Plan Colombia operation
also: Plan America, plain Colombia, Clinton's plan, Columbia, playing Columbia, Plan Columbia, Adrian Initiative, Plan Columbia II, planned Colombia, Plain Columbia, Clan Colombia, Planned Columbia
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Colombiacountry · 32United Statescountry · 18FARCorganization · 10Bill Clintonperson · 9George H.W. Bushperson · 6DynCorporganization · 5U.S. State Departmentorganization · 4Alvaro Uribeperson · 3Andrés Pastranaperson · 3European Unionorganization · 3Mexicocountry · 2Bosniacountry · 2Robert Whiteperson · 2Military Professional Resources Inc.organization · 2Columbiaplace · 2Sarkis Soghanalianperson · 1Lockheedorganization · 1Hillary Clintonperson · 1Golden Triangleplace · 1El Salvadorcountry · 1Republican Partyorganization · 1Perucountry · 1Kosovocountry · 1Barack Obamaperson · 1
Claims (20)
George H.W. Bush funded
Plan Colombia documented
“For the increase, which is exactly what happened, in the drug trafficking, we have to have a boogeyman. Under the legal banner and drug policies of the Colombian plan, Clinton militarized the nation and financed the counterinsurgency with t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 8:09
Jan Schakowsky investigated
Plan Colombia documented
“spent six days in Colombia investigating a $1.3 billion U.S. operation called Plan Colombia. We've talked about this before. This was supposed to be a counter-narcotics program focusing on killing drug crops. But because a large plan of thi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 37:34
Alvaro Uribe founded
Plan Colombia documented
“not the 580 tons announced by the U.S. State Department and DEA. So, nearly double, and our State Department lied to us. Big shocker. In 2004, President Uribe and the Bush administration negotiated an extension to Plan Columbia, named Plan …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 9:36
Bill Clinton funded
Plan Colombia documented
“about Plan Colombia. So that's where we're headed. In 2000, President Bill Clinton authorized Plan Colombia. It was a $1.3 billion US aid package for the quote-unquote war on drugs, which included military assistance, including helicopters,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 2:41
Andrés Pastrana founded
Plan Colombia documented
“that U.S. Americans paid the Colombian government to grow their narco state. So even the European Union contributed $2.2 billion, so about $10 billion total. The original version of Plan Colombia was initiated by the then-president Pastrana…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 4:09
Plan Colombia financed_via
United States documented
“about Plan Colombia. So that's where we're headed. In 2000, President Bill Clinton authorized Plan Colombia. It was a $1.3 billion US aid package for the quote-unquote war on drugs, which included military assistance, including helicopters,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 2:41
United States funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“were given up to U.S. authorities and 28 family members of the Cali cartel were given immunity from prosecution because they're not going to get rid of their network. Alvaro Uribe relied heavily on the new version of the narco-military netw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 52:28
European Union funded
Plan Colombia documented
“that U.S. Americans paid the Colombian government to grow their narco state. So even the European Union contributed $2.2 billion, so about $10 billion total. The original version of Plan Colombia was initiated by the then-president Pastrana…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 4:09
Robert White exposed
Plan Colombia book_quoted
“White stated, quote, if you feel the original Plan Columbia, not the one that was written in Washington, but the original Plan Columbia, there's no mention of military drives against the FARC rebels. Quite the contrary. President Pastrana s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 7:13
United States funded
Plan Colombia documented
“by the American ambassador to Colombia, Miles Frejet. But after planned Colombia in 2000, the Pentagon was fully engaged in the quote-unquote struggle against the FARC, a struggle that Congress would support. Aid to the Colombian army, cut …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 22:44
United States funded
Plan Colombia documented
“Three years later, and again in 2000, Philip Morris was accused of smuggling Marlboro cigarettes into Columbia that had been purchased with black market pesos. So even American corporations are getting in on this. Another company involved i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 13:18
DynCorp member_of
Plan Colombia documented
“Information about cargo carried by these airlines is difficult to retrieve, but their operations were immensely profitable as components of the U.S. outsourced special operation teams in the war on drugs and terror. Two military contractors…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 34:53
DynCorp carried_out_attack
Plan Colombia documented
