Colombia court fines Brazil's Odebrecht $250 million for corruption
... Colombia is a long term strategy featuring classic Pentagon-style "mission creep," with the stated objective of ridding Colombia of communist guerrilla insurgencies and prosecuting the "war on drugs." Since that time, the reported size of the FARC-EP has decreased from 16,000 to around 8,000. Based on the $10 billion outlay, the old "winning hearts and minds" concept that was the sales pitch for escalating the Vietnam war nets out in Plan Colombia at about $1.25 million per heart and mind that has been "won". Criticism of senior Pentagon officers ...
12.07.2017