Plan Colombia: Plan for Peace or Plan for War?

About

This pamphlet has been prepared by Richard Schmitt for the Anti-Intervention Project of the Radical Philosophy Association. More copies may be secured by sending an e-mail to Richard Schmitt at [email protected]

The RPA Anti-Intervention Project has also produced a booklet on the war in Yugoslavia: Against Nato's War in Yugoslavia

It can be obtained by writing to Betsy Bowman at [email protected]

For more information about the RPA Anti-Intervention Project please consult our web site
RPA Anti-Intervention Project

Table of Contents

• What is Plan Colombia ?
• Where do Drugs Come From?
• Does Drug Eradication Work?
• What Sort of Place Is Colombia ?
• Why Send Mostly Weapons to Colombia?
• Who Are the Players in the Colombian Drama?
• Will this Plan Decrease the Violence in Colombia?
• Why Does the US Adopt this Unpromising Strategy?
• What Should the US do to Help Colombia?
• Notes

More Resources

If you want to know more about what is happening in Colombia and what our government is doing there, here are some useful links:

• Colombia Support Network
  
• Human Rights Watch
  
• Washington Office on the Americas
  
• Colombia Report
  
• NACLA Report on the Americas