P L A N* C O L O M B I A
BEFORE
PLAN COLOMBIA
Situation
in the U.S.
Situation in Colombia
Policy Before Plan Colombia
PLAN
COLOMBIA
Role
of the U.S.
Military Mission
Coca Eradication
RESULTS
OF PLAN COLOMBIA
Ecological
Devastation
Socio-Economic Devastation
Cultural Devastation
A
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Plan
Colonia
Parallels: Colombia and Vietnam?
By.
Carmen Guhn-Knight
cmguhnkn@mtholyoke.edu
Updated 05.05.06.
With Thanks To Mount Holyoke College
and Thanks to the Beehive
Design Collective
for the Black and White Cartoons
Plan Colombia is a controversial aid initiative created by President Clinton and President Pastrana.
Blackhawks fly overhead while planes attempt to eradicate coca by aerial fumigation. Beehive Design Collective.
The legislation calls for the U.S. to offer extensive military aid to the Colombian military, which has illegal alliances with paramilitaries (autodefensas). The plan also pursues eradication of the coca plant.
Fiesta: A sign of resistance! Beehive
Design Collective.
To the U.S., Plan Colombia is part of the 'War on Drugs'. In Colombia, it was supposed to be a social development program which offered farmers economic alternatives to growing coca.