Times editorial: Colombia deserves a trade deal
May 28, 2008 | 8:45
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This Los Angeles Times editorial argues that Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe has bent over backward to try to get a controversial trade deal approved by the U.S. Congress, and he deserves for it to go through.
"If the proposed free trade pact with Colombia is not approved by the U.S. Congress, it won't be because President Alvaro Uribe gave up. Rather, he has used every diplomatic tool within reach. His latest volley in the back and forth with Washington is the extradition of 14 right-wing paramilitary leaders to the United States on drug-trafficking charges."
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
