di Valeria Elena Benko,
It may have gone unnoticed but, on October the 21th, Barack Obama has signed the long sought-after free-trade agreement with Colombia and Panama, bringing to twenty the number of countries tied to the U.S. by treaties on commerce. The content of the deal is not new, as it had already been proposed by the second Bush Jr. administration, before being ruled out by Congress when Obama and the Democrats set in.
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