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 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?

 LINKS and WORKS CITED 

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

Links

• http://www.beehivecollective.org/PDF/narratives/PC_narrative-english.pdf
  The mission statement of The Beehive Design Collective is "to cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools." This link directs you to a narrative that tells the story of Plan Colombia by using the black and white cartoon on this website. (This pdf file may take some time to open.)
• http://www.plancolombia.org
  This site provides a brief but thorough explanation of Plan Colombia. The video Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure is sold here.
• http://www.colombiajournal.org
  An online journal that features several articles on Plan Colombia.
• http://www.soawne.org/Pccrops.html
  Pictures and a personal account from Linda Panetta's trip to Colombia as part of a delegation sponsored by the Colombia Support Network.
• http://ciponline.org/colombia
  The Center for International Policy's website offers a "comprehensive source of information and analysis about Colombia's conflict, peaceful efforts to end it, and the United States' increasing military involvement."
• http://www.state.gov/p/inl/narc/fs/c6030.htm
  The U.S. Department of State explains the Andean Counterdrug Initiative.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia
  For an online editable encyclopedia, Wikipedia offers a fairly comprehensive account of Plan Colombia.

• [1] Branford, Sue. “Colombia’s Killing Fields the First Bio-War of the 21st Century.” The Ecologist 36:2 (2006): 40-47.
• [2] Carpenter, Ted Galen. Bad Neighbor Policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• [3] Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate. Cocaine Production, Eradication, and the Environment: Policy, Impact, and Options. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990.
• [4] The Ecologist. “Drug War’s True Costs.” The Ecologist 32.5 (2002): 10.
• [5] Kratz, Vikki. “Lethal Dose.” Sierra 87.4 (2002): 14-16.
• [6] Livingstone, Grace. Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy, and War. New York: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
• [7] Morris, Kelly. “Plan Colombia: Parallels drawn with Vietnam War.” Lancet 357:9249 (2001): 52.
• [8] Richani, Nazih. “Multinational Corporations, Rentier Capitalism, and the War System in Colombia.” Latin American Politics and Society 47.3 (2005): 113-144.
• [9] Scott, Peter Dale. Drugs, Oil, and War. USA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003.
• [10] Sherret, Laurel. “Futility in Action: Coca Fumigation in Colombia.” Journal of Drug Issues 35:1 (2005): 151-168.
• [11] Stokes, Doug. America’s Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. London and New York: Zed Books, 2005.
• [12] Villalón, Carlos. “Cocaine Country.” National Geographic 206:1 (2004): 34-53.
• [13] May 6, 2006. <http://www.plancolombia.org>.
• [14] May 6, 2006. <http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov>.
• [15] May 6, 2006. <http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia223.htm>.
• [16] Human Rights Watch. Colombia: Armed Groups Send Children to War. May 9, 2006. < http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/02/22/colomb10202.htm>.
• [17] Human Rights Watch. “You’ll Learn Not To Cry”. May 9, 2006. <http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903/4.htm#_Toc05>.
• [18] Human Rights Watch. Colombia: More FARC Killings with Gas Cylinder Bombs. May 9, 2006. <http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/15/colomb10496.htm>.
• [19] Amnesty International. Colombia: Stop the Massacres. Stop the Military Aid. May 9, 2006. <http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR231102001?open&of=ENG-2M3>.