Plan Colombia: Fight Against Drug Trafficking

Plan Colombia: Fight against drug trafficking

The Plan Colombia was a strategic alliance to fight drug trafficking seeking to strengthen institutionality, recover security and consolidate the social development of Colombia, signed in 2000 among the governments of Colombia, at the head of then President Andres Pastrana Arango, and theUnited States government, during the Bill Clinton administration;To carry out the Plan Colombia, a large investment was required by the United States government, which approaches 10 billion dollars, the Colombian government is said that the investment figure is close to 131 billionDollars.

We can say that the two great columns of Plan Colombia was the fight against drug trafficking and socioeconomic development of the country.

Faced with the anti -narcotics struggle, we can say that Plan Colombia was a military success, being a reengineering of the armed forces with military advisors of the United States, who increased the mobility of the military and allowed the Colombian State to take the initiative against the warAgainst guerrillas, this anti -narcotics scheme is purely military, which prevents looking at another possible alternative, where the agreement with the communities prevails over force;Rather, the use of this, in search of demonstrating superiority against drug traffickers and insurgents, generated a loss of independence in the response to the conflict, ignoring the character of non -combatants of the civilians involved, thus violating the fundamental rights of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds ofColombians.

On the other hand, the economic pillar sought to cut public spending, expand the VAT base, put tax on financial operations, generate controls to evasion, and privatize state companies, to increase their productivity and thus finance the fiscal deficit;However, all these measures do not leave great social development in Colombia, since despite the good intentions of the American government in generating social progress through the Colombia Plan, there is no doubt that in its participation and interference theGovernment of the United States obtains many benefits, such as oil, coal, gold and other minerals from the Colombian subso. However, with the realization of the plan, external indebtedness increased, and they privatized it to make welfare, pretending to explain that today’s sacrifices will be the growth and the best distribution of tomorrow’s income.

With this we can infer that the Plan Colombia became a little more of the same, more North America, more militarization, more human rights violations, more damage to the environment through the eradication of illicit crops, more internal conflict in the search in the searchof peace and prosperity, but without a doubt one of the greatest sequelae is the increase in the country’s external debt.