You learn something new every day. Rogoff teaches us that union member is Columbia are relatively safe & that the violence they experience comes from the rebels. Huh. Union leaders have a very short life span & the paramilitaries kill them. Here is what he said:
A case in point is union lobbying against the US-Colombia free-trade agreement, ratification of which would greatly advance US-Latin American relations. Legitimate questions about how the Colombian government conducted its epic civil war with drug-financed rebels do not trump broader issues. So anti-pact activists have complained that Colombia is anti-union because it does not protect union members from rebel violence. Yet the Colombian government notes that all Colombians suffer from rebel violence - union members actually experience less of it than the rest of the population. Is Rogoff willfully ignorant? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
