"With icy precision, The Profits Of Extermination makes real the meaning behind the terms FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas), globalization and neo-liberalism."

Cecelia Zarate-Laun, Program Director of the Colombia Support Network

"Francisco Ramirez, focusing on the mining industry in which he is involved as a unionist, recounts in detail the struggles of his fellow workers and the violent response by the mining corporations and the US and Colombian military which protect them. We should be grateful for real heroes like Francisco Ramirez."

Daniel M. Kovalik, Assistant General Counsel, United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC

The Profits Of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia
by Francisco Ramírez Cuellar with introduction by Aviva Chomsky
Publisher, Common Courage Press
April 2005
Paperback, 142 pages
ISBN: 1567513220
$10.00 (see below)

Description:
The Profits Of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners. Colombia is the third-largest recipient of US military aid. According to this study by the Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, president of the Colombian mineworkers’ union, and historian Aviva Chomsky, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments.