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Despite the 1998 Leahy Amendment, which prohibits U.S. military aid to foreign soldiers guilty of human rights abuses, the current bill drastically increases the likelihood that U.S. military aid will aid the hemisphere's worst human rights abusers. Colombia, where much of the bill's aid will go, has suffered an average of 10 political killings per day since 1988, many of which have been committed by paramilitary death squads with close ties to the Colombian security forces...
...Colombia, drug production has increased an incredible 260 percent, even though it is the largest recipient of U.S. counter-narcotics aid. Its coca production has tripled, and its heroine production is forth-greatest worldwide, even though four years ago it produced no heroine. Coca eradication efforts destroy crops temporarily, but they cause widespread social discontent, and production spring up quickly elsewhere. The stated goals of the War on Drugs--to reduce drug production and trafficking into the U.S--have proven elusive, despite all the money weive thrown at them...
...will never escape the internal politics and warfare that continue to plague recipient countries. Despite guarantees that equipment and training be used to fight drugs, in reality policymakers have no way of knowing that military training and equipment are not used for counter-insurgency against guerrilla forces. In Colombia, where the War on Drugs and the government's counter-insurgency efforts are most intertwined, the bill earmarks $168 million for helicopters and other aircraft, despite repeated reports of clashes between Colombian air forces and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) guerrillas...
LONDON: It's a game of numbers. As many as 30,000 British soccer fans will arrive in the French town of Lens Friday for England's match against Colombia -- 10,000 of them without tickets. Meanwhile, 640 known German hooligans are at large in France, many remaining in Lens, where they battered a French policeman into a coma Sunday. If this convergence of soccer's worst louts seems coincidental, it ain't: A leaked French intelligence service memo, published Wednesday in Le Monde, says the Germans have chosen the spot "to battle for the title of 'hardest hooligans...
...Reno and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin stood side by side in Washington Monday to announce the culmination of a three-year sting operation targeting Mexican bankers who laundered drug money for the Cali cartel of Colombia and the Juarez cartel of Mexico. The booty: $35 million seized -- with another $122 million to be confiscated from U.S. and foreign bank accounts, and more than 180 expected arrests. And there were drugs, too: Two tons of cocaine and four tons of marijuana...