3/2: Plan Colombia's purpose is defending the operations of Occidental, British Petroleum and Texas Petroleum and securing control of future Colombian fields. The main interest of the United States is oil. -Stan Goff, a former U.S. Special Forces intelligence sergeant, retired in 1996 from the unit that trains Colombian anti-narcotics battalions.
Predictably, US policy is generally interested in one thing: securing economic and political hegemony throughout the western hemisphere and the world. The government's strategy is quite consistent, as evidenced by Plan Colombia, in its effort to eradicate guerrillas fighting the Colombian government. The capitalist struggle in Colombia is essentially about one thing, i.e. oil, and eradicating anyone that gets in the way of unfettered domination by the US and its client states.

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