Colombia: Doing business, killing workers

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia: Doing business, killing workers
By Frederico Fuentes

A November 4 World Bank and International Finance Corporation report, Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, ranked Colombia as the 39th most “business friendly environment” in the world.

Colombia’s “Doing Business” score, which measures how much the country has improved for business, showed Colombia as the best improving economy in the region.

Missing from the report were the more than 500 unionists killed in Colombia over the past eight years, making up 60% of all unionists killed globally. Also missing were the 38,255 people that have “disappeared” in the last three years, many of them union and community leaders.

The report doesn’t mention the 7500 political prisoners in Colombian jails or the more than 4.5 million internally displaced people within its borders — the largest number for any country in the world.

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