On July 13, 2000 – 10 years ago yesterday – President Bill Clinton signed into law a special $1.3 billion appropriation of mostly military aid to Colombia. Known as “Plan Colombia,” it became the framework for U.S. assistance to the hemisphere’s largest aid recipient for the following decade.
The Washington Office on Latin America commemorates this anniversary with a new online publication, “Don’t Call it a Model,” a copy of which is hosted...
On May 18, 2010, Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana), the Republican minority-party leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a detailed report evaluating U.S. aid to Mexico since the 2007 launch of the Mérida Initiative (download the PDF). This report included a very detailed table of aid that has been delivered, or is pending delivery, through the State Department's International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (...
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The U.S.S. Kearsarge is among 46 naval warships given permission to enter Costa Rican territorial waters between July 1 and December 31.
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On July 1, Costa Rica’s legislative assembly approved a significant expansion of the U.S....
Much recent violence was concentrated in the Antioquia department in northwestern Colombia. There, in one six-day period, nineteen people were killed in three separate attacks.
The first of these massacres occurred Friday July 2, in Envigado near Medellín, where eight were killed in a shooting at a...
Adam and Abigail review the week of July 3-9, focusing on massacres in Colombia, state elections in Mexico, Brazil's presidential race, a clandestine submarine in Ecuador, and recent U.S. naval exercises.
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Over the past few years, the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been working with the Colombian government on a new security and development strategy. At times called "Integrated Action," the Colombian government refers to it as the National Consolidation Plan--PCN for its acronym in Spanish.
This strategy was designed to be a phased, coordinated process of bringing a functioning government into zones throughout the country that have never known one. As described in the Center for International Policy's recent publication...