Noam Chomsky: Democracy & Media Part 2 – Plan Colombia and the CIA in Brazil (1994)

November 1, 1994 www.amazon.com Watch the full lecture: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The term Plan Colombia is most often used to refer to US legislation aimed at curbing drug smuggling and combating a left-wing insurgency by supporting different activities in Colombia. Plan Colombia can also refer to a wider aid initiative originally proposed by Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango, which included US military/counter-narcotics aid, but was not limited to it. The plan was conceived between 1998 and 1999 by the administration of President Andrés Pastrana with the goals of ending the Colombian armed conflict and creating an anti-cocaine strategy. Critics of the initiative also claimed that elements within the Colombian security forces, which received aid and training from the US, were involved in supporting or tolerating abuses by right-wing paramilitary forces against left-wing guerrilla organizations and their sympathizers. Another controversial element of the anti-narcotic strategy is aerial fumigation to eradicate coca. This activity has come under fire because it damages legal crops and has adverse health effects upon those exposed to the herbicides. Southern Cone (Spanish: Cono Sur, Portuguese: Cone Sul) is a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Although geographically this includes part of south-eastern Brazil, in terms of political geography the Southern cone has traditionally comprised …
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