“spent six days in Colombia investigating a $1.3 billion U.S. operation called Plan Colombia. We've talked about this before. This was supposed to be a counter-narcotics program focusing on killing drug crops. But because a large plan of thi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 37:34
Bill Clinton funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“DynCorp paramilitary operations in Latin America received a significant boost in 1999 with the launch of Plan Colombia. It was initiated by Bill Clinton. Plan Colombia was a U.S.-backed foreign aid military and diplomatic mission that was t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 14:11
United States funded
Plan Colombia book_quoted
“His commitment to the Colombian peace process and extrication from the conflict that prevailed when he was elected. In theory, the U.S. government is committed to precisely those same objectives. Yeah, not so much. Well, not the ones that a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 17:45
United States funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 41:47
DynCorp funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 41:47
Military Professional Resources Inc. funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 41:47
George H.W. Bush proposed_funding_for
Plan Colombia documented
“regional initiative designed to bolster economic growth and prosperity. To this end, President Bush proposed giving $882 million for a democratic institution building, of which half would be allocated to Colombia. In other words, a bribe. I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 18:34
Human Rights Watch funded
Plan Colombia host_asserted
“For the increase, which is exactly what happened, in the drug trafficking, we have to have a boogeyman. Under the legal banner and drug policies of the Colombian plan, Clinton militarized the nation and financed the counterinsurgency with t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 8:09
Mentions (54)
▶ 13:18
Three years later, and again in 2000, Philip Morris was accused of smuggling Marlboro cigarettes into Columbia that had been purchased with black market pesos. So even American corporations are getting in on this. Another company involved i…
▶ 2:07
um renee up here i got you this speaker for some for some reason it's not letting me do it i don't know why okay i just sorry i'm i brought you up as a speaker and then i'll um throw a host and see if it works that time cool okay um so anyw…
▶ 2:41
about Plan Colombia. So that's where we're headed. In 2000, President Bill Clinton authorized Plan Colombia. It was a $1.3 billion US aid package for the quote-unquote war on drugs, which included military assistance, including helicopters,…
▶ 4:09
that U.S. Americans paid the Colombian government to grow their narco state. So even the European Union contributed $2.2 billion, so about $10 billion total. The original version of Plan Colombia was initiated by the then-president Pastrana…
▶ 5:40
money ever made it to the local peasants. Pastrana's Plan Colombia did not focus on drug trafficking, military aid, or fumigation, but instead advocated the manual eradication of drug crops. Somehow that never happened, though, despite havi…
▶ 6:10
that specifically served to convene important U.S. aid, as well as that of other countries and international organizations, by adequately addressing the quote-unquote concerns, which were principally focused on the FARC insurgency. Again, t…
▶ 6:41
They were writing it for us. The Clinton version of the plan Colombia focused on drug trafficking and the strengthening of the Colombian military. And it wasn't anti-trafficking. It was just drug trafficking and growing the military in orde…
▶ 7:13
White stated, quote, if you feel the original Plan Columbia, not the one that was written in Washington, but the original Plan Columbia, there's no mention of military drives against the FARC rebels. Quite the contrary. President Pastrana s…
▶ 8:09
For the increase, which is exactly what happened, in the drug trafficking, we have to have a boogeyman. Under the legal banner and drug policies of the Colombian plan, Clinton militarized the nation and financed the counterinsurgency with t…
▶ 9:36
not the 580 tons announced by the U.S. State Department and DEA. So, nearly double, and our State Department lied to us. Big shocker. In 2004, President Uribe and the Bush administration negotiated an extension to Plan Columbia, named Plan …
▶ 10:07
During the negotiations, President Uribe extolled the advances achieved on the war on drugs and the war on terror and asserted that the U.S. Capitol injected into Colombia had succeeded in making them a safer country, safer for the elite, a…
▶ 10:36
by successive White House administrations that aim to assist the Colombian state to end the cocaine trade. But somehow it just keeps growing. Since 2000, U.S. military aid and training to Colombia has totaled over $6.8 billion. And that's c…
▶ 11:04
Clinton's plan Colombia by international advocates, which resulted in limiting the number of U.S. troops and privately contracted forces, you know, those private military companies, to 800, 400 U.S. personnel and 400 contracted personnel. D…
