Word: andreses
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In the House, 186 legislators voted against the legislation. Some cited concern over the human rights record of the Colombian military, which has collaborated extensively and intimately with paramilitary death squads; others expressed doubts over becoming involved in an open-ended counterinsurgency campaign. Some representatives even questioned whether the war...
The Administration had cooled relations considerably with Colombia's previous President, Ernesto Samper, accused of taking $6 million in campaign contributions from narcotraffickers. But current President Andres Pastrana, who was elected in 1998, is considered a hero in Washington. Senior State Department aides began working with him last year to...
Drugs and the war against them have a habit of corrupting Latin America's politics - and that could put Washington right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the...