Bush tries blackmail: Will Obama cave on condition that economic stimulus package include terrible Colombia Free Trade Agreement?
White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel listens during a news conference by President-elect Obama in Chicago, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) By Aaron Blake
The Hill
November 9, 2008
Newly designated White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that the incoming Obama administration opposes attaching the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to an economic stimulus package in order to get the approval of the Bush Administration...
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posted by Justin Delacour | 10:18 PM
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It is certainly no accident that Colombia, the nation with the closest ties to the United States in South America, is classified as a tier one nation in terms of human traffic. I fear that free trade with Colombia will only open more avenues for the traffic of Colombians out of the nation (the State Department estimates that 50,000 area already in the "system").
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