obama, who also opposed the [Colombia FTA] last year, recently asked [USTR] Kirk to work with Congress and Colombia on a plan to address the anti-labor violence.
"Ours teams will be meeting shortly to discuss and crystallize those issues that need to be resolved," Kirk said.
How can you negotiate with a government that is at least complicit in violence against civilians on the one hand, and then tries to take credit for reductions in violence on the other?!?! You can't call it a good faith negotiation, that's for sure.
The Colombia FTA will only give more incentives for violence by tilting the scales even more in favor of the powerful interests that already exploit and displace working Colombians and use the climate of fear, violence and lawlessness to do so. We could expect to see MORE of the sort of tragedy that befell Martha.
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