Editorial Note: In April, I took a month off in Medellin. For me, this meant an interesting and diverting month. For you, this means 30 days of posts about my vacation. I’ll try to make them somewhat amusing.
Permit me a brief moment of political soapboxing: I think that the Obama administration’s bullying of the Colombian gov’t over the Colombian Free Trade Agreement is absolutely shameful. (Short version: The US is pressuring CO to change its domestic laws in certain regards according to the dictates of US leftist/labor interests in exchange for moving the FTA forward.)
Colombia is one of the US’s few good friends in Latin America, and, aside from that, has made great strides over the last decade in fighting its way back from some perilous circumstances. It should be applauded for the latter and rewarded for the former. Unfortunately, the current administration seems determined to paint the US as an untrustworthy friend and benign enemy.
Colombia deserves better.
