Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Seeks to Slash Colombia Trade Tarrifs."
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Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Seeks to Slash Colombia Trade Tarrifs."
Facing what are widely seen as long odds, President Bush on Monday began the contentious process of trying to win congressional approval of a free trade agreement with Colombia that critics, including many in the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill, say does not do enough to protect workers here or in the South American nation. [. . .]
Peter DeShazo, a former deputy assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, said Congress' failure to approve the measure would "be seen by Colombians as the U.S. turning its back on a good friend in the region."
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