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Article: PLAN COLOMBIA : WRONG ISSUE, WRONG ENEMY, WRONG COUNTRY.(United States involvement in Colombia)(Statistical Data Included)
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- The Nation
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- March 19, 2001
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Bogota
As the United States becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in Colombia, individual Americans here, conscious of the threat of kidnapping or guerrilla attack, are rarely seen in public. Equally difficult to find is any concrete effect of the $2.2 million-a-day US aid program. With the country now into the third year of a crushing recession, factories remain shuttered while the unemployed sell tangerines, shoelaces, cookies and bootleg CDs on the clogged streets. Farmland is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few rural barons, causing a million recently dispossessed campesinos to crowd into Bogota's satellite slums. The country's infrastructure--its ...