President Alvaro Uribe lashed out at U.S. lawmakers for treating Colombia like a “pariah” by refusing to pass a trade agreement amid a scandal linking his government to murderous right-wing paramilitaries. “We cannot accept that free trade agreements with Panama and Peru are approved while Colombia is punished in this battle, treated like a pariah,” an angry Uribe, Washington’s staunchest ally in Latin America, said at a military ceremony Friday. “This is unacceptable.” Full Story
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