Colombian Army organization
also: Colombian Armed Forces, Armed Forces, Colombian military, Army 2nd Mobile Brigade, Colombian police and Army troops, the army, Colombia army
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Claims (11)
Military Professional Resources Inc. trained
Colombian Army documented
“Primarily, this means engaging with the guerrillas in direct combat and protecting cocaine distribution routes that have been undermined by the FARC's presence. MPRI has worked with the Colombian Armed Forces and National Police in areas of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 45:27
USAID trained
Colombian Army host_asserted
“In the 1970s, the CIA offered further training to Colombian and other Latin American police officers at its so-called bomb school in Texas. And guess who else all went there? All the European Gladio operators. Then AID, or what we refer to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 36:51
Occidental Petroleum funded
Colombian Army documented
“have been part of the state-coordinated campaign. In June of 2001, a Colombian court heard how a U.S. security firm working for Occidental Petroleum had played a fatal role in an army raid against FARC, directing helicopter gunships that mi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 39:48
Ralph Yarborough funded
Colombian Army host_asserted
“were first organized in 1964, basically as a repercussion of the crackdown on the people who just wanted their land back. So this Yarborough guy is the one that kind of goes in and goes, yeah, just continue to do what we've been doing. And …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 35:30
Colombian Army carried_out_attack
FARC host_asserted
“So let's see. When Yarborough visited the Colombian army, there was a comprehensive counterinsurgency plan implemented. And in response, there was a reinforcement of class repression rather than any assistance. The FARC and the ELN.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 34:58
Colombian Army supplied_arms_to
FARC book_quoted
“In the Army's grounding document, Order 200-0591, some of these units continued to act as paramilitary. They were armed either with Israeli guns or U.S. equipment by the Colombian Army, despite them not being allowed to do that. In a new re…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 43:17
Colombian Army carried_out_attack
FARC host_asserted
“subchapter is called Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish. It was part of the PSYOPs war against the FARC insurgency. The Colombian military had adopted a method used in America's war in Vietnam, which became known as draining the sea to kill …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 1:26
Colombian Army carried_out_attack
Mira Flores documented
“So in one cable that was later declassified in 1996, this is what it said. The aim of the operation is to take over Mira Flores, effectively shutting down coca production in that area. Large numbers of residents have been displaced by relen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 44:34
DynCorp trained
Colombian Army documented
“Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, had claimed that guerrilla fired at the private contractors involved in relocation missions. His comments to the press were made after admitting that the private U.S. citizens had been involved…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 36:42
Colombian Army founded
Frente Calima host_asserted
“and Vale del Canta Department was founded with the participation of active, retired, and reserve military officers attached to the military's 3rd Brigade, along with paramilitaries from the self-defense groups in two other locations, which …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 35:17
Colombian Army trained
FARC host_asserted
“The thinking and nomenclature in these field manuals were translated and cited in the Colombian Army's Counter-Guerrilla Manual. It defined the self-defense groups as an organization of military nature made up of select civilian personnel f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 36:23
Mentions (38)
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aircraft that can detect these submarines. We're seeing that played out today. Colombia has been experiencing a civil war for more than half a century. What was begun as a mission of the Colombian army backed by the United States to attack …
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have initiated investigations into the composition of paramilitary groups and the source of their financial support. Through such investigations, evidence has emerged that many paramilitary death squads are financed by landowners, industria…
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You know, the ones we're funding with military aid, those same guys. Armed Forces units, which have persistently been implicated in paramilitary death squad activities, include the intelligence unit of the National Police, the Army's Intell…
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the leaders of the AUC. The Castanos were from an upper-middle-class land-owning family, the narco-elite. Offered their services, particularly in the area of intelligence, to the military battalion, Bombona, that operated in Segovia. Anothe…
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subchapter is called Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish. It was part of the PSYOPs war against the FARC insurgency. The Colombian military had adopted a method used in America's war in Vietnam, which became known as draining the sea to kill …
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and more than 20 per day in 2002. Doubled. The commission was set up in the early 1990s following the elimination of the EPL, which aimed to identify perpetrators of violence while ignoring state officials committing it. When unable to atta…
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any civilians that they thought were sympathizers. It didn't matter, just like in Vietnam, whether they were or not. You just had to be accused of it. Human rights groups contended that the AUC and Colombian armed forces were responsible fo…
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FARC supporters, people that they thought were their supporters, from General Van Martinez of the Colombian Army in the 1990s. Castano worked closely with another Colombian general, Ivan Ramirez Quintero, who had been a key intelligence sou…
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Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people that don't support us 100% of the time. A…
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The Colombian army of the Colombian army, sorry, had been involved in the 1978-79 bombing campaign that took place. The Colombian prosecutor general issued a scathing report regarding the conduct of the civil war under Matoya's command. The…
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The AUC may not be a proxy army of the United States, but it functions as a vanguard force of the counterinsurgency strategy in the Colombian countryside. Yeah, they may not be a proxy. They're just trained and funded by us. But how would t…
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The state had no interest in pursuing paramilitary groups or even the drug traffickers because they were supporting them. While at the same time, the AUC alongside the Army were unsuccessful in reining in their paramilitary groups that they…
