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Transcript: COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND COLOMBIA ON COUNTER-DRUG PROGRAMS(CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA)
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- August 30, 2000
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The increased U.S. assistance for Colombia provided in the Emergency
Supplemental Act, as enacted in the Military Construction Appropriations
Act of 2001, includes substantial funding for counter-drug programs.
The
major counter-drug components of this initiative are:
$442 million for support to counter-drug operations in the coca-
growing regions of southern Colombia, to include the training and
equipping
of three special counter-narcotics battalions of the Colombian Army
that
will provide security for law enforcement operations by the Colombian
National
Police;
$466 million for enhancement of the capability to interdict shipments
of illicit drugs from the ...