The U.S. Government will make changes in the free trade agreement with Colombia before asking Congress to ratify it, the Government announced in its annual Trade Policy Agenda.
The proposed changes consist of "benchmarks for progress". The document doesn't specify what constitutes as progress.
The Obama administration promises to "promptly, but responsibly address the issues" surrounding the free trade agreement with Colombia.
Obama and the members of his Democratic Party in U.S. Congress have refused to sign the deal made by former President George W. Bush and his Colombian counterpart Álvaro Uribe, because of human rights violations in Colombia.
Colombia's Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos and Foreign Minister Jaime Bermúdez were in Washington last week to lobby the ratification of the trade pact and continuation of Plan Colombia, a multi-billion plan to jointly fight drug trafficking and leftist insurgency in Colombia. Following that visit, President Uribe expressed he was confident relations with the Obama administration would improve.
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... This is just another example of how the US government has gone from, 0-90, war monger to BO, bravado oligarchy. How very simple balance is created among the poor. They have barely enough to pay the bills while Dr's are now losing their houses. So we tax the rich without taking appropriate measures to balance the budget of the rich. Simple things like property tax assessments that make some sort of uniform sense. Something that doesn't fall into the realm of welfare and continue robbing the poor. If you want to talk the talk then talk but best learn to walk first, huh? We have the single most disfunctional tax system in the world second only to the Child Protection Agency, someone really needs to sue them too. |
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... We now suffer form the governmentality that needs a new sewer but fixes the golden toilet seat. Anyone who knows me now knows what it sounds like around here if the sewers don't work. It occurred to me while sifting thru human toxins that this is a world issue, but for American Muslims it is a disease of the heart. Hamdulillah. We now are beginning to understand that a Caliphate isn't practical for the money or how Zakat is spent but more about the diseases of the heart of man. I win Sultan, you owe me the pink slip. |
