Two years have passed since the largest protests in recent history in Colombia and those who suffered physical and psychological injuries due to police violence continue to demand accountability for those responsible and their punishment. For these people, justice remains as elusive as their right to proper healthcare.
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The state in which the Plan Colombia left us
Soldier – Photo: Ernesto Che Mercado Jones. February 22th, 2016
More than 15 years of financial injections from the government of the United States into the Colombian state radically changed the landscape of our country, defined the course of the war and ensured the continuity of an authoritarianism which today ensures the interests of large transnational corporations and the US.
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The end of the Plan Colombia myth
By: Omar Vera* – April 16, 2009
The failure of the anti-drug strategy and non-military plans of intervention raises specific changes in the Obama administration with regards to Colombia.