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Plan Colombia: Aiding the Drug War
August 30, 2000
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Since the 1980s, the United States government has been fighting a so-called "war on drugs," and has approved an unprecedented amount of foreign aid to assist the Colombian military in these efforts. But critics say that fighting left-wing rebels is the real purpose for this aid, and will only escalate violence in Colombia's civil conflict. On this program, we take a look at U.S. involvement in Colombia.
Featuring:
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE); Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN); Senator Trent Lott, Republican Senate Majority leader; Cecilia Zuarte-Luan, Colombia Support Network; Carlos Salinas, Amnesty International USA; Stan Goff, former special operations Army officer in Latin America; Antonio Prieto, Information Services Latin America; Lucy Rodriguez, Colombia Information Group; Roberto Cobraria, a tribal leader of the U'wa; Carwil James, Project Underground.
For more information:
Columbia Support Network
P.O. Box 1505
Madison, Wisconsin 53701
608-257-8753
Amnesty International USA
600 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Fifth Floor
Washington, DC 20003
www.amnestyusa.org
Columbia Information Group
650-493-3535
Information Services Latin America
1904 Franklin Street, #900
Oakland, California 94612
510-835-4692
www.igc.org/isla
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine St., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, California 94104
415-398-4404; beyondoil@ran.org
www.ran.org
Stan Goff
sherrynstan.org
Project Underground
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, California 94703
510-705-8981;
fax: 510-705-8983
www.moles.org