"The Free Trade Agreement is and exchange of food from the US to Colombia. They dump on us their worst wheat, rice, and cotton, and we try to sell our best products- coffee, gold, oil, and emeralds- over there. They have subsidies, we don't. We buy their rice cheaper than our own. It is no good for us," said Ramon, a farmer from Tolima.
"The Free Trade Agreement is and exchange of food from the US to Colombia. They dump on us their worst wheat, rice, and cotton, and we try to sell our best products- coffee, gold, oil, and emeralds- over there. They have subsidies, we don't. We buy their rice cheaper than our own. It is no good for us," said Ramon, a farmer from Tolima.