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What was the point of Plan Colombia? Is the US government still concerned with fighting drugs? Why have 20 years of drug wars in the Andes 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 brutal Colombia military and spraying coca fields in rebel-held parts of the country when coca is grown all over Colombia? And what about oil, given that Colombia has the same oil potential as Venezuela, currently the second largest oil supplier to the US? The award-winning team that brought us Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm now sheds light on the complex issues of drug-trafficking and civil struggle in Colombia and the impact of both the current chemical-spray program and the multibillion dollar aid package delivered to the military. Analysis and interviews with Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (later taken hostage by the FARC), US Members Of Congress John Conyers and Jim McGovern, US State Department officials, a World Wildlife Fund scientist, as well as Colombians from all walks of life, including guerilla leaders... Narrated by Ed Asner, this is another sterling effort of illumination on a subject that isn't going to go away anytime soon. New DVD extra features include English and Spanish versions and behind the scene interviews with Paul Wellstone, Noam Chomsky, Sanho Tree, and more.
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