It’s Time to Rethink U.S.-Colombia Relations
The old Plan Colombia formula no longer works. Policymakers should embrace a more holistic approach, writes a former U.S. diplomat.
Colombia has come a long way since the late nineties. When President Andrés Pastrana traveled to Washington in 1999 to strike a partnership with the U.S., the country was close to becoming a failed state, racked by civil war and drug cartels. Funding for the resulting agreement, Plan Colombia, began in 2000, and brought change in the form of improved security and new economic opportunity. What a difference it has made. This year marks the eighth anniversary of 2016 Colombia’s peace accords with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest insurgent group....
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