Colombia has been the leading recipient of US arms and training in the western hemisphere through the '90s. It has also had the worst human rights record by far during these years. That's an important correlation that we should understand because we are paying for it. Clinton authored $1.7 billion in military aid to Colombia as his last act as President. Bush added another $1 billion. Chomsky explains who gets the money, what they do with it, and the real agenda of the ground war. "If you make it impossible for peasants to survive, and when they produce the only thing they can to feed their children, and then you go after them with biological, nuclear weapons, and gunships, they're going to go deeper into the Amazon and across borders to grow more drugs." The narcotrafficers and the military are the same people in Colombia and they admit to it publicly.
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