I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.