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in the eastern department of Casanare in August of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of 21 paramilitary members. The Colombian army used aircraft and helicopters, killing another 13 and then capturing 32. Following the selective extradition …
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In 2010, the UN estimated that up to 3.7 million people had been displaced by that point, the largest number of dislocated people in the world. In Mira Flores, a town in southeastern area, a joint Colombian military and police so-called cou…
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provoked mass demonstrations, according to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, were sustained by funds from coca production. Embassy officials saw these kinds of operations as proof that, in cases where peasants and FARC threatened mission success,…
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So in one cable that was later declassified in 1996, this is what it said. The aim of the operation is to take over Mira Flores, effectively shutting down coca production in that area. Large numbers of residents have been displaced by relen…
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Colombian police and Army troops from the 2nd Mobile Brigade have begun deploying in that area to prevent the area from being overrun, yet their aim was to destroy the town. The cable goes on to note that the presence of the Army troops alo…
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Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, had claimed that guerrilla fired at the private contractors involved in relocation missions. His comments to the press were made after admitting that the private U.S. citizens had been involved…
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Primarily, this means engaging with the guerrillas in direct combat and protecting cocaine distribution routes that have been undermined by the FARC's presence. MPRI has worked with the Colombian Armed Forces and National Police in areas of…
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In areas targeted for aerial fumigation, paramilitary working with the Colombian Army arrive in helicopter gunships to clear the ground so that the planes, often piloted by Americans, are not shot down, but only in the FARC area. Day-to-day…
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A-R-I-N-C. According to the U.S. State Department officials, four were under contracts with the aerial division of the State Department. Lesser known firms such as Rendon Group provided public relations support for the Colombian Army. SAIC …
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or Laos in the 1960s. Our principal proxy in 2001 and 2002 during the Afghan war was a dominant element in regional drug traffic. In Colombia also, we were fighting a war supposedly on drugs, but in fact financed by drugs. There was a drug …
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since 2001 to expand the U.S. role beyond counter narcotics, including a program to underwrite Colombian Army security in exchange for putting in oil pipelines. So we buy you an army so you can kill your own people because that's what they …
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To further such policies on the national level could well drag Colombia deeper into a conflict that had already claimed over 30,000 lives. Efforts to reform the Colombian army's record had meager results because they didn't ever try. We now…
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in El Salvador. Representative Benjamin Gilman of New York, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, was formerly one of the plan's strongest advocates. Along with Messing, he withdrew his support saying the U.S. aid should …
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who worked hand in hand with the Colombian military and who every year accounted for 70, 80 percent of the non-combat killings in the country. A recent Colombian government investigation collected compelling evidence through the years of 19…
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So let's see. When Yarborough visited the Colombian army, there was a comprehensive counterinsurgency plan implemented. And in response, there was a reinforcement of class repression rather than any assistance. The FARC and the ELN.…
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The thinking and nomenclature in these field manuals were translated and cited in the Colombian Army's Counter-Guerrilla Manual. It defined the self-defense groups as an organization of military nature made up of select civilian personnel f…
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have been part of the state-coordinated campaign. In June of 2001, a Colombian court heard how a U.S. security firm working for Occidental Petroleum had played a fatal role in an army raid against FARC, directing helicopter gunships that mi…
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ignored the early U.S. input into paramilitary organizations, and date the Army-Paramilitary Alliance from 1981. This was the year in which the country's major drug traffickers collaborating with the Colombian Army established a training sc…
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Although the stated purpose of the network was to kidnap, to combat kidnapping, they were the ones actually doing the kidnapping. This is exactly what they do. It's exactly the opposite every day. Most notably, it enabled the army to frustr…
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a peace negotiation with the FARCs, and they turned around and murdered over 700 FARC members as a result of that. It was almost like it was a ploy in order to get them out in the open. There was no sign that Reagan administration, which ex…
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People operated with impunity until 1989 when their activities were outlawed. Human Rights Watch wrote in a report that documented how in 1991, the U.S. military and CIA personnel collaborated with the Colombian Army to institute a new syst…
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In the Army's grounding document, Order 200-0591, some of these units continued to act as paramilitary. They were armed either with Israeli guns or U.S. equipment by the Colombian Army, despite them not being allowed to do that. In a new re…
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the involvement of senior army commanders in the planning and execution of paramilitary massacres. The evidence linked half of the Colombians' 18 brigade-level army to paramilitary activities. It was pervasive everywhere. The report also de…
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that Congress will support. Aid to the Colombian army cut off by Congress in 1994 because of human rights violations has now been restored under this thing called Plan Colombia. American policies in Colombia, despite their stated objectives…
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of schooling and administration and having stubbornly followed mistaken civilian advice. Thus, public opposition reached a point where his military colleagues had to unseat him. In other words, he wasn't playing along. He had to go. Colombi…
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conscious of the Pentagon's support, has behaved as an autonomous authority. Until recently, it was permitted by law to try in its own courts and almost always exonerated officers and troops accused of human rights crimes. In May 2001, the …