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|author=Tom Daschle
|source=The Washington Post
|date=June 25, 2007
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501468.html
|quote="There is evidence of conditions-based support from Congress leading to positive changes in Colombia. For example, the Leahy law on U.S. military aid, which prohibits U.S. security assistance to any foreign military unit credibly suspected of gross violations of human rights, has been an important tool in decreasing human rights abuses by Colombian military and police units."
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{{opinion|Colombia-United States Free Trade Agreement|Agreement should be ratified|mixed}}