Critics Call Trade Pact Lose-Lose Deal for Colombian Labor
IPS @ Common Dreams - Two days ago, on Jun. 7, Ana Fabricia Cordoba was killed in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia. A community leader with the women's organization Ruta de Pacifica de Mujeres working with displaced workers, Cordoba had been receiving death threats, which she reported to the police and national government.
Her pleas were met with silence and finally with bullets.
Cordoba's untimely death coincides with renewed efforts by free-trade advocates in Washington to pressure the United States Congress to pass the long-debated U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a deal brokered in 2006 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush that is now inching closer to ratification by U.S. President Barack Obama and Colombia's recently elected Juan Manual Santos. Read more.
Her pleas were met with silence and finally with bullets.
Cordoba's untimely death coincides with renewed efforts by free-trade advocates in Washington to pressure the United States Congress to pass the long-debated U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a deal brokered in 2006 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush that is now inching closer to ratification by U.S. President Barack Obama and Colombia's recently elected Juan Manual Santos. Read more.
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