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U.S. Aid to Colombia Since 1997: Summary Tables 2005, requested http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/aidtable.htm FY 2005 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/28982.pdf
Dubya at the press conf. w/Uribe
http://164.109.48.86/wh/Archive/2004/Nov/23-569859.html
> ...Bush, Uribe Applaud Strength of U.S.-Colombia Partnership
Both leaders cite progress in combating narco-terrorism
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia "has been tireless" in fighting narco-terrorism in his country, "and he's making progress on behalf of the people of Colombia," says President Bush.
Appearing with Uribe at a November 22 media availability in Cartagena, Colombia...>...Since the year 2000, when we began Plan Colombia, the United States has provided more than $3 billion in vital aid.
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/vieira.php?articleid=3908 >...Viana also said the aid to Colombia will continue to flow. She was referring to the $2.37 billion in military and police assistance that the Bush administration has sent to Colombia so far, according to the Washington-based Center for International Policy.
Colombia is the third-largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world, after Israel and Egypt. In the past five years, a total of $4 billion has gone into the Plan Colombia anti-drug and counterinsurgency strategy and, more recently, the Plan Patriot military offensive.
In June, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of doubling the number of U.S. military personnel in Colombia, to a total of 800, and to increase the official number of civilians contracted by the Pentagon (the U.S. Defense Department) for Colombia to 600.
-- Michael Pugliese