It’s Time to Rethink U.S.-Colombia Relations
The old Plan Colombia formula no longer works. Policymakers should embrace a more holistic approach, writes a former U.S. diplomat.
Your Economy on Drugs
By any conventional measure, Colombia is a success story. Between President Álvaro Uribe’s elections in 2002 and 2008, GDP soared by 260 percent and the murder rate dropped by nearly half. This was ascribed in large part to his democratic security policies. With the assistance of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid, those policies … Read more
