He was accompanied by six American congressmen
US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez concluded his visit to Colombia today in Medellin, the objective of which was to convince Democrats in the US Congress of the need to approve the Free Trade Agreement signed by Washington and Bogota.
Gutiérrez and six American congressmen accompanying him traveled to Medellín along with the United States ambassador to Bogotá, William Brownfield, and the Colombian ambassador to Washington, Carolina Barco, among other officials.
"We showed them what we are doing (...), what we have achieved," said the mayor of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, who received the delegation and accompanied them to the España Library Park, in a neighborhood on the northeastern hillsides of the city.
They all traveled there on the so-called Metrocable, an aerial cable car for passenger transport that functions as an arm of the metropolitan train of that capital of northwestern Colombia.
In addition to meeting with union leaders, the US mission visited a flower farm, the last activity of this visit that began last Friday in Bogotá with a business forum and interviews with high-ranking officials of the country, including the Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Luis Guillermo Plata.
On Saturday, Gutiérrez met with the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, with whom he later traveled to Bojayá or Bellavista, in the western jungles, where the country's leader inaugurated the new urban center of that town.
The settlement, called Nuevo Bellavista, was built one kilometer from the old one, which was affected by frequent flooding of the Atrato River and was the scene in 2003 of the death of 119 civilians caught in the middle of fighting between FARC guerrillas and paramilitaries from the dissolved "Elmer Cárdenas" Bloc (BEC).
Also traveling to the site were Democratic Representatives Emanuel Cleaver II, John Salazar, Kendrick Meeks, Jim McDermott, Gregory W. Meeks, and Edolphus 'Ed' Towns, and Republican Doc Hastings, who make up the legislative mission that accompanied Gutiérrez.
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