Not the US press for sure and it's happening with our tax payer dollars under the pretext of *war on drugs*.
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Despite this appalling state of affairs, Colombia remains the third largest recipient of United States military aid in the world, with the now infamous 'Plan Colombia' alone having supplied $2 billion in military training and hardware in recent years. Although this aid was given using the pretext of the 'War on Drugs', even Washington now admits that their real target are the growing insurgencies of the FARC-EP and ELN (National Liberation Army).
This counter-insurgency assistance is aimed at pushing the rebels and their civilian supporters out of regions rich in natural resources.
Although the Colombian army and paramilitaries are responsible for the vast majority of this forced displacement, the U.S. too is responsible for driving tens of thousands from their land through a vicious campaign of chemical warfare, similar to the use of 'Agent Orange' in Vietnam.http://www.colombiapeace.org/
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