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Article: Quagmire in Colombia.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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As U.S. involvement in Colombia escalates, the situation looks more and more like Vietnam or El Salvador: American participation in a civil war begins unofficially, only to snowball as more and more money and military advisers pour into the region.
Jesuit priest and Colombian human rights advocate Father Gabriel Izquierdo visited the United States recently to plead with Americans to consider the effects of U.S. military aid in Colombia. "We are afraid that, with the increasing military deployments from the United States, it would be very easy to escalate the conflict," he warns.
Father Izquierdo is part of a Jesuit think tank that tracks political ...