Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
Our New War in Colombia
By Alma Guillermoprieto
The Clinton administration is proposing an escalation in United States foreign aid to Colombia so large that it will predictably alter the course of domestic politics and internal violence in that country. Colombia is already the third-largest recipient of US foreign aid, after Israel and Egypt, having received $289 million in 1999. As the current aid bill now stands before Congress, the government of President Andrés Pastrana would receive $1.574 billion in direct economic assistance during the next three years. About one fifth of the funds ($274 million) would be spent on assistance in economic development and general improvements in the country's legal and human rights situation. The rest of the money would arrive in Colombia in the form of military training funds and equipment.
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