Plan Colombia: Cashing-In on the Drug War Failure
20 years of US “war-on-drugs” in Colombia paid for by U.S. tax-payers. Still, more and more drugs and narco-dollars are entering the US every year.Is it a failure or a smokescreen by Washington to secure Colombia’s oil & natural resources instead? Now that the U.S. State Department officially shifted its priority in Colombia from “counter-narcotics” to “counter-insurgency” conveniently dubbed “anti-terrorism”, what is left today of the alleged anti-drug purpose of the U.S. “Plan Colombia”?
While cocaine trafficking and money-laundering are skyrocketing to unseen proportions, is the current U.S. “oil” administration even concerned with fighting drugs in Colombia, another top oil supplier to the U.S., when its U.S.-friendly regime is being threatened by powerful leftist guerrilla groups? (Excerpt from freewillprod.com)
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DarrenSooooooooooo I actually LIVE in Medellin Colombia and KNOW that this documentary is accurate.fruits and vegetables should be washed thoroughly because of all the pesticides and chemicals from USA. This is an atrocity and Naom had it right. AMERICA HAS NO RIGHT TO BE IN COLOMBIA- same old songhahaha at the people who think they are experts because of watching this type of documentary. i see these people everywhere in modern times. they are rebels against themselves just for the sake of rebellion but would poop their pants if they had to live in these immoral places with desperate violent groups
- same old songhey people you are so down on america, then leave. if you travel outside of the u.s. you will understand why tackling these problems is not black and white. people in a lot of other countries think totally differently than people here. travel. read. look unbiasedly. dont criticize your own country because you think you are an expert because you watched a documentary with an agenda. you are the perfect sheep.
- don@aron n jim spot on brothers people need to be shown the facts and common sense will prevail.admitidley this will be a struggle in the so called civilised western society that i live in,As brainwashing happens on a daily occurence through your tv.FACT no god exists anyone who can prove other wise im game for a laugh.education,education,education.Read,read,read.Make up your own mind,be your own god
- AronThere is no difference between USA secret assignments and the Nazi government i have always thought it was a country with human rights and moral values, but it is so good hidden that nobody would doubt it is its power certainly giving the right to label others and accuse them of whatever it is convenient to its own country's development financially and strength of military to rule and slave countries for cheap labor and many other political purposes corruption that profits millions of dollars to its allies in power with the supporting of illegal agreements that are so well covered that nobody cares while Americans have comfortable lives others starve and suffer the unfortunate of living in undeveloped worlds that often blame their own ones without knowing it is more of above powers who decide in what directions their lives and future will take place. No secret that for a country to become this powerful would take extreme actions of take whoever is on the way out and force them to give up everything they have and live off their scraps for not having enough power to fight for what they owned their rights their dignity ,and freedom that only seems clearly in favor of developed countries to deserve to have. USA the greatest imperialist in modern history and the police ruler of mainly undeveloped third world countries
- JimmyInstalling millitary bases on Colombian soil with the help of the ruling elite, who are protecting their interests with the help of America, is not an act of war but still an immoral and unjust thing to do.
FARC may use immoral means to aquire funds aswell, but they are the result of the ruling elites opression and crimes against the poor majority in Colombia. The death squads controled by the ruling elite was trained by CIA and has been comitting crimes and murders agianst the Colombian people for many years now and are still active.
Without FARC, there wouldnät be a political opposition. The ruling elite has been forced to allow an opposition too weaken support for FARC.
The drug running is interlaced with the government and it's judicial system. The level of corruption in Colombia is appaling. The U.S support for this Government only goes to show that their real interests in Colombia is not drugs at all, but it's geopolitical importance, and the build up of force against the neighbouring country of Venezuela who refuse to be under the U.S sphere of controle. - pate riversu people amaze me....dont believe everything u see or read..so u watch one documentary and now u believe it all..go take a course in colombian history, colombian/american history. colombia has had paramilitary groups for a long long time.Farc (the largest) for example was formed in 1964 by a bunch of communists to fight Colombian military. farc is kidnapping for ransom and killing their own people and since the fall of the medellin,cali ,norte valle cartels they also control and tax most of the coke that comes out of columbia. they have formed tight bonds with violent mexican cartels. they were never organized to protect their countrymen from america. only later was that claim made-its bs. they are making lots of money. they r terrorists destroying their own country trying to take power.The 19th of April Movement(at one time the second largest but later demobilized) was founded in 1970 when military dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla lost the presidency he claimed fraud and the group was started. The 19th of April Movement was funded by the Medellin cartel(pablo escobar, carlos lehder among others). wonder why?? this doc. left out very important points. colombia wants something from us just as much as we want something from them. they are major import/export partners. The bush administration was the first to sign a free trade agreement with colombia but opposed by liberal labor and human rights groups because of Bogota's history of intolerance of labor activism. just in case u dont know free trade means trade without gov. interference. we have never "invaded" them for their resources. This is what's wrong with our country today too many people are riding the opinions of others instead of educating themselves with information from both sides left and right and then making their own opinion. ask obama he will tell u. thats how he got elected
- adam smithits the same story everywhere the american armys are. there is only ever one reason why the us invades countries and thats for its resources. the american gov. says they are fighting the war on terror, well i have news for you the american gov are the terrorists. what gives them the right to enter any country??? no wonder there are so many malitias and gorrila groups around the globe. they are simply trying to protect from foreign invaders(united states) one day when people wake up they will realise who the real criminals are in the world. people are going to revolt and the us is going to take the brunt of it because they are the ones who are responsible for most the chaos around the world. greed and minipulation will only last so long and after you have taken everything away from the people then we are going to see catastrophic consequences. i wish people could see through the lies that the amaericans are creating. the us has one goal and it is to unite the world under one dictatorship.....theirs. anti american is the new revolution and we the people will not stand for the corruption of the american government!!!!
- K.X.Our "western" culture is simply DISGUSTING. U.S. could have simply made columbia a state, but NO, they want slaves not people with rights, they want even more poor people to leech so that we can grow fat, pay thousands of dollars for diets, plastic junk and watch more TV that shows only propaganda.
We in turn are the "second layer" of this disgusting setup that work so the government and the selected rich few can pay for weapons to keep us and the slave countries at bay.
If the world was one country earth could provide for all. Science would get us to levels were labor would be almost not needed instead of focusing on making stupid weapons. We are backward, we are even worse than Nazis that wanted at least to make a united country of earth and not some kind of king of countries with it's country-slaves.
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