Plan Colombia

The United States of America’s war-on-drugs is a problem that has been ongoing for many years, engulfing centuries in its path. To understand this problem, it is necessary to not only look at the issue domestically, but to view it as a major issue in foreign policy that is currently being addressed by the United States government. Extended efforts are being made in one particular country, Colombia, to help deplete the amount of drugs entering our country illegally. To aid this effort, the United States enjoined by the Colombian government have put into effect Plan Colombia, a plan designed to help control the amount of illegal drugs entering our country, among many other things. It is my goal, in discussing Plan Colombia, to discover it’s main concerns and then prove that this foreign policy is really helping our countries drug-war, and at the same instance, improving an impoverished and war-torn democracy.
In September of 1999, Colombian President Andres Pastrana held a...