The United States continues to spend billions of dollars fighting the flow of cocaine from Colombia, even though one of the foremost initiatives, dubbed "Plan Colombia," has produced mixed results.
“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 ...
Plan Colombia is one of the most brazen foreign aid sleights of hand ever perpetrated by Washington. Since its launch in 2000, the more than $5 billion crusade was meant to help violence-torn Colombia ...
How to make enemies, squander billions and accomplish nothing: That's a U.S. program called Plan Colombia. Its central idea is to slow the flow of cocaine into the nostrils of American night-clubbers ...
Robert Novak's Feb. 20 op-ed column regarding congressional oversight of U.S. anti-narcotics policy in Colombia suggested that Plan Colombia is a failure and that "the Colombia crisis is getting worse ...