Chavez is sending troops to the Columbian border.  Rattling his sabers. 

The wacko free traders say we need to sign the Columbia Free Trade Agreement because of this?

So allowing Columbian companies to sue our municipalities for interfering with their investments will help? And faux harmonization of food and product safety laws will help?  Transnational corporate lobbyist written tariff schedules on pop-up books will deter Chavez?  [Yes, Columbia is one of the largest producers of pop-up books in the world.]

If there's a problem, then send them military support.  Advice.  Gear.  Military stuff.  Don't just rubber stamp another stupid NAFTA-style outsourcing agreement.

My point, if you did not get it, is that the Columbia FTA has nothing to do with Chavez or foreign relations. 

The people who try to sell you this snake oil are either dumb, or think you are dumb.  Watch now for editorial boards populated with journalism school graduates who never took economics to scold us with lectures on Economics 101.

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