Economic Impacts Of Plan Colombia

To begin with, Plan Colombia has bolstered Colombia’s reputation at the cost of an unbalanced friendship between two powers. Humans are not born to work alone; however when working with people who do not have the right intentions, all plans are ... fail. The human world is based on interests and the principle of domination over others. Power is essentially based on people’s needs and commodities. As with the American Revolution, the British did not need mastery of America, but they wanted it because it gave them prestige. Sovereignty, is the world’s way of leaving a remarkable trace that can never be forgotten throughout history. In a planet where economy has never truly risen, and inflation continues to expand, countries that have flourished,

Along the course of history societies have tried to service others; even though, a price always come attached. Without a doubt Plan Colombia has rehabilitated a nation at the edge of chaos; however, at the cost of compromising freedom and ability to grow. According to the Brooking Institution, "At first Plan Colombia was aimed at root causes of conflict and coca production, but that was dropped, and in the Bush administration it morphed into a counternarcotics and counterinsurgency project. Economic development was a minor component of the plan, and the US never tried to pressure Uribe to take on economic redistribution and the distribution of political power, nor has the US been very vocal about human rights and civil liberties issues." (Plan Colombia: Ten Years Later). Narco-trafficking was not only Colombia’s biggest issue, but one that was affecting other countries such as the US. Due to this dilemma, the USA decided to initiate Plan Colombia, whose main goal was to reduce drug trafficking and coca production. That depicts that their reason to help Colombia was not one that followed the common principles of morality; though it pursued the new image of

Their greedy intentions took their plan to a point where its’ success was only a merit for them. 10 billion dollars were spent by the US on militarizing Colombia and reducing coca production whose effect was the increase of animosity towards both the Colombian government and the US government, instead of on education and jobs that are the bases for a strong economy. As stated by Ted Galen, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute: “The level of public anger at the Pastrana government is rising ominously. When Pastrana recently traveled to one drug-producing region to sell the “soft side” of Plan Colombia (economic development), he received a harsh reception. At stop after stop he was greeted by angry demonstrators. And their message ought to trouble U.S. leaders as well as Pastrana. Many of the demonstrators waved signs showing a Colombian flag being subsumed by the Stars and Stripes, with the caption ‘Plan Colombia’s Achievements.’ Other protestors greeted the president with chants of ‘Pastrana subservient to the gringos.’ ” Without education there is no