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DESCRIPTION:This 2004 film is still largely relevant. It discusses a dangerous 
 hypocrisy, aided by the American government, in which Colombia, as the 
 world's biggest cocaine exporter, gives rise to an illegal drug trade. The 
 funding of the trade by radical factions, a corrupt government at the time, 
 and the fact that most farmers harvest coca because they can't survive on 
 the profits of legitimate food crops all combine for a disastrous plan 
 depicted in the film. "Plan Colombia" also deals with the connection to the 
 School of the Americas, as well as the destruction of legal natural 
 resources by aerial fumigation in the name of eradicating drug crops. The 
 latter situation of crop fumigation has been somewhat improved since the 
 film was made, but the U.S. military-industrial complex continues to cash 
 in on the violence they themselves perpetrate, while still doing little to 
 actually stem cocaine production in Colombia.\n\nThe film is 57 minutes. It 
 was directed by Gerald Ungerman and narrated by Ed Asner.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/12/18498570.php
SUMMARY:Documentary Film -- Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo\n300 E. Santa Inez\nSan Mateo, CA 
 94402\n\nhttp://uusm.homestead.com/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/12/18498570.php
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