Why would he, as amigo de Bush and his foreign policy that benefit the least at the expense of the most? Colombian President Alvaro Uribe responded quite harshly to Barack Obama’s criticism of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Obama said:

“I will oppose the Colombia Free Trade Agreement if President Bush insists on sending it to Congress because the violence against unions in Colombia would make a mockery of the very labor protections that we have insisted be included in these kinds of agreements,” Obama said Wednesday at a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in Philadelphia.

Uribe said:”

outrage” (”atropello”) to “make these statements about Colombia without having all the facts.”

John McCain and President Bush support the trade agreement.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama oppose it.

Via / The Latin Americanist and Candidato USA