International Trade committee  In closing, I'd like to make some points with respect to the death of a trade unionist. I've been working for 38 years for the Empaques company. Three union leaders have been killed throughout the history of the company. They have been killed for reasons that were totally differe

International Trade committee  I'd like to point out something here. Last year the situation in Venezuela caused unemployment, and quite a bit of unemployment in Colombia, in addition to the people from Venezuela who come in to Colombia. Unemployment is increasing in our country just from the problem with Ve

International Trade committee  I'd like to add something. If a free trade agreement with the United States and Canada doesn't take place, there's going to be more unemployment here. There won't be any possibility of employment for these young people who are coming out of school and universities. In the count

International Trade committee  That's right. Fifteen percent of our products went to Venezuela. At this point we're not selling even a kilo of our products. So we are selling absolutely nothing to Venezuela.