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Article: ECUADOR SEEKS TO INVEST IN CRISIS-RIDDEN NORTHERN BORDER WITH COLOMBIA.
- Article from:
- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- August 10, 2007
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The government of Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has begun to implement its Plan Ecuador, an effort to make Ecuador's northern border with Colombia more secure and attend to the humanitarian crisis there. Correa conceives of the plan as a nonviolent countermeasure to the US-funded Plan Colombia, a multibillion-dollar aid package consisting mostly of military material and funding (see NotiSur, 2001-03-02 and 2004-04-02).
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