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Colombia Journal
December 1, 2008
And, like many other rural communities, San José has also been devastated by
the US-backed counternarcotics initiative called
Plan Colombia. ...
Houston Chronicle
November 29, 2008
Joe Biden, has come to an unsurprising conclusion: After more than $6 billion spent, the controversial drug control operation known as
Plan Colombia has ...
Providence Journal
November 28, 2008
Especially review Plan Colombia, which despite $6 billion spent and the laying waste of some Colombian countryside, has done nothing to reduce the ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
November 26, 2008
Since 2000, the States has been working with its ally on
Plan Colombia, aimed at halving illegal coca production.
the US$ 5 billion initiative has seen coca ...
The Reflector online
November 25, 2008
Now, thanks to
the US and their
Plan Colombia, since 2002,
kidnappings have dropped by 83 percent, terrorist attacks are down by 76 percent and murders have ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 25, 2008
Upon his election,
Ecuadorian
President Rafael Correa launched "Plan Ecuador," which - in contrast to "
Plan Colombia" - focuses on human security rather ...
la estrella
November 24, 2008
Now Washington has a plan --- the Merida Initiative, which is touted as a way to bring the success of
Plan Colombia to
Mexico,
Central America and
Panama. ...
South Coast Today
November 24, 2008
Joe Biden, has come to an unsurprising conclusion: After more than $6 billion spent, the controversial drug control operation known as
Plan Colombia has ...
Journal-Advocate
November 22, 2008
... Vice President-elect
Joe Biden who introduced the anti-drug aid package, known as '
Plan Colombia,' in the Senate during the Clinton administration. ...
Los Angeles Times
November 22, 2008
Worse, these units had been vetted by the
US State Department and, under the
Plan Colombia aid package, cleared to receive US funding. ...
The Narco News Bulletin
November 21, 2008
Undeterred by the abject failure of "Plan Colombia" to improve human rights and democracy in that country (but probably spurred on by how it has given that ...
New York Times
November 21, 2008
Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., an architect of
Plan Colombia, a 10-year-old program of military cooperation with
Colombia, will be the more ...
The Women's International Perspective
November 21, 2008
Grandin spoke of the controversial US "Plans" such as
Plan Colombia and Plan Merida (
Mexico) that ostensibly wage "war on drugs" but are really aimed at ...
CounterPunch
November 21, 2008
The Plan Colombia boondoogle. Didn't take no Republican to institute this piece of insanity. Only this year, the land under cultivation for cocaine in ...
Berkeley Daily Planet
November 21, 2008
Until recently,
the United States assistance to
Mexico's "war on drugs' paled in comparison to the funding for the failed
Plan Colombia counter-drug program ...
Workers World
November 21, 2008
"Because
Barack Obama came out against
Plan Colombia, the Afro-Colombian community came out in the thousands when he won," Rojas said. ...
Dallas Morning News
November 21, 2008
When the Clinton administration launched the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia aid package a decade ago, the country was at the brink of civil war. ...
Colombia Reports
November 20, 2008
The transistion office wouldn't say if Obama and Uribe talked about current issues like the pending free trade agreement or Plan Colombia, the multi-billion ...
BBC News
November 20, 2008
But Mr Santos played down the significance of the "
Plan Colombia"
US military aid package - worth more than half a billion dollars annually - aimed at ...
Inter Press Service
November 19, 2008
In his radio address, Correa said
the US-financed anti-drug and counterinsurgency
Plan Colombia was "a total failure," because
Colombia "has more ...
Fresno Bee (registration)
November 19, 2008
One of the key lessons learned from nine years and more than $6 billion of US support for Plan Colombia is that the drug war is a war in name mostly. ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
November 18, 2008
Recently,
Plan Colombia was one of these. It was based on a counter-narcotics aid package financed mostly by
Colombia and
the United States; its goal was to ...
New York Times
November 18, 2008
...
Assistant Secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, 1998-2002, helping develop
Plan Colombia, which has funneled billions in ...
New America Media
November 18, 2008
But Francisco Noguera Rocha,
Colombia's Consul General en New York, remains optimistic: It was vice-president elect
Joe Biden who presented "
Plan Colombia" ...
Newsweek
November 18, 2008
With bipartisan support in the
US Congress,
Plan Colombia doubled the police and all but demolished the "narcoguerrilla group"
FARC. ...
Sacramento Bee
November 16, 2008
... Vice President-elect
Joe Biden who introduced the anti-drug aid package, known as '
Plan Colombia,' in the Senate during the Clinton administration. ...
Los Angeles Times
November 15, 2008
Despite pressure from the
US State Department and the presence of Ambassador William B. Wood, who played a key role in
Plan Colombia as
the US envoy there ...
Colombia Reports
November 15, 2008
Plan Colombia, the joint US-
Colombian plan to battle leftist guerrillas and the production of coca in Colombia, is a "complete failure", says Ecuadorean ...
Los Angeles Times
November 14, 2008
Spraying from crop-dusters is still the preferred eradication weapon of
Plan Colombia,
the US-funded initiative targeting illegal drugs and
terrorism. ...
Upside Down World
November 14, 2008
Some
activists see this as an opportunity to present the movement's agenda vis a vis free trade and
Plan Colombia, to both national and international public ...
Foreign Policy In Focus
November 13, 2008
But Obama has supported both
Plan Colombia and Plan
Mexico (a newer and similar initiative), although he has questioned the "mix" of military and ...
Los Angeles Times
November 13, 2008
That cooperation has intensified in recent years under
Plan Colombia, the anti-drug and anti-
terrorism program that has channeled $5.5 billion in mostly ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
November 13, 2008
Furthermore, the
US government has financed the Colombian armed forces through
Plan Colombia at the rate of more than 5 billion dollars over the past decade ...
Dos Mundos
November 13, 2008
In a report released recently by the Government Accountability Office, investigators found that "Plan Colombia" - the comprehensive anti-drug scheme ...
Upside Down World
November 10, 2008
Unfortunately both of our governments, yours with Plan Colombia, and ours with the so-called 'Democratic Security' policy, have done great harm to ...
Colorado Daily
November 10, 2008
In their incendiary "Plan Colombia" presentation, the bees take participants on a "tour" through a larger-than-life graphic narrative of the multifold ...
Party for Socialism and Liberation
November 10, 2008
Democratic Security is only one small facet of the much larger Plan Colombia, Washington's multi-billion-dollar counterinsurgency program. ...
MercoPress
November 10, 2008
The five billion dollars US aid package known as the
Plan Colombia failed to halve illegal narcotics production in
Colombia, according to a report from the ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
November 8, 2008
It hoped to publicize its opposition to free trade agreements negotiated with
the United States,
Canada and the
EU,
Plan Colombia One and Two and free ...
Latin America Press
November 8, 2008
"
Plan Colombia arrived and we had to abandon our land so we wouldn´t die," said Wambutza, who now lives in Lago Agrio, the provincial capital of
Sucumbios, ...
