Media Alternative, independent of the U.S. are publishing these days interesting articles reflecting diametrically opposed views to those who Big Media pro capitalism and imperialism have been reported in recent days and that the servile national media played prepaid and which sounding without any analysis, under criticism, even about who the authors of the articles or columns and those behind.
Not only columns, complete sections have been devoted to the supposed benefits of the FTA means gringos like Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times , Miami Herald, etc.
Neither seudoperiodistas premises or their correspondents in the U.S. seudoperiodistas have the ability to see that all these articles are usually written by lobbyists hired by the Colombian government itself or by large multinationals interested only beneficiaries of NAFTA. Remember that the drug administration of former President Uribe spent more than $ 300 million in contracts with public relations professionals and lobbyists gringos whose main goal was (and still is, under the government of Santos) play the propaganda that is disseminated within country in relation to the success of Uribe's narco-government and the supposed benefits of NAFTA.
One many articles which have a contrary view to that of the mainstream media today Americans and Colombians pair them published in the news progressive portal colorlines.com under the title "Increase consensus on free trade agreements, together with evidence of its negative effects " . In this article then translate the following excerpts:
"The National Security Archive ( National Security Archive, NSA), an independent research group, released this month a series of documents that reveal disturbing new facts about the relationship between the multinational Chiquita Brands, based in Cincinnati, and the deadly web of paramilitary and guerrilla groups operating in Colombia. The documents reveal internal discussions of the company between 1990 and 2003 regarding funding of paramilitary groups, many of whom have been accused of systematic killings of trade unionists and other activists. The company Chiquita Brands has been defended by stating that payments were the result of extortion, but new documents released by NSA suggest that if the company benefited from the agreements signed with these criminal groups . "
"However, federal research has been conducted on the relationship between the company and the murders that have been able to finance their contributions and was closed. Chiquita achievement in 2007 that the investigation was filed by an agreement to pay $ 25 million in fines, which aims to show that bananas today produces at its plant in Colombia are not stained with blood. It seems that the blood of the fruit evaporates quickly on the occasion of the so-called free trade agreements in Latin America. "
" Besides the free trade agreement with Colombia, Panama's also and South Korea are now moving forward under the illusion of employment generation, which is the Obama campaign strategy to expand U.S. exports. It should be noted that these are treaties to which Obama opposed as a candidate during his campaign. Business Week also reports that Caterpillar company has launched a strong campaign to lobby for the treaty with Colombia as its mining industry is considered one of the most important sectors for the export market for construction equipment. "
"None of the jobs would be generated by these treaties are jobs that pay living wages with dignity, says Kristen Baifus organization Washington Fair Trade Coalition . In the U.S., or South Korea or Colombia, the jobs created are jobs with wages. And if they are generated, these jobs are in the informal sector and among a population to accept poverty wages. For poor people living in so-called treaty partner countries with the U.S., free trade has produced a new era of neocolonialism of exploitation. The deregulation of agriculture under the treaty with Mexico, for example, coincided with the devastation of the agricultural sector of Mexico , which led to the displacement of about one million farmers and the migration of many to North America looking for work. "
" Another example is what happened in El Salvador under the free trade agreement with Central America and Dominican Republic. Small and medium farmers of this country, have seen local markets that they were for rice, corn and other commodities have been flooded and captured by U.S. imports . "
"On the occasion of the recent disclosure of documents by the NSA, the biggest concern about the treaty with Colombia is now focused on labor rights, it is widely known that in this country to protest in favor of workers can be a sentence death. The recent turn of Obama expressing support for the treaty is the result of some measures to protect trade unionists have been incorporated as conditions of the treaty. However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has strongly criticized both President Obama as President Santos not to include stronger provisions on human rights. At least 51 trade unionists were murdered in 2010, a figure higher than the previous year. "
" According to HRW, although there is sufficient evidence that paramilitary organizations and groups successors are responsible for the vast majority of these crimes, including massacres and rapes, most of the killings have never been investigated. Therefore, labor protection conditions included in the treaty does not address the central issue of the problem: the systematic and ongoing operation of paramilitary groups that are behind most violence and other abuses against trade unionism. "
"The interests of multinationals in the discussion of treaties are also linked with other complex geopolitical factors. South Korea Washington serves as a buffer zone against the North Korean dictatorship, while Colombia is the key ally in the war on drugs in Latin America , where the White House is deploying a strategy similar to what is causing so much devastation in Mexico. "
" The fundamental point is that these treaties free trade are more beyond s rhetoric promises s to generate new jobs and markets. But despite the devastating experience with the treaty with Mexico, Washington still does not adopt a firm position Regulatory fair wages, working conditions and to protect small farmers. By contrast, political opportunists exploit globalization to eliminate trade barriers for multinationals and instead impose barriers that eliminate opportunities for everyone else. " The man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal - Bertolt Brecht
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