ibdeditorial.com - 1/23/2009
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INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:20 PM PT The Hemisphere: At her Senate confirmation hearing last week, Hillary Clinton expressed confidence the U.S. alliance with Colombia will always be good, free-trade treaty or not. But growing signs show she's got it wrong. ...
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elcolombiano.com - 1/29/2009
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La solicitud que hizo ayer la coalición uribista
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de marzo sobre si aspira o no a un tercer período ya no tendrá que esperar más: el presidente Uribe no va por su segunda reelección. EL COLOMBIANO está en ...
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Colombia: Free-trade rejection an “insult”
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... During her confirmation hearings, Hillary Clinton asserted that Colombia would remain on friendly terms with the US whether we approved a free-trade agreement with them or not. The Colombians beg to differ , as Investors Business Daily points out in an editorial today. They look around Latin America and see themselves treated as a second-class friend, and given their efforts on our behalf, they’re starting to get mightily unhappy about it: Although Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe sent a courteous message to welcome President Obama, Colombian officials have grown frustrated ...
Choices on Free Trade
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... state's economy -- an issue that is completely stalled and may not have the support of the new President? Will our Democrats fight for free trade? Will our business leaders push them to do so? One of the most lamentable changes in the post-Clinton Presidency Democratic party has been a steady and growing retrenchment of protectionism. Nixing free trade deals while other countries around the world press their own agreements is not prudent. And eventually, those whom we reject will take umbrage (n/t: ...
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