August 07, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Flower Power - But Not for the Workers -- The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States that could be signed in October or November this year will maintain the tariff exemptions already enjoyed by Colombia's flourishing flower industry. But there are no plans for higher wages and better working conditions for the industry's 100,000 workers.
June 29, 2006 Prensa Latina
	Anti-FTA Rally Shakes Lima -- Thousands of Peruvians made Lima shudder with a rally against the congressional ratification Thursday morning of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.
June 28, 2006 BBC
	Peru ratifies US free trade deal -- Peru’s outgoing Congress has voted overwhelmingly to ratify a free trade deal with the US amid protests by recently elected opposition deputies.
June 17, 2006 Associated Press
	Bolivia changes mind on US trade deal -- The government of President Evo Morales said Friday it hopes to negotiate a free trade agreement with the U.S., a policy turnaround apparently influenced by pressure from business groups.
June 17, 2006 Inter Press Service
	US/Colombia: Dead unionists no hurdle to free trade -- The US government is not only a step away from ratifying a new free trade agreement, but also from rewarding persistent and severe human rights abuses in Colombia, where each year more trade union leaders are murdered than in all other nations put together, a new report charges.
May 22, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US -- Indigenous and campesino protests against the free trade deal that Colombia is negotiating with the United States drew a harsh military response from the government of rightwing President Álvaro Uribe, leaving an as yet unknown number of people dead, injured or missing.
May 18, 2006 Prensa Latina
	US FTA tricks Colombia farmers -- When a Colombian top-level delegation travelled to Washington last week to supposedly resolve the contradictions between the Spanish and English versions of the FTA, they instead agreed to import aged US hens to Colombia. US poultry farmers regard those hens as waste, since they are sterile.
April 26, 2006 Associated Press
	Trade Deal Threatens the War on Drugs -- For 25 years, Victor Murillo has grown rice on a five-acre (2-hectare) plot in Colombia's central farm belt. But with a new trade pact with the United States threatening his livelihood, he's tempted to switch to a new crop: the tall, stalky coca plant that yields cocaine.
March 16, 2006 Magic City Morning Star
	Trade Policy: A More Balanced Approach is Needed -- In today's world of outsourcing and increased foreign competition, it is more important than ever to examine closely the policies that will affect our economy. Our nation already scrutinizes policy from a business perspective, as it should - but we must also be far more mindful of the effects that globalization has on our nation's workers and the workers in the countries that we do business with.
March 14, 2006 Reuters
	Ecuador Indians protest US talks, economy hurt -- Thousands of Ecuadorean Indians blocked highways with burning tires and rubble on Tuesday to protest U.S. free trade talks as a second day of demonstrations began to hurt the Andean country's economy.
March 09, 2006 National Journal's CongressDailyAM
	Democrats, Labor Sound Warnings On Peru Free-Trade Deal -- House Democrats and a major labor union sounded warnings Wednesday on the U.S.-Peru free-trade agreement, which the Bush administration might submit for congressional approval this year.
March 08, 2006 Bloomberg
	Colombia, U.S. Trade Partner, Violates Labor Rights, Study Says -- Workers in Colombia face legal hurdles to organizing unions and are often threatened with violence, according to a U.S. government report that may raise questions about a recent trade agreement with the Andean nation.
December 08, 2005 Washington Post
	U.S., Peru Strike Free-Trade Agreement -- The United States and Peru struck a deal yesterday on a free-trade agreement, the latest move in the Bush administration's efforts to build a network of trade accords with friendly countries.
October 24, 2005 BNA No. 204
	Trade Official Sees Possibility Of Closing Andean FTA in November -- A U.S. trade official told reporters Oct. 21 that it is possible to finish U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement negotiations in November but indicated that there is still a lot of ground to cover in agriculture as well as other areas.
September 23, 2005 CNN
	Anti-free trade protests held in Colombia -- Thousands marched through the streets of Colombia's capital and another city on Thursday, protesting a planned trade agreement with the United States which they fear would worsen unemployment in Colombia.
July 25, 2005 Miami Herald
	TRADE NEGOTIATORS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND THREE SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES SPENT A WEEK DISCUSSING TOPICS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU -- So you think trade negotiations are all about lowering tariffs on imports? Think again. Television programming, medical services, new drugs and even the way local, state and federal governments do their buying and contracting are all potentially on the table in the state-of-the-art free trade agreements being negotiated around the world.
July 14, 2005 Reuters
	Thousands of Peruvians protest U.S. trade pact -- Thousands of Peruvians protested on Wednesday against a proposed U.S.-trade pact that a United Nations investigator warned would put medicines out of reach of millions of poor people. Farmers, doctors and politicians, some dressed as ghosts and skeletons, marched through central Lima to decry a U.S free-trade deal they see as a way of bullying Peru to allow U.S. companies to dominate its markets.
June 30, 2005 New York Times
	Trade Pacts to the South Losing Appeal -- An ambitious American plan for a hemisphere-wide trade pact, which President Bush described as a "vital link for prosperity," is mired in disputes that have led to widespread skepticism about its chances of ever materializing. ... Looking farther south, the Andean nations of Bolivia and Ecuador, rocked by tumult, have little latitude to sign a trade deal anytime soon. Even Peru and Colombia, both close to the United States, are hesitating because of concerns that their farming sectors will be swamped by cheap, subsidized American imports.
December 02, 2004 Tucson Citizen
	Andean agreement would block conservation of natural resources -- The Andean Free Trade Agreement would accelerate clear-cut logging, weaken protection from invasive species and genetically modified organisms, and block three South American nations from conserving their natural resources.
October 21, 2004 Reuters
	Colombia must be firm in U.S. trade talks-Stiglitz -- Colombia must defend its corn and rice farmers in trade talks with the United States or risk a rise in the coca cultivation that feeds the South American country's violent drug trade, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Reuters.
July 15, 2004 Inter Press Service
	Peru: Unprotected health -- The free trade accord being negotiated between Peru and the United States can weaken the guarantees of protection to health established in international treaties and increase the price of essential medicines to levels out of the reach of millions of Peruvians, warned Paul Hunt, special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission for health rights.