Gerardo Cajamarca Alarcón

Gerardo Cajamarca Alarcón

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Gerardo Cajamarca Alarcón, 43, is a native of Sasaima, a village in the coffee producing area of Colombia. He worked in Bogotá as a mechanic and in Facatativa, a small city west of Bogotá, where he became a town councilman with the backing of the Facatativa Popular Movement and the labor union SINALTRAINAL. He now works as an organizer for District 11 of the United Steelworkers. Through the Colombian Support Network, the USW raised money for him, and later and his family, to get out of Colombia. Mr. Cajamarca was quickly granted political asylum here, which enables him to legally remain and work. He flew from Bogotá to Madison, Wisconsin on Feb. 22, 2004 and said what he felt when he landed on that winter day was “tranquility.”

Blog Entries by Gerardo Cajamarca Alarcón

Insisting On Free Trade Agreements Is Unethical

Posted April 18, 2008 | 02:04 PM (EST)

On March 6th, after participating in the "Solidarity Action for the Victims of Terror in Colombia," I went to catch the plane back home to Minneapolis from Washington D.C.

While the passengers were boarding the plane, I read one of the last reports about the uselessness of having spent close...

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If I Could Show Congress the Real Colombia

8 Comments | Posted January 24, 2008 | 12:29 PM (EST)

When I heard that some Bush administration dignitaries were planning to offer Congressmen junkets to Bogotá to win their votes for the proposed Colombian Free Trade Agreement, I began to daydream about the tours of my home country that I'd like to give lawmakers to explain why the pact is...

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