The United States Senate extended Plan Colombia for another year Thursday, guaranteeing its help in combatting leftist guerrillas and the production and trafficking of cocaine in Colombia.
Both the continuation of Plan Colombia and axtra financial help for Mexico en Belize's counternarcotic effort make part of the general defense bill for 2010, Spanish press agency EFE reported Thursday.
Since 2000, the U.S. spent US$6 billion in Plan Colombia. U.S. former officials like President Bill Clinton and the current administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have called the plan a success. Colombia has lobbied a continuuation of the plan.
Critics say the investment did not result in the reduction of cocaine and has shown little effect on the U.S. cocaine market. The aerial fumagation of coca crops that was a vital part of Plan Colombia initially received criticism for its impact on the health of those living in areas where spraying took place and its devestating effect on other crops.
U.S. Congress included in the bill that the U.S. military is not allowed to station more than 800 soldiers and 600 civilians in Colombia. These troops are part of a pending cooperation that allows the U.S. to use seven military bases in Colombia to fight terrorism and drug trafficking.
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Andrewmann552
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... Noam Chomsky says it all: South American concerns have also been aroused by an April 2009 document of the US Air Mobility Command, which proposes that the Palanquero base in Colombia could become a "cooperative security location" from which "mobility operations could be executed." The report noted that from Palanquero, "Nearly half the continent can be covered by a C-17 (military transport) without refueling." This could form part of "a global en route strategy," which "helps achieve the regional engagement strategy and assists with the mobility routing to Africa." For the present, "the strategy to place [the base] at Palanquero should be sufficient for air mobility reach on the South American continent," the document concludes, but it goes on to explore options for extending the system to Africa with additional bases, all of which are to form part of the system of global surveillance, control, and intervention. |
Andrewmann552
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... Chomsky lo dice todo: La preocupación de los sudamericanos se ha incrementado por un documento de abril de 2009, producido por el comando de movilidad aérea estadunidense (US Air Mobility Command), que propone que la base de Palanquero, en Colombia, pueda convertirse en el "sitio de seguridad cooperativa" desde el cual "puedan ejecutarse operaciones de movilidad". El informe anota que, desde Palanquero, "casi medio continente puede ser cubierto con un C-17 (un aerotransporte militar) sin recargar combustible". Esto podría formar parte de "una estrategia global en ruta", que "ayude a lograr una estrategia regional de combate y con la movilidad de los trayectos hacia áfrica". Por ahora, "la estrategia para situar la base en Palanquero debe ser suficiente para fijar el alcance de la movilidad aérea en el continente sudamericano", concluye el documento, pero prosigue explorando opciones para extender el sistema a áfrica con bases adicionales, todo como parte de un sistema global de vigilancia, control e intervención. http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20090921(2).htm |
makopp5
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... Chomsy is one of this typicaly lefty who thinks he knows it all, but in reallity, he like the socialism just for others and not for him. Why he does not liev in Venezuela or Cuba? There he can live 100% his socialism ideas and has not to suffer from an government like in the US BTW these movilidad is for human help designed. And the Plan Colombia was a great sucess for the Colombian people. Thanks US. The US is helping Colombia. What are doing the EU? How much money do they spend on drugs? How much money do they spend to help Colombia? |
tomtom33
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... The military produces a lot of documents as does the government. I can go through documents and make the case the down is up. I was in the US Army for 6 years and worked for the US Dept. of Labor for 9 years. Tell me about your real world work experience. PS - Reading Chomsky doesn't count. |
azunoman
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... CR's, can we get a poll please? US, Colombia's best partner or greatest partner ever? |
Bluebird
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... Do we really have to be subjected to Chomsky excerpts here? What's next? Posting commercials??? (which is what that really is) You don't see any one else posting excerpts from their heros. |
Medellin Colombia
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... Noam Chomsky is a committed leftist who will object to the use of American military power in any way. Thank god he is what he is: a washed up intellectual with no power and minimal credibility. |
Andrewmann552
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... tomtom, please clarify what expertise you have in processing, compiling or dictating military documents pertaining to national policy. I doubt you were in the policy making sessions at the Pentagon. Medellin, Colombia, please back up your attacks with facts. By the way, Chomsky lectured at the Pentagon a year ago. You can find it on YouTube. Bluebird, I imagine you can also post quotes from your heroes. Although it is hard to find decent material by Franco, Pinochet, Fujimori or Trujillo. |
Bluebird
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... @Andrew....... you are a funny guy! LOL You are always good for a couple of laughs..thanks man! |
tomtom33
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... Very few people directly participate in making policy but many grunts write many things for many reasons. I guess that you and Chomsky have my government and military experience beat. Your lack of real world experience is showing. Blather on. |
azunoman
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... good lawd....I read Chomsky, but many other writers as well, haven't found one that I have a fetish for. Doing this you can form your own opinion. Andrew you appear to be losing it man...focus.....as for all this BS...the majority rules...get over it... |
Myrddraal
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... Andrew- The US military also has plans for an invasion of Canada. Not because they actually plan to invade Canada but because there are people in the military whose jobs are to write up what-if scenarios. It is the job of a military to not be caught with its pants around its ankles. So they write up thousands and thousands of what-ifs that way if any type of plan becomes necessary they at least have an idea to go off of. |
azunoman
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... lived seven years in Canada...we may want their fresh water supply someday.....just a what if...  |
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