Time For A Change
U.S. Trade and Military Policies in Colombia
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After five decades of internal conflict rooted in economic inequality, Colombia is in crisis as military, paramilitary and guerilla groups continue to terrorize the countryside in battles over land and power.
Through Plan Colombia I (war on drugs), the U.S. government has provided billions of dollars in military aid to the Colombian government during the past decade. This funding was provided despite the Colombian government's involvement in what the United Nations has categorized as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere.[1]
Despite these violations and the failure of U.S. policies to reduce coca production and end the now 50 year-old conflict, the U.S. is preparing to fund Plan Colombia II and has negotiated a new free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia. The U.S. and Colombia signed the trade pact on November 22, 2006, and it must be voted on in Congress before July 1, 2001.
- U.S.-Colombia Relations at a tipping point
- More human insecurity and displacement
- Silencing critics
- Natural resource control
- Threatened collective territories and the environment
- Change direction on trade and war in Colombia
[1]Talking Sense on Colombia, American Friends Service Committee, 2000.
