Canadian free trade report ignores human rights abuses in Colombia: Amnesty International

[Judi Lynn]

Canadian free trade report ignores human rights abuses in Colombia: Amnesty International
May 23, 2014 posted by Oliver Sheldon

Human rights groups active in Colombia are criticizing an annual free trade report released earlier this week by the Canadian government, saying that the report ignores grave human rights concerns throughout the South American country.

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In a response released on Tuesday, Amnesty International Canada expressed concern at the report and argued that it failed to acknowledge “the deadly repression faced by Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, trade unionists and others” in Colombia.

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In one 2012 example, Pacific Rubiales, the largest foreign oil company in Colombia, created its own in-house labor union in attempts to cut the legs out from under the USO, Colombia’s national oil workers union.

Pacific Rubiales is just one of the Canadian multinationals involved in Colombia’s mineral extraction sector, the focal point of numerous far-reaching human rights issues, including forced displacement and environmental degradation. Human rights reports show that Eco Oro, a Canadian gold mining firm formerly known as Greystar Ltd., actively financed military abuses in the region where its mine was located.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/canadian-free-trade-report-ignores-human-rights-abuses-colombia-amnesty-international/

[Louisiana1976]

1. Anything for free trade.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Canada's record throughout the Americas closely resembles the US' record,

different only in scale.

Anything for whoever has the force of power against the poor seems to be the rule everywhere in the Western Hemisphere which has been seized by the US, Canada, and the whores in each country who are more concerned with enriching themselves than in seeing the people themselves survive, who are more than happy to sell away their natural resources and the lives of the poor for whatever way the power wants to use them, even killing them to get them out of the way, if necessary.

More than happy to do it.

Evil has no rules other than those it imposes on the powerless.

What kills me is the attempts made by the right-wing power worshippers who attempt to pretend to have a "moral" point of view who stick their oversized noses into progressive cyber meeting places.
What can they possible imagine they resemble to sane people?