Its platform is not unlike that of far-right Christian conservatives an insistence that America was founded as a Christian nation, a call for America's withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organisation, the military sealing of America's borders against illegal immigrants, the end of anti-gun laws, drug tests for people on welfare.

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Opposition to what Colombians call the TLC (for tratado de libre comercio, free-trade agreement) is based solely on critics' not wanting Colombia to have close economic, military, political or cultural relations with the United States.

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