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"At just the time when President Bush announced his campaign in the War on
Drugs, with aid to Colombia as its centerpiece, the Andean Commission of
Jurists reported the the military was using antidrug measures as a pretext
to arrest and murder union leaders, grassroots organizers, and activists
in the Patriotic Union political party. The aid did not go to the
Colombian national police, which is in charge of almost all counter
narcotics operations, but to the military. By the early 1990s Colombia was
the leading recipient of U.S. military aid in Latin America, aid which
increased under the Clinton Administration and was expected to reach
record levels in 1997....
United States officials have repeatedly claimed that the War on Drugs
abroad is not counterinsurgency. But the recipients openly admit that U.S.
aid is used for this purpose, which translates into repression of the
perceived supporters of armed insurgents: that is, much of the general
population. For example, Colombian military officials informed U.S.
Congressional investigators in 1990 that most of "counternarcotics"
military aid for the year was to be used for counterinsurgency."
--From "Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor,"
Common Courage Press, 2000.
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/kim_dying.html
"From 1984 through 1992, 6,844 Colombian soldiers were trained under the
U.S. international Military Education and Training program. Over 2,000
Colombian officers were trained from 1990 to 1992..."
--From Noam Chomsky's introduction to "Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy,"
by Javier Giraldo
Victims of Political Violence in Colombia 1988-1995
Political Assassinations: 6,177
Assassinationss Presumed
to be Political: 10,556
Assassinations Presumed
to be "Social Cleansing": 2,459
Deaths in Combat between
Army and Guerrillas: 9,140
People Forcibly Disappeared: 1,451
Obscure Assassinations: 37,595
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Total: 67,378
Average per month 701.9
Average per day 23.4
--From Data Bank of the Comision Inter-Congregacional de Justicia y Paz as
reported in "Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy," by Javier Giraldo
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