VivirLatino

So, if you’re like me and you tend to decide things without really having a full grasp of a situation, but can sense on a gut level why something is wrong–I found this article in the NYT’s about the Colombian Trade Agreement, Obama and Bush, and why there is so much tension around the whole thing. It answered a lot of my questions and helped me to further see and understand Erwin and LC’s separate thoughts–although I think that the article is incredibly lacking in explaining the Agreement from Colombia’s perspective–whether the perspective be from a unionist point of view or a ‘free trade’ point of view.

An excerpt:

Mr. Bush has drawn his line at the automakers’ doors, having already been forced to shelve the free-market principles of his Republican Party to bail out the financial industry over the past two months. But Republicans say he would acquiesce in aid to automakers in return for Congress’s ratification of the Colombia pact and pending trade agreements with Panama and South Korea.

I still am inclined to believe that there’s nothing good about free trade, especially when it can be used to justify the silencing of violence against workers–but I am open to continuing to think about it.