A balance sheet ---- On May 15 marked the period of one month for the entry into force of
the FTA between Colombia and the United States announced at the close of the Sixth Summit
of the Americas by President Barack Obama. The implementation of the same, the magnitude
of their impacts on different aspects of the production structure, will be crucial to
setting the draft country's future. ---- The negotiation and signing of this treaty,
rather than leading to the generation of wealth and welfare for the peoples of both
nations, was set in an act of submission by Colombia, another one that perpetuates the
shameful chain of historical events that for more than a century makes the country a true
'lackey of the empire'.

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