United States Assistance Options for the Andes: Hearing Before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control and the Subcommittee on International Trade of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, February 22, 2000, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 177 pages |
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Administration air interdiction aircraft alternative development Ambassador PICKERING Andean region areas assistance package ATPA Barry McCaffrey Battalion bilateral Bolivia Caucus on International Charles Grassley Senate coca cultivation coca production cocaine Colombian armed forces Colombian government Colombian military Colombian National Police CONTROL AND SUBCOMMITTEE Control February 22 counterdrug counternarcotics counternarcotics efforts drug production drug trade drug trafficking economic Ecuador eradication FEBRUARY 2000 WITNESS FINANCE JOINT HEARING funding Government of Colombia Grassley Senate Caucus guerrillas heroin human rights illegal drugs implementation includes increased insurgent intelligence interagency interdiction efforts International Narcotics Control law enforcement million Narcotics Control February National Drug Control Office paramilitary percent Peru Peru and Bolivia Plan Colombia President Pastrana programs proposed RECORD SENATE CAUCUS Record Submitted reduce Senator BIDEN Senator Charles Grassley Senator Graham Senator GRASSLEY Senator SESSIONS southern Colombia SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL Tres Esquinas U.S. ASSISTANCE OPTIONS U.S. Customs Service UNCLASSIFIED QUESTION United Venezuela
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Page 51 - ... disrupt the narco-financing of these groups, regardless of any political orientation they may claim, if any comprehensive solution to Colombia's problems is going to succeed. PLAN COLOMBIA The Government of Colombia has risen to this challenge and is confronting these threats. The "Plan Colombia" is a package of mutually reinforcing policies to revive Colombia's battered economy, to strengthen the democratic pillars of society, to promote the peace process and to combat the narcotics industry....
Page 11 - The Department of Defense, the US Customs Service, and the US Coast Guard play a key role in providing the resources necessary to detect and monitor suspected air and maritime drug-trafficking activity.
Page 5 - Statement by General Barry R McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy Before the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources The Evolving Drug Threat in Colombia And other South American Source Zone Nations...
Page 30 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: We thank you for the opportunity to testify in these public hearings about the very serious problems involving fresh water resources in central and southern Florida.
Page 7 - Mexico is the primary transit country for cocaine entering the United States from South America. It is also a major source country for heroin, marijuana and, more recently, methamphetamine.
Page 56 - USG has credible evidence of commission of gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary is able to certify that the Government of Colombia has taken effective measures to bring those responsible to justice. We are firmly committed to...
Page 53 - ... government to establish democratic control and provide services and infrastructure throughout its national territory. Plan Colombia was designed with the benefit of knowing what has worked in Bolivia and Peru. With US assistance, both countries have been able to reduce coca production dramatically. This was achieved through successful efforts to re-establish government control and bring government services to former drug producing safehavens. Both Bolivia and Peru combined vigorous eradication...
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Page 51 - Plan Colombia The Government of Colombia has taken the initiative to confront the challenges it faces with the development of a strategic approach to address its national challenges. The "Plan Colombia - Plan for Peace, Prosperity, and Strengthening of the State...
Page 9 - ... in staffing, limitations on information sharing, and other restrictions on the US ability to provide assistance to certain foreign organizations that conduct counternarcotics operations. Obstacles in Foreign Countries The United States is largely dependent on the countries that produce drugs and are transit points for trafficking-related activities to reduce the amount of coca and opium poppy being cultivated and to make the drug seizures, arrests, and prosecutions necessary to stop the production...