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Colombia trade deal doesn’t pass the smell test
Colombia trade deal doesn’t pass the smell test
By Jess Hunter-Bowman - 06/21/11 11:05 AM ET

Thanks to a multimillion dollar lobbying campaign by the Chamber of Commerce and the Colombian Government, many in Congress erroneously believe that the human rights and labor rights situations in Colombia are improving.

The truth is that just in the past decade, 30,000 innocent civilians have died in the country’s bloody civil war. Another 3.3 million have been violently driven out of their homes and off of their land. The U.S.-backed Colombian state security forces themselves have been implicated in thousands of murders in recent years.

And again in 2010, more trade unionists were killed in Colombia for their union activities than in the rest of the world combined.

Corporations seeking profits in a country at war have unleashed paramilitary death squads to protect their profits. Chiquita, for example, is still paying a Justice Department fine for bankrolling brutal killers for over a decade responsible for at least 14,000 murders.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/167539-colombia-trade-deal-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test

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