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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDK: Hillary's Tone Deafness Towards Hispanic Voters & Clinton's Disastrous Plan Colombia:
This week Hillary Clinton again revealed a blind spot for the drug war and a deafness of tone towards Latino issues. She decided to brag about Plan Colombia, her husbands signature international drug policy initiative, which has been a total disaster in one of the most emblematic theaters of the failed war on drugs.
At a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Clinton was asked about immigration. After citing her record of voting to militarize the border and referring to immigrants as illegal, she invoked Plan Colombia to show off her hawkish bona fides, saying:
We have an example of how effective the United States can be. When my husband was president, as you remember, there was a war going on in Colombia by drug traffickers and insurgent rebels. ... And we did something called Plan Colombia. Where we helped the government figure out how to secure their country from drug traffickers and rebels. And it took a number of years but now its a success story.
Hers is a colorful revision of history. Too bad its not how things have actually gone down.
Plan Colombia a massive U.S. military and counternarcotics aid package to the Colombian government began in 2000. A decade and a half and $10 billion later, it has had little impact on coca cultivation, cocaine production or the cocaine trade (Colombia is again the worlds leading coca producer). But it has had a devastating impact on Colombia and its people.
Under Plan Colombia, US taxpayer dollars have financed gross and widespreadviolations of human rights. It has paid for thousands of people murdered, disappeared, tortured, raped. It has forced millions of people to flee their homes - fueling a conflict that has resulted in more internally displaced people than nearly any other. It has funneled monies to paramilitary death squads guilty of some of the conflicts most heinous atrocities. It has funded Colombian military units guilty of assassinating dissidents, labor leaders, and students in order to silence political opposition and crush social movements. It has paid security forces that murder thousands of civilians and dress them up as guerillas in the so-called false positive scandal - which Colombias top brass knew about as it happened. It has funded aerial fumigation using toxic chemicals that poison people and environment but fail to make a dent in the drug trade. And it has enriched U.S. military contractors and otherdrug war profiteers.
U.S. soldiers themselves have been implicated in numerous human rights abuses while deployed during Plan Colombia operations - including allegedly raping dozens of Colombian women and girls between 2003 and 2007.
This is the legacy of Plan Colombia, and try as she might, Clinton cant run from it.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-robelo/hillary-clinton-plan-colombia_b_8557396.html
At a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Clinton was asked about immigration. After citing her record of voting to militarize the border and referring to immigrants as illegal, she invoked Plan Colombia to show off her hawkish bona fides, saying:
We have an example of how effective the United States can be. When my husband was president, as you remember, there was a war going on in Colombia by drug traffickers and insurgent rebels. ... And we did something called Plan Colombia. Where we helped the government figure out how to secure their country from drug traffickers and rebels. And it took a number of years but now its a success story.
Hers is a colorful revision of history. Too bad its not how things have actually gone down.
Plan Colombia a massive U.S. military and counternarcotics aid package to the Colombian government began in 2000. A decade and a half and $10 billion later, it has had little impact on coca cultivation, cocaine production or the cocaine trade (Colombia is again the worlds leading coca producer). But it has had a devastating impact on Colombia and its people.
Under Plan Colombia, US taxpayer dollars have financed gross and widespreadviolations of human rights. It has paid for thousands of people murdered, disappeared, tortured, raped. It has forced millions of people to flee their homes - fueling a conflict that has resulted in more internally displaced people than nearly any other. It has funneled monies to paramilitary death squads guilty of some of the conflicts most heinous atrocities. It has funded Colombian military units guilty of assassinating dissidents, labor leaders, and students in order to silence political opposition and crush social movements. It has paid security forces that murder thousands of civilians and dress them up as guerillas in the so-called false positive scandal - which Colombias top brass knew about as it happened. It has funded aerial fumigation using toxic chemicals that poison people and environment but fail to make a dent in the drug trade. And it has enriched U.S. military contractors and otherdrug war profiteers.
U.S. soldiers themselves have been implicated in numerous human rights abuses while deployed during Plan Colombia operations - including allegedly raping dozens of Colombian women and girls between 2003 and 2007.
This is the legacy of Plan Colombia, and try as she might, Clinton cant run from it.
snip
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-robelo/hillary-clinton-plan-colombia_b_8557396.html
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DK: Hillary's Tone Deafness Towards Hispanic Voters & Clinton's Disastrous Plan Colombia: (Original Post)
amborin
Mar 2016
OP
She should really rethink her touting of her "foreign policy" experience.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2016
#3
peacebird
(14,195 posts)1. Another addition to the trending #HistoryByHillary
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. She should really rethink her touting of her "foreign policy" experience.
Which reeks of Kissinger.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. even running around with posters of herself as Evita struck a bad chord
not because she's closer to Isabel, but because that's like appealing to a Chinese-American audience in Uzbek because they're from the same continent
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)5. k/r