Andean FTA : Eternal Damnation and the Cargo Cult



An Andean FTA is so dangerous for the Environment. Because Colombian rulers and diplomats are accustomed to total obeyance and would sign the most Leonine and Stupid antiColombian Contract without thinking for a second.

As it stands today on August 30 Colombia is totally open to U. S. Cereals with subsidies of US $100 per ton. Colombia is Open from the first second.

While Colombian Agriculture is delayed with many years of custom taxes and fitosanitary whims, caprices and fancies or any U. S. Customs Ignorant Bureaucrat.

There are no objective fitosanitary Laboratories or Scientists, just bureaucratic whim.

When I was a kid in the most obscurantist school of the most obscurantist Catholic country, the school teachers taught : "Outside of the Catholic Church there is no salvation"..... ( apostasy and heresy lead you to hell, eternal fire and torture by the horned devils )

Our Colombian Rulers say "Outside of the U. S. Trade Agreement there is no Future for Colombia".

They have a "Cargo Cult" mentality, everything good comes from the USA. Like the primitive head-hunters and head-shrinkers of the Pacific Islands that met the American Army during the Second World War and Received gifts from the American Pilots. The developed a CARGO CULT or receiving gifts from the gods that descended from Heaven in Airplanes.

But the short term gains of America's Big Agriculture are going to be offset by the Ecological Destruction, Deforestation, Impoverishing of Peasants, Destruction of Tropical Jungle, sowing coca, poppies and drug plants, peasant eviction, beggars in the streets and pressure for emigration anywhere in the world ( including the USA )

And American Foreign Policy after harming "the best ally in Latin America" is going to be discredited.



Vicente Duque