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Plan Columbia Sreening - Apr. 27 in Berkeley | |
Date | Tuesday April 27 |
Time | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
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Location Details | |
714C University Hall, Corner of University and Oxford in Berkeley | |
Event Type | Screening |
Organizer/Author | Justice through Public Health |
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) |
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