RT Article
T1 Plan Colombia: rhetoric, reality, and the press
JF Social justice
VO 27
IS 4
SP 63
OP 75
A1 Delacour, Justin
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159379
AB Part of a special issue on neoliberalism, militarism, and armed conflict. The billion dollar aid package to Colombia agreed by the Senate in June 2000 is supposedly designed to fight the production and trafficking of illegal narcotics in Colombia, but the biggest beneficiary of the package is the Colombian army. This army has been associated with extensive human rights violations, and Plan Colombia was deeply opposed by human rights groups and many social and nongovernmental organizations in both countries. Furthermore, President Bill Clinton waived five of the six human rights conditions in the package in August 2000, basically making a mockery of the administration's declared concern for human rights.
K1 Economic assistance, American
K1 Paramilitary forces
K1 Military relations
K1 American military assistance
K1 Drug control
K1 Colombia in the press
K1 Human Rights