A Hard Sell for a Trade Deal

• By Kate Ackley
• Roll Call Staff
• April 8, 2008, Midnight

Cartagena, Colombia — Less than 24 hours before President Bush announced that he would send Congress a politically charged free-trade agreement with Colombia, nine U.S. House Members gathered in this Caribbean port city to hear a pitch for the pact directly from the country’s leader, Álvaro Uribe.