Hail Colombia

President Obama, who withheld his support for a free-trade agreement with Colombia when he was a senator, recently sounded a more positive note on the issue. At a joint news conference this week with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Obama commended him for the progress his country has made in addressing human rights violations.

In particular, he remarked on the more hospitable environment in Colombia today for labor organizers...

[I.e., unions. Our treatment ('our' meaning the Democrat controlled Congress) continues to be shameful - we've no better ally in the region and Uribe has repeatedly proven he's a good many, it's past time we stop our unions' blackmail of his embattled country (reminder: we've much to lose in the region should he fall)...]

FLASHBACKs >

• Cuba, FARC may be training guerrillas at Venezuelan camp
• FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends
• Colombian police: FARC responsible for most U.S. cocaine
• Mullen Says Colombia Making Progress Against Narcoterrorists

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"PASS THE COLUMBIA FREE TRADE ACT NOW"


Whitehouse: mailto:president@whitehouse.gov
House-Pelosi: http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
YOUR Congressman: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

or: Speed Message them with your personal distribution list...

and as always, pass it on...