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...these millionaire Marxists view Plan Colombia - President Clinton's $1.3 billion aid package that includes 60 military helicopters, ostensibly to help the government fight narco traffickers...
...money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father, a legislator who helped draft the extradition treaty, was assassinated by narco-traffickers...
...While the guerrillas have killed thousands of security force personnel and civilians over the past decade, they've been matched - and often exceeded - in their brutality by right-wing paramilitary groups that originated in the north of the country. The paramilitaries, ironically, were originally organized by narco-traffickers incensed by kidnappings and land invasions orchestrated by the guerrillas. But they've grown, both because of active support from within the Colombian military and because they've managed to attract a large number of peasants fed up with bearing the "tax" burden placed on them by guerrillas claiming to fight...
...military assistance to Colombia is intended for the war against drugs, but the line between counter-narcotics operations and counterinsurgency is blurred by both sides in Colombia's 40-year civil war: Leftist guerrillas, dubbed "narco-terrorists" by Washington, are believed to finance themselves via the drug trade; but human rights groups assert that neither side is entirely innocent of involvement in the narcotics industry. And the reports that the U.S.-backed military is cooperating with paramilitary groups that have killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening...
...headed by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes. As the U.S. has cracked down on drug cartels in Colombia in the past decade, the business has shifted north and into the hands of Mexican traffickers, who play by the same bloody rules that characterized the lethal reign of the Colombians. Mexico's narco-industry is now a $30 billion-a-year business. "The flow of drugs through Mexico to the U.S. is not slowing down," says a U.S. official. "If anything, it's increasing...