Plan Colombia: a failed anti-drug strategy used against insurgents

Plan Colombia, implemented in 1999 with the support of the United States as an anti-drug strategy, has damaged agriculture and endangered food security in Colombia as a result of aggressive fumigation. Washington has spent more than US$7.5 billion on the Plan, which the Andres Pastrana and Alvaro Uribe governments used against insurgent rebels instead of fighting drug trafficking. teleSUR