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Colombian Drug War

Meanwhile, the paramilitaries that are financed by private landowners and drug traffickers are determined to wipe out the FARC at any cost. Until the 1980's the FARC had fewer than 1,000 guerrilla gunmen, but over the past decade, it has grown to over 15,000 well-equipped guerrillas. The biggest expanse of coca fields also concentrates the largest amount of FARC guerrillas. Located within a regional triangle in southern Colombia the FARC operates many clandestine laboratories and provide security to the drug crops. It has been reported that the FARC had earned close to one billion dollars from drug trafficking in 1997. The FARC used their large market of cocaine to trade for guns and cash with crime organizations in such countries as Chechnya, Russia, and the Ukraine. FARC leaders say their goal is to establish political control over as much of Colombia as they can capture in order to install a Marxist Socialist regime. .
             Colombian President Andres Pastrana was elected in 1998 and forced to come up with a plan to eradicate the drug trade and make peace with the rebel movement. President Clinton has supported Pastrana's Plan Colombia' with $289 million dollars aid in 1998, up from $100 million dollars in 1997. The plan devised by Pastrana was to put an end to civil war, repair the economy, and terminate the drug trade. But a negotiation must be settled with the Marxist rebels who are now involved in drug trafficking. As part of the attempt to get a peace pact signed Pastrana offered the rebels control over a large area of Colombia and funding to aid the large-scale agriculture development programs to substitute food crops for the coca plant. .
             If it already isn't hard enough to deal with the rebels Pastrana must find a way to disassemble the paramilitary gunmen as well. These violent organizations do not share the same concept of peace that Pastrana bodes. The paramilitarists consider it dangerous to the nation and its institution that peace be agreed upon with the Marxist rebels.


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1. Global War on Drugs Fails to Produce Results

... to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won," the report said (BBC News). The report also noted, "There are ... a debate. When you have forty years of policy that is not bringing results, you have to ask if it's time to change it," said Colombian President Cesar Gaviria. He said he saw signs of a shift in public opinion last year after California residents voted on a ballot measure that would ... the U.S. evolv...

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2. Civil War and Columbia

... ? by Washington and, consequently, have become targets in the drug war.? In the meantime, the Colombian Armed Forces have been mostly concentrating on fighting the civil war, not the drug war. Because of the latest civil focus of the Colombian military, the narco-traffickers and their paramilitary factions have fought along side the Colombian army in its war against the guerillas. So it has come as no surprise ... that the Colombian army has not engaged the drug traffickers and paramilitaries in any significant battles recently. The link between the drug war and civil war in Colombia has...

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3. Colombian Transculturation:

... to plague America with misery n the name of liberty ---Simon Bolívar The stigma of Paisas--natives of Medellín and its surroundings--being involved in drug trafficking has been ongoing since their victory of the Colombian-Cuban drug war in Miami during the seventies. In the streets of Colombia the story is different. Millions of citizens are haunted by memories of homicide, kidnapping and ... and narcotraficantes. The responsibility for the damages bears on the shoulders of both countries. The bloodshed and violence in the streets of Medellín caused by the internal drug war is ...

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4. The War On Drugs

... extradition issue. In 1985, anti-Government Guerillas, mainly composed of the drug dealers, attack the Colombian Supreme Court. The extradition requests were destroyed, and eleven Supreme Court Justices were killed. In total, over 200 people lost their lives. At this point, the drug lords are using terrorism to force the Colombian government to back off the extradition issue. During the 1980s, it ... appeared that Central America was awash in drugs, and drug money. The violence continues today, through drug related gang violence, to botched drug raids. Drug dealers often carry weapons, s...

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6. America and the Mexican Drug War

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7. colombia's civil war

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8. War on Drugs

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