U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colombia

Washington Post by Karen DeYoung, Claudia J. Duque | Aug. 20, 2011 (News Report)

The Obama administration often cites Colombia’s thriving democracy as proof that U.S. assistance, know-how and commitment can turn around a potentially failed state under terrorist siege. The country’s U.S.-funded counterinsurgency campaign against a Marxist rebel group — and the civilian and military coordination behind it — are viewed as so successful that it has become a model for strategy in Afghanistan. But new revelations in long-running ... Full Story »

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