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Andean Group - May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
ECONOMY: US domestic politics take FTA hostage
After almost five years on the backburner, the 2006 US-Colombia Free
Trade Agreement (FTA) was given a timeframe for ratification by the US Congress
in early April during a bilateral meeting between Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos
and the US's Barack Obama. Ironically, Colombian trade unionists, the most vocal
opponents to the FTA and to the US's ‘commercial imperialism', were the greatest
beneficiaries of the Santos-Obama agreement: before the US ratifies the FTA,
Colombia has to deliver on a series of commitments which serve as a guideline to
improve its human rights record, especially regarding violence against labour
leaders.
- Correa sticks to his schedule
- POLITICS & JUSTICE: Correa targets enemy number one
- ECONOMY: Morales hits nationalisation snag
- ENVIRONMENT: Granting nature legal rights
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: BOLIVIA
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: COLOMBIA
- SECURITY: Existence of internal conflict recognised
- CORRUPTION & ELECTIONS: Scandal grows; polling day approaches
- ECONOMY: US domestic politics take FTA hostage
- Politics: Why the election is so difficult to call
- POLITICS: A fillip for indigenous rights
- ECONOMIC OVERVIEW: PERU
- TRADE: Best Andean buddies in name only?
- ECONOMY: The Chávez bonanza
- Trilateral relations weather the storm