The Christian Science Monitor has produced a massive three part report, Rethinking Plan Colombia, on the status of Plan Colombia, one of America’s forgotten wars that still lingers on. Endlessly killing and sucking billions of dollars down a black hole while costing Colombia and America the lives of our best and most dedicated citizens who become counter-narcotics agents only to be ripped from life violently.
The Monitor enumerates all of the minutia of hectares of coca sprayed. And the billions spent on helicopters, mercenaries and in creating the second largest U.S. embassy in the world. All seemingly, to no avail in reducing either the supply or the demand.
The Monitor never once touches on the economic heart of the issue. Nor do they look at all at the totality of the causes and effects of the drug war policy. A policy that Plan Colombia is only one very small part of.
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