Estimates are that Plan Colombia has contained the explosion of drug production despite better extraction techniques.
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Plan Colombia is a controversial five billion dollar coca eradication plan introduced in 2000.
Even with cocaine activity expanding in other Latin nations, U.S. officials describe Plan Colombia as a success.
In any event, Plan Colombia has reminded Brazil that its remote northern border region is wide open.
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Plan Colombia is a U.S. strategy aimed at curbing drug smuggling by supporting different Drug War activities in Colombia.
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The scandal gives ammunition to the critics who want to eliminate Plan Colombia.
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Plan Colombia has stopped the huge drug cartels from creating a criminal element that competes with the legitimate government.
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"Plan Colombia" was important because it enabled Colombia to strengthen its democratic institutions while making the country more governable.
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It is also peculiar that the Uribe administration was about to secure funds for the second stage of Plan Colombia.
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Many European countries think Plan Colombia is too militaristic, and they are worried too about the armed forces' human-rights record.
Plan Colombia has helped to equip the security forces and transform them into a more effective force within the country.
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Yet in and around Puerto Asis, many people fear that, far from helping peace, Plan Colombia will exacerbate the war.
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Mr Bush backs Plan Colombia, and met President Andres Pastrana in October.
In Colombia, DynCorp helps implement the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia, to eradicate coca.
But a Guatemalan version of Plan Colombia or the Plan Merida currently being discussed with the Mexican government is unlikely to materialise.
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American officials point to the relative success of Plan Colombia, a much bigger aid programme, in reducing drug-related violence in that country.
Critics of Plan Colombia say that it should give greater stress to such development efforts to help wean peasant farmers off drug crops.
Additional cuts in "Plan Colombia" will reflect in the army's future capabilities and may shift the military advantages in favor of the FARC.
Officials stress that the first phase of Plan Colombia will focus on big coca plantations of 100 hectares or more, in largely uninhabited areas.
Some Europeans are sceptical about whether Plan Colombia will be effective: they dislike the United States' emphasis on military action against the drug industry.
But the agreement will also formalise facilities for the American trainers and surveillance planes that help Colombian forces in anti-drug actions under Plan Colombia.
Critics of Plan Colombia worry too about the aerial spraying of herbicides, the method used by the Colombian police to try and eradicate coca.
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Plan Colombia was started under the Clinton administration and passed by the Congress in order to combat the major drug cartels then thriving in Colombia.
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Plan Colombia provided for the introduction of more permanent security checkpoints as well as the flexible intervention of security squads through increased use of helicopters.
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Unlike other U.S. anti-drug aid, like Plan Colombia, there does not appear to be the same strict limits on the role of American agents, Sabatini said.
To those who argue that Plan Colombia was drawn up without taking account of social realities, officials counsel patience, and say that policy will be flexible.
Fear of the refugee problem is one reason Mr Chavez has criticised Plan Colombia, an American-backed scheme which includes stepped-up military action against the drug plantations.
Latin America is still at risk and the trade accord and the continuous funding of Plan Colombia will help placate those who want to destabilize the region.
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