Since 2007 corporate media in the United States have vigorously promoted the passage of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, and coverage of this topic by the Los Angeles Times is representative of the media campaign in general. President Alvaro Uribe is presented as an indispensable geostrategic ally whose campaign against the FARC trumps all other concerns. This framing of the internal conflict serves as a façade behind which the violent advance of neoliberal exploitation takes place. Millions are dispossessed of land and resources, the environment is destroyed... [Read more in the attached article.]