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This 5 page paper explains what the Columbia Plan was, and examines the United States' involvement in it. Examples are given which implicate the US's interests were far removed from those of human rights and geared more toward globalization efforts. Examples quoted, cited from text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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This plan was intended to end the war in Columbia and the resulting fallout which concerned neighboring countries. However, in the final analysis, it can be said that, not only
was the Plan Columbia as undemocratic as one can get, but its components will only, in theory, serve to escalate the violence, and not curtail or end it. "The
Plan Colombia was drafted in the U.S. Senate and implemented by [Colombian] President Andres Pastrana, but the people of Colombia were never consulted or included in this important decision," said
Episcopalian priest Monsignor Jaime Prieto during the opening press conference. "[As a result], the Plan is undemocratic...it does not represent a social investment in peace, but a plan for escalating
the war"(Rogers, 2002). When one begins to follow the paper trail and to see where the money was allocated, it becomes evident that this is more than a spurious remark
by a disgruntled priest. Reports show that nearly eighty percent of the United States 1.3 billion dollars investment is going for helicopters and weapons, not social programs such as
health clinics, industrial upgrades, or improved educational services(Rogers, 2002). "A further break-down of the 20 percent earmarked for social programs reveals that 8 percent of the aid is going
to alternative development; 6 percent to human rights programs; four percent to assist the 2 million Colombians who have been displaced by the war during the last 10 years; 2
percent to judicial reform; and less than 1 percent to directly support the ongoing peace process, according to a non-profit publication called the Colombia Report(Rogers, 2002).
Sadly enough, reform through brute strength is not going to be the answer one has to think, simply because the use of force has
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