North American Free Trade Agreement


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Colombia FTA: Rewarding Promises Instead of Performance

By Leo Gerard
April 12, 2011

Tragically, the government of Colombia exhibits the behavior of an addict. And, just as regrettably, the United States is co-dependent, so addicted to so called free trade that it plans to award Colombia an agreement based solely on promises.

Addicts always promise. They’ll stop, they pledge. more »

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McCain's Flea-Market Economy

By Tula Connell
July 2, 2008

George W. Bush's solution to our nation's economic mess—that his failed policies helped create—is to applaud people who must work three jobs to make ends meet. more »

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McCain Pledges Allegiance to NAFTA

By Robert Borosage
July 1, 2008

Arizona Sen. John McCain continues his rousing campaign tour of the swing states of NAFTA this week. He will celebrate July 3 in Mexico City after a jaunt through Colombia to pledge support for the pending free trade accord with that center of cocaine trade. He surely will increase his margin over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among business elites in Mexico and Canada. more »

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Forty-eight percent of the people responding to an April 2008 Pew Research Center poll said that free trade agreements are a bad thing for the country, compared with 35 percent who call them a good thing. In that same poll, 61 percent of respondents said that free trade causes job losses, 56 percent said it lowers wages and 50 percent said it slows the economy.

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"Obama's Image Slips ... Public Support for Free Trade Declines," Section 4. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. May 1, 2008.

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Colombia Trade Deal Is Derailed. Let's Keep It Off the Tracks

By Tula Connell
April 15, 2008

In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. more »

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