▶ 15:19
It was described in Fortune magazine in 1988 that the cocaine industry was probably the fastest growing and unquestionably the most profitable industry in the world. As Plan Colombia targeted the FARC, the narco elite concentrated within th…
▶ 22:36
Thus becomes a necessary function of U.S. imperialism. Again, you have to create the boogeyman in order to be able to justify sending the arms. So you're always going to have a boogeyman, even if it's not legitimate. And I'm not saying the …
▶ 24:40
to penetrate Colombia for cocaine exports, and they used the Clintons playing Colombia to do so. It promoted the war on the FARC while it militarily secured coca production facilities for the narco elite. Before the lead up to the global fi…
▶ 22:44
by the American ambassador to Colombia, Miles Frejet. But after planned Colombia in 2000, the Pentagon was fully engaged in the quote-unquote struggle against the FARC, a struggle that Congress would support. Aid to the Colombian army, cut …
▶ 29:21
and visibly contributed to the increase in the cartel violence. The true purpose of most of these campaigns, like Plan Colombia, has not been to the hopeless ideal of eradication of drugs. It has been to alter the market share to target spe…
▶ 48:55
Regionalization is important to U.S. imperialist goals that were made possible through the supply-side programs of Plan Colombia. Build it and they will come. The days when the vast majority of cocaine was bound for the U.S. are long gone, …
▶ 52:28
were given up to U.S. authorities and 28 family members of the Cali cartel were given immunity from prosecution because they're not going to get rid of their network. Alvaro Uribe relied heavily on the new version of the narco-military netw…
▶ 1:02:01
at least acknowledge what it is and acknowledge that our government's lying to us. So if they can target Escobar as the bad guy, it allows them to create things like playing Columbia, to marshal billions of dollars of our money to attack Es…
▶ 24:19
American drug law enforcement defines this function as fumigation. According to a declassified CIA document, the aerial fumigation strategy was known to U.S. policymakers as early as 2000, when the first phase of Plain Columbia was put in e…
▶ 24:48
Combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian economy, and strengthen democracy with mostly military assistance. President George Bush, chief supporter of Clan Colombia, was the Colombian president, and the Colombian president, Uribe,…
▶ 20:44
At the end of the Cold War, the use of U.S. private defense contractors began to replace much of the covert work done by the CIA. The transition was underway when private defense corporations were formed and contractors were deployed to Col…
▶ 21:14
Uribi presidencies, the majority of the profits went to American firms under the sponsorship of Plan Colombia. Lobbyists from big oil, arms manufacturing, and defense companies in the U.S. made $6 million in campaign contributions to Congre…
▶ 21:43
went to the Colombian government to do any fighting against the enemy FARC. The rest flowed to corporate America. This is exactly what happened with Ukraine over and over again. The financially linked international capital organizes cocaine…
▶ 23:02
discussions, research, and media commentary relating to the war on drugs now centered on Mexico, not on Colombia. In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that Mexico and Central America was facing an insurgency that required the …
▶ 23:56
Colombia has increasingly become a privatized war that goes well beyond the context of plain Colombia. Just as George W. Bush had started in 2001, Obama had continued the fight against quote-unquote narco-terrorism by providing $600 million…
▶ 24:49
The expansionist role of American military force has posed a new security dilemma for U.S. imperialism that can only be achieved through the use of narco-colonialism applied through Cold War strategies from the Golden Triangle to the Crysta…
▶ 25:19
Despite the lack of studies on the changing security situation, it is not clear whether the increase in the number of private military companies in South America has been a direct result of Plan Colombia. In a recent press conference held i…
▶ 34:53
Information about cargo carried by these airlines is difficult to retrieve, but their operations were immensely profitable as components of the U.S. outsourced special operation teams in the war on drugs and terror. Two military contractors…
▶ 44:02
Raul Salinas, the brother of the former Mexican president, Carlos Salinas, at the time the DynCorp contract in 1998 with the U.S. State Department, Treasury and Commerce Departments, the company received a contract with the CIA and NASA. Wh…
▶ 58:55
theaters of war, Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn't make immediate use of them, just relocated what they already had there. Plan Colombia, in practice, is alive and well and has no interest in eradicating cocaine, in case you hadn't noticed.…
▶ 1:40:31
