Giordano: Colombia’s Invasion of the United States |

April 8, 2008
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Dear Colleague,

Al Giordano reports today that the Colombian government is spending part of the more than $5 billion dollars it has received from the US as part of Plan Colombia to lobby the US Congress to approve a US-Colombia “free trade” pact:

“The stunning events of recent days, in which the chief strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mark J. Penn, was publicly demoted (but really, not: he’s still there) has torn a curtain. Behind it are the highest paid mercenary soldiers of the Colombian civil war: lobbyists, public relations firms and political consultants, doing the bidding of a foreign power in Washington…

“In the press release announcing Penn’s demotion, the Clinton campaign noted that his tasks would be taken over by pollster Geoff Garin and campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson. But – lo’ and behold – Wolfson is also part of Colombia’s mercenary army in the United States. The beltway newspaper Politico reported yesterday that the Washington firm of which Wolfson is part-owner is also on the Colombian government payroll…”

Giordano previews the intense battle underway over the trade bill in Washington, as unions and human rights organizations go up against the high paid lobbyists for the Colombian State and US-based multinational corporations (Walmart and Citigroup, among them) that – just as with the 1993 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico – pursue a treaty that would greatly harm workers in both countries, human rights, and the environment.

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