Posted on 04/10/2015 8:07:59 AM PDT by McGruff
For union organizers in Colombia, the dangers of their trade were intensifying. When workers at the country’s largest independent oil company staged a strike in 2011, the Colombian military rounded them up at gunpoint and threatened violence if they failed to disband, according to human rights organizations. Similar intimidation tactics against the workers, say labor leaders, amounted to an everyday feature of life.
For the United States, these were precisely the sorts of discomfiting accounts that were supposed to be prevented in Colombia under a labor agreement that accompanied a recently signed free trade pact liberalizing the exchange of goods between the countries. From Washington to Bogota, leaders had promoted the pact as a win for all -- a deal that would at once boost trade while strengthening the rights of embattled Colombian labor organizers. That formulation had previously drawn skepticism from many prominent Democrats, among them Hillary Clinton.
Yet as union leaders and human rights activists conveyed these harrowing reports of violence to then-Secretary of State Clinton in late 2011, urging her to pressure the Colombian government to protect labor organizers, she responded first with silence, these organizers say. The State Department publicly praised Colombia’s progress on human rights, thereby permitting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to flow to the same Colombian military that labor activists say helped intimidate workers.
At the same time that Clinton's State Department was lauding Colombia’s human rights record, her family was forging a financial relationship with Pacific Rubiales, the sprawling Canadian petroleum company at the center of Colombia’s labor strife. The Clintons were also developing commercial ties with the oil giant’s founder, Canadian financier Frank Giustra, who now occupies a seat on the board of the Clinton Foundation, the family’s global philanthropic empire.
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UNIONS everywhere are ALWAYS communist front organizations..
OR local mafia or BOTH...
Lengthy, but good, article. In case you don’t want to read it all - it states exactly what you’d expect from the Clintons (and Obama) - lie, cheat, steal, influence for hire; rinse/repeat.
This is also a good article. Unfortunately, it seems that at this point in time, these types of scandals are resume enhancers for Leftists Democrats.
How many apparatchiks have been inside government since the 90’s? How many departments of the Executive Branch are completely compromised by Leftists?
They’ve had 25 years to consolidate power. Leftists who entered Federal service during the Reign Of Terror (1993-2000) are approaching retirement age - doesn’t THAT give you a warm fuzzy?
They’ve held power in this nation for a generation.
No telling how many. Scary.
All prerequisite for the Democrat Candidate.
As long as the dems promise to cut in the moocher class, all corruption and conspiracy from the looter class is excused.
And it was Bush 43 who failed to clean house after the un-housebroken Clintoons. Now you’ve peedmeoff for the rest of the day.
Ja, no kidding. A golden opportunity wasted...
Hillary will have the money to run for president.
5.56mm
I wonder if those bogata to mena...flights are still happening?
Just think, the unions will still give millions to her.
Hey old FRiend. Good to see you.
Ah the dictatorship of the proletariat, the workers' paradise... Whoever dubbed communism "the beautiful lie" certainly knew what it was all about.
What if Hill is too ugly, the American people reject her, what will all those corrupting foreign interests do?
It can’t be allowed to happen. She must be President, by hook or by crook.
The media needs to understand. Unions that give lots of money to democrats are completely different than unions that don’t.
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