Benefits of Free Trade - Ambassador William Brownfield

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/24/The_Honorable_William_R_Brownfield_on_Colombia

U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield gives his views on the importance of free trade agreements between the United States and Colombia, as well as with other nations.

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Ambassador William R. Brownfield, United States Ambassador to Colombia outlines the current challenges facing Colombia and discusses the U.S.-Colombia relationship. Following his presentation, he answers questions from the audience.

Ambassador William Brownfield, a career minister in the Senior Foreign Service, was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Colombia on August 21, 2007. Before arriving in Colombia, Ambassador Brownfield served as U.S. Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Chile. His first assignment after joining the Foreign Service in 1979 was in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

Ambassador Brownfield's other overseas postings also include Counselor for Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva and assignments in Argentina and El Salvador. He was temporarily assigned as Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command in Panama 1989-90.In Washington, Ambassador Brownfield's assignments have included Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA), Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), Executive Assistant in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs.

Ambassador Brownfield is a graduate of Cornell University (1974) and the National War College (1993); he also attended the University of Texas School of Law (1976-78). He speaks Spanish and French. He is a native of the State of Texas.

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[denimdonna]

He looks like Bush's cousin or or Brzezinski's 1/2 brother or any one of the queen's bastard sons. Follow the bloodline and I bet you'll find a link. Did you know that Cheney and Obama are related by blood too? Obama made a joke about "not going to the family reunion anytime soon....but that they were cousins like 8 generations back or something." Now we may see the distance in a down the road cousin...but these bastards don't. It's paramount to their agenda.

[drvn8]

this dork says colombia needs to have their own resource and revenue base in order for them to gain support from the int'l community (u.s. in particular)... what a load of shit... they already have one and we've made it illegal... maybe because it does not give the u.s. the financial advantage in the exchange

[westonsz]

With a name like Brownfield I am not suprised this guy supports free trade since it does create many brownfields here in the U.S. I suggest we see if we can trade Brownfield himself to China for a few dollars that could pay the deficit off that the worthless, lying politicians here have ran up at the expense of our children. If free trade is so great then why is our country falling apart and going bankrupt?

[FireProMMA]

I'm sorry, but I can't take this guy seriously.

[havoc092]

@navh2000 Good question, which, btw, you're not supposed to ask. All the jobs lost resulted in people having no incomes to pay mortgages with. That caused the housing collapse. We're being fed a line by the media and the parties that the housing collapse, rather, caused the economy to collapse. There's no end to the deciet. The solution is to run the globalist two party system out of existence and try these people for high crimes.

[havoc092]

Free trade is the tactic used by King George to undermine the colonial economy in attempt to stop Americans from gathering wealth. This is a matter of history and it led to the revolutionary war. That should tell you all you need to know about it. The founders would call it treason. The two parties call it free trade. These people should be brought to justice for this treachery.

[navh2000]

If all is good and all is well then why Are you making 8 trillion bailouts. 18 million homes repoed about 30 million working Americans dependant on food banks. Sounds like trade deals have been good for corporations not people.

[isanewday]

America para los Americanos.

[canadastreetmedia]

If You export Your Job for a dollar less an hour, where will you work ?

Note : all of the other Jobs have also been exported away for less wages already .

also We bought your house and raised the rent... how will you pay it now ?

The Pizza shack is hiring and you can rent a place in Detroit really cheap.

or you could be a volunteer farm worker for free keep in the southern states.

[bubba007ss]

Free trade is destroying Americas way of life