Two of my books, as far as the DEA. Most of the Colombians I've talked to feel that Plan Colombia, which I worked the target during the Plan Colombia time. I have a former brother-in-law who I constantly had to report on my SF-86, who is a …
▶ 8:10
Clinton's $1.3 billion aid program in 2000 in support of a thing called Plan Colombia. Now, I've talked about that before. This is basically just a guise in order to use Operation Gladio tactics in Colombia. Number four, George W. Bush meas…
▶ 16:41
administrations with the ability to go in and make corrupt deals. The American press has called the current U.S. aid program Plan Colombia. This is a misnomer. It's a wolf in sheep's clothing. How apropos. Plan Colombia was originally a whi…
▶ 17:06
After he took office in 1998 to reduce the social turmoil in his country, it proposed an ambitious $7.5 billion program with a mix of economic, social, and military components. This was intended not just to achieve a reduction in the Colomb…
▶ 17:35
Clinton, the U.S. plan, Colombia was, like so many other U.S. aid programs, 90% military. Originally, it had been meant as both an economic aid and to be much broader than just the U.S. But when the U.S. decided to take a strictly military …
▶ 18:05
This was after a coalition of 37 Colombian human rights and other groups signed a statement rejecting the plan's funds for development and appealed to Europe to come back to the table. In response to these criticisms, the Bush administratio…
▶ 20:55
The petroleum industry, although not as vocal, clearly hopes to see an end to the disruption of their pipelines. Most importantly, the Pentagon is using Plan Colombia to steer contracts and profits to outsource parts of its infrastructure t…
▶ 28:35
was due to the paramilitary when the FARC had only been accredited with less than 2%. Nevertheless, Plan Colombia's eradication program is focused primarily on only the area of the FARC because it's the only drug that they don't control. Ag…
▶ 17:45
His commitment to the Colombian peace process and extrication from the conflict that prevailed when he was elected. In theory, the U.S. government is committed to precisely those same objectives. Yeah, not so much. Well, not the ones that a…
▶ 26:14
and sprayed this shit all over, ruining their food supply, which they didn't care if people starved to death. This is just a repetitive thing that happens over and over and over again. If this nightmare program is to be stopped, the change …
▶ 26:44
The opinions offered in news stories on Plan Colombia continue to range from mild criticism to moral outrage. The plan currently seems to have no vocal defenders outside of Washington's bureaucracy. Should the critics take heart from this c…
▶ 31:01
industry donations and political candidates, the partnership has lobbied hard for an increased aid. Lawrence Merriage, M-E-R-I-A-G-E, Occidental's public affairs vice president, not only pushed for Plan Colombia last year, but urged a House…
▶ 34:23
Another similarity is the apparent management of the U.S. news reporting out of Colombia. Until September 1998, it was normal in North America press to refer to Colombia as a narco-democracy. My LexisNexis index did 69 uses of the term betw…
▶ 39:53
Plan Colombia has played a similar role in restructuring Southern Air Transport, which declared bankruptcy in September 1998. Southern Air Transport had utilized considerable profits from the Persian Gulf War in 1990, just eight years befor…
▶ 41:47
Plan Colombia had been a similar bonanza for the Pentagon's outsourcing training teams with firms like DynCorp and MPRI. Both corporations have a history of airlift and training contracts for the U.S. from Korea to Croatia, Bosnia, and Koso…
▶ 1:05:41
Whatever the Peruvians did with them after I sold them to them is on them. Sarkis's allegations of an elaborate double-cross raised serious questions about U.S. agencies' close ties to spy chiefs. To make matters worse, the CIA was involved…
▶ 14:11
DynCorp paramilitary operations in Latin America received a significant boost in 1999 with the launch of Plan Colombia. It was initiated by Bill Clinton. Plan Colombia was a U.S.-backed foreign aid military and diplomatic mission that was t…
▶ 15:08
South Com's military and the U.S. aid and every other program that they could to fund the attack on the actual rebels, the good people. DynCorp was tapped to fill the void. It is even possible Plan Colombia was intended to formalize DynCorp…
▶ 25:15
This is no doubt due to the fact that it was a large, let's see, while DynCorp had at times displayed Republican leanings, there is no question that they had made many inroads in Democrats' area as well. Planned Columbia and peacekeeping ef…
▶ 37:34
spent six days in Colombia investigating a $1.3 billion U.S. operation called Plan Colombia. We've talked about this before. This was supposed to be a counter-narcotics program focusing on killing drug crops. But because a large plan of thi…
▶ 38:03
though paid for by the American taxpayers. That was what most concerned Stokowski and McGovern. Estimates at the time was that there were 200 U.S. military personnel in Columbia, mostly working as trainers, and 170 American contractors, man…