Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
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| Description: | The National Security Archive's Colombia collection traces 50 years of U.S. policy toward its most important Andean ally throughout a period of sustained conflict, political corruption, and civil unrest. The approximately 2,000 documents from the State Department, Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, and other agencies focus on U.S. efforts during the Cold War, when insurgent groups first formed; during the drug war, when powerful narcotics trafficking organizations threatened the country's political institutions; during the rise of paramilitary violence in the 1990's, when right-wing militias terrorized rural Colombia; and during Plan Colombia and beyond, when human rights came up against a multi-billion dollar U.S. investment in Colombian security forces. |