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Colombia Free Trade Politics


 

A. Colombia won’t pass—only perception of capital means Bush will force it on the agenda.

Inside U.S. Trade 2-1-2008. [House, Senate Leadership Cool To FTAs After State Of The Union, p. lexis]

C. Political capital is key to Colombia FTA.

National Journal 8-11-2007. [Uphill Climb on Trade Deals, p. factiva]

Passsage of the FTA causes Colombian civil war.  

José María Rodríguez González, foreign policy analyst, 3-29-2007. [Colombia FTA: Monkey Business for U.S., p. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00521.htm] 

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) appears to offer a fair deal…… against its interests in the whole of Latin America. 

Colombia FTA kills US human rights credibility.  

Representative Phil Hare, D-Ill. (17th CD), 1-17-2008. [US Fed News, BUSH TRADE AGENDA WOULD COMPOUND ECONOMIC PAIN OF WORKING AMERICANS, p. lexis] 

"Despite a slight decrease……. end human rights abuses worldwide……. 


 

Human rights credibility is the only way to the war on terror.  

Tom Malinowski, Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, 7-7-2004. [Human Rights News, “Promoting Human Rights and Democracy,” p. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/07/07/usint9009_txt.htm] 

Having an effective and principled….. When America is seen to be compromising the values it has long preached, its credibility and influence are diminished.   



Victory or extinction.  

Yonah Alexander, Ph.D., professor and director of Inter-University for Terrorism Studies in Israel and the US, 8-28-2003. [Washington Times, Terrorism myths and realities, p. lexis] 

Human rights credibility is key to democracy promotion.  

Tom Malinowski, Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch, 3-10-2004. [FDCH Congressional Testimony, State Department Human Rights Report, p. lexis] 

Democratization is key to global peace and stability.  

Joshua Muravchik, Ph.D., Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Adjunct Prof., Institute of World Politics, Member, State Dept.’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, 7-14-2001. [Paper Presented at the NPEC/IGCC Summer Faculty Seminar, “Democracy and Nuclear Peace, p. http://www.npec-web.org/Syllabus/Muravchik.pdf]

Democracy solves extinction.  

Larry Diamond, Ph.D., Professor of Poli. Sci. and Sociology, Stanford U., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Co-Editor Journal of Democracy, Dec. 1995. [A Report to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, “Promoting Democracy in the 1990s: Actors and Instruments, Issues and Imperatives,” p. http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/fr.htm] 

Civil war in Colombia destroys US hegemony.  

R. Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Latin America consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Feb. 2004. [Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE 23(1), The Impact of Instability in Latin America, p. 187-93] 
 

Colombia’s key to Latin America stability.  

Kevin J. Fandl, J.D., Ph.D., Candidate, George Mason U., Fulbright Fellow (Colombia), 2007. [10 Yale H.R. & Dev. L.J. 64, Bilateral Agreements and Fair Trade Practices: A Policy Analysis of the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (2006), p. lexis] 

Regional instability kills to the US economy.  

Boris Saavedra, professor, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies , National Defense University, April 2003. [NDU Working Paper, Confronting Terrorism in Latin America, p.

http://www.ndu.edu/chds/journal/PDF/2003-0403/Saavedra-article.pdf] 

Latin American instability causes terrorism.  

R. Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Latin America consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Feb. 2004. [Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE 23(1), The Impact of Instability in Latin America, p. 187-93] 

Civil war in Colombia threatens Brazilian security and nationalism.  

Richard L. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the North-South Center, Oppenheimer Chair of Modern Warfighting Strategy at the U.S. Marine Corps University, Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Oct. 2002. [Strategic Studies Institute, Colombia’s Conflicts: The Spillover Effects of a Wider War]  

That causes nuclearization targeted at the US.  

Donald E. Schulz, Ph.D., Chair of Political Science at Cleveland State U., fmr. Research Professor of National Security at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army College, March 2k. [Strategic Studies Institute, The United States and Latin America: Shaping an Elusive Future, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=31] 

Colombia FTA would destroy the Amazon.  

Tom Loudon, Coordinator, ART, March 2007. [Alliance for Responsible Trade, The “Contaminated” Environmental Chapter of the Free Trade Agreement,  

The Amazon is key to planetary survival. 

Greenwatch 9-29-2006. [Bush Free Trade Plan Puts Amazon up for Grabs, p.

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000319.php]


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