Resources - Policy Statements
This section presents links to what people are saying about U.S. security policy around the world. Select one of the four types of policy statements from the menu at the right to filter the results below.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Ten years ago, our organizations launched a project to monitor U.S. military programs in Latin America. We did so out of concern that poor access to information made public and congressional oversight of such programs impossible. A myriad of funding mechaEnglish
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Dear Mr. Secretary-General: The Government of Ecuador has presented to you a formal protest against the aerial herbicide fumigations that Colombia is carrying out on its side of both countries' common border. The OAS Permanent Council will be considering English
Country(s):
Colombia
Ecuador
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Friday, November 17, 2006
The State and Defense Departments have just released their annual Foreign Military Training
Report (FMTR) covering 2005. 1 The report, required by Congress, documents the U.S. training
of foreign forces through a wide variety of military-aid programs.English
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Center for International Policy
<br />1717 Massachusetts Ave, NW Suite 801
<br />Washington, D.C.English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
After so much investment in weapons and offensives, is the country more secure, better governed, and out from under the illegal drug economy? English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
In July 2000, President Clinton signed into law a big aid package called “Plan Colombia,” with the ambitious goal of helping Colombia to resolve its related problems of drug trafficking and violence. Since then, the United States has given Colombia $4English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Monday, October 16, 2006
In late September and early October, we saw a flurry of activity around the possibility of talks between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas. This activity raised hopes for a prisoner-exchange deal that might free about sixty politicians, milEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, October 6, 2006
Álvaro Leyva, a former Colombian senator and minister who has been involved in his country's peace processes since the 1980s, is serving as a facilitator for what might become a round of talks with the FARC guerrillas. English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, will be in Washington tomorrow for a brief visit. Uribe’s hard-line security policies have made him popular at home, giving him a landslide re-election victory on May 28. Uribe hopes to maintain (or even iEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
At 5:00 yesterday (Good Friday), the U.S. government announced that coca cultivation in Colombia last year totaled 144,000 hectares, a level not seen since 2002. While this appears to be a 30,000-hectare increase over 2004 levels, the White House Drug CzaEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, April 7, 2006
"I look forward to an honest discussion later this year when Congress debates the reauthorization of Plan Colombia," reads an April 6 memo to colleagues from Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-New York). (This memo's text is at the end of this message.). &qEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
2006 marks the first time in my ten years that I am seeing even slight reductions in military assistance to the Western Hemisphere. This owes in no small part to the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA), which cuts some military aid to countriesEnglish
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Defense Department continues to expand its control over foreign military training programs that were once the exclusive province of the Department of State, lessening congressional oversight and weakening the relation of military assistance to overallEnglish
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
El Departamento de
Defensa tiene cada vez mas control sobre
los programas de capacitacion para militares
extranjeros, los cuales estaban antes bajo la
supervision exclusiva del Departamento de
Estado, reduciendo asi el control legislativo y
distorsiEnglish
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Unfortunately, rather than examples of progress, each of these cases demonstrate the particular weakness of the Colombian judicial system, and the Colombian government's failure to seriously investigate and prosecute members of the military involved in huEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Monday, August 1, 2005
This meeting comes at a historic juncture, as the US prepares to embark upon phase two of "Plan Colombia," the major aid package begun five years ago under President Clinton.English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, July 29, 2005
The process of consulting with human rights groups includes periodic meetings between U.S. embassy staff and groups in Colombia. On July 11, seven Colombian groups* prepared a document listing numerous cases illustrating the Colombian government’s failuEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
On July 12, many members of Congress received a fax from the Colombian Embassy
<br />offering “information about the Justice and Peace Law recently passed by the Colombian
<br />Congress.”English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, July 1, 2005
Why a weak peace agreement with Colombian paramilitary groups may be worse than no agreement at all.English
Country(s):
Colombia
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
If reducing drug use at home and fighting terrorists abroad are vital U.S. interests in the Americas, our current policy in Colombia is failing.English
Country(s):
Colombia
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