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DESCRIPTION:Please join Justice through Public Health for a screening of:  Plan 
 Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure  Refreshments will be 
 provided.  For more information on the film go to:    
 http://www.plancolombia.org/   ______________________________________  
 Brief Synopsis:  February 2002. With most of the US military aid under the 
 so-called "Plan Colombia" anti-drug   package delivered, Colombian 
 President Andres Pastrana unilaterally withdraws from the peace   process 
 with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and steps up 
 violence in this   50-year quasi-civil war.  In the post 9-11 context and 
 with the US State Department now branding the leftist FARC a   "terrorist 
 organization" and openly targeting it, what is left of the initial 
 anti-narcotics purpose of the US "Plan Colombia?"  Is the US Government 
 still concerned with fighting drugs? Twenty years of drug wars in the Andes 
   have resulted in a two-fold INCREASE in cocaine imported into the US in 
 the last ten years alone.   Could there be alternate purposes to a plan 
 focused on beefing up the Colombian military and   spraying coca fields in 
 rebel-held parts of the country when coca is grown in many parts of   
 Colombia that are not being sprayed?  This film sheds light on the complex 
 issues of drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Colombia and   the impact 
 of both the current chemical-spray program carried out by the US 
 Defense-contractor   Dyncorps and the multi-billion-dollar aid package 
 delivered to the brutal Colombian military.   Additional insights are 
 provided on the significant factor oil has become in the Colombian   
 equation, a country with the same oil potential as Venezuela, today the 
 second largest oil   supplier to the US.   Produced and directed by Gerard 
 Ungerman & Audrey Brohy, the makers of Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm. (VHS, 
 58 minutes, 2003)  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/23/37273.php
SUMMARY:Plan Columbia Sreening - Apr. 27 in Berkeley
LOCATION:714C University Hall, Corner of University and Oxford in Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/23/37273.php
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