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April 03, 2003
The real killers in Colombia
The Center for International Policy has a good and impartial overview of the Colombian civil war.
Despite the propaganda you hear in the US news media about the military bravely fighting communist drug traffickers, in fact half the drug trade (and 80 percent of the civilian killings) can be laid at the door of right-wing paramilitary death squads, who operate with the tacit collusion of the country's military.
In effect, US military aid is used, not to end the drug trade, but to transfer control of it from leftist killers to rightist killers. Typical.
Posted by Tyrone at April 3, 2003 03:51 PM