Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute. As the United States becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in Colombia, individual Americans here, conscious of the threat of ...
Three years ago this summer, President Clinton signed a $1.3 billion spending bill for “Plan Colombia,” aimed at curbing violence in Colombia and drug abuse in the United States. Don’t expect festive ...
“Plan Colombia” is a multi-pronged, multi-billion dollar effort to battle drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), insurgencies and paramilitary groups in the Andean nation. Passed in 2000 at the tail ...