Again, it was The US hidden political agenda behind its aid to Plan Colombia, promoting democracy and combating communism within the revolutionary and insurgency groups like FARC, ELC, etc. The policy of promoting democracy is not a new policy but only in recent years have concerns been raised regarding the nature of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, including Colombia. The aid who supposed to be in order to combat drugs, was used to trained Colombia forces to combat insurgencies which was ineffective and shady. But further than that, it was not just about ideological matter, its material matter; oil resources. Colombia was one of US' top oil exporter back in the era of Andres Pastrana (the 2nd in this documenter on 43:12). This was the same shit like their intervention in Cuba, Gulf War, Middle East, Mexico, and else. Nonetheless, it is again, power, politics and oil. It was more than just democratic assistance. I enjoy reading Noam Chomsky's journals. Always been a fan of him, one of the reason I wanted to learn about Colombia drugs issue.
I worked in Plan Colombia, and I will tell you first hand, it''s a joke. Their goal was 100,000 hectares in one year, even spraying that crap via OV-10's in heavy ass rain. It was just about documenting that they sprayed, which obviously was not truly being eradicated. So much to tell about that money scam of an operation, especially the type of people that ran it, or thought they ran it. Most of them acted like children, had huge egos, and didn't appreciate the locals at all. Saw gunner killing two people (not enemy), and once I called my supervisor, he said "What happens down range stays down range". Truth hurts doesn't it DOS?
I think the situation is sad, my wife is Colombian and I have been to Colombia 4 times, going there my 5th time and i've been to Bogota, Cartagena, Barranquilla, and San Andres and have had wonderful memories. Colombians in general have been very friendly to me, the country is very beautiful and the culture is wonderful, it is a shame that people have the wrong concepts of the country about drugs, yet you can find meth labs all over the US and people don't talk about Americas drug problem.
thanks for posting a really informative documentary on Colombian conflict and the drug wars there. when was this documentary made and just watching Democracy Now's coverage of FARC ending its armed conflict against the government any hope for some kind of everlasting peace?
this is an environmental tragedy, worse than terrorism. How Colombia allows this against the poor farmers? US needs to send the army armed with hand tools, to eliminate this plants, or pay the locals to do it.
I agree with this farmers,Colombia is an expensive country to live, with $250 a month is impossible to survive there for example just gas there is around $4 or more per galon.
why? this is the most prevalent natural medicine against altitude sickness already used by maya and incas. just because idiots in banking office snort this shit the colombian farmer has to change? really? why does the banker snort cocaine?
I've been to Bogota , Riohacha, Cartegena , I loved it all and if your not an imbecile and know how to travel safe , it is one beautiful country with really nice people to meet down there. It's a little fucked up seeing the army on the roads at checkpoints between departamientos, but it's cool because you don't feel at home anymore. And i would say , it's still way safer than traveling inside Mexico today. VIVA COLOMBIA CARAJO!!
the more i learn what the usa has done in other countries (in this case colombia) i get so angry. yet i can't do anything about it, which is frustrating
Though I am an American and do love my country, I have to admit....the US is pretty fucked up here -_- I think its better for the US to use demand side policies, focusing tax payer money on prevention and treatment at home. Supply-side fails..
Chomsky is an idiotic Far Left Linguist who has no background in International Relations, Politics or History...his OPINIONS mean nothing...now if he is talking about a native language then yes, but anything else he is not a SME...
+Charlie Hope I may not agree with all Chomsky says but to reduce him to a simple linguist is pretty ignorant misrepresentation of the guy. He has developed more knowledge on history, politics and foreign relations than most politicians or academics ever will. Yes his leftist ideologies strongly bias how he views and speaks about that knowledge but he is a pretty respected intellectual above and beyond the field of linguistics.
"Make money with your own crops on your own terms and risk going to prison, or try to live off of whatever measly stipend the government deems you worthy of receiving and break your back in the process. This is a choice made with your best interest at heart :)"
Because money. Growing legal food is more expensive for them. Inland farmers can't afford to transfer food to shipping routes since they don't have great roads and plenty of food rots before it gets to market. Drug traffickers pick up the coca from the farm and pay a lot more then they could receive from regular crops.
Two reasons: 1. There is no money to be had. The video states that farming food earns a single family $950 a *year.* Yeah, an entire year. Meanwhile, a single batch of coca can earn them a $1000. It's basically a no brainer of what they would chose. 2. The US government spraying chemicals onto the plants in an attempt to kill the coca farms also kills the regular food farms, as also shown in this video. So, even *if* the farmers wanted to grow regular plants, the US is killing their crops.
Sometimes, I say that they should just make it legal. but thinking about all of the charles bronson movies that I watched, then I say naw! That's too much gun play.
Colombia needs a Duterte, or at least a Jokowi. Not only cartels will be gone, the country will turn an industrial country, because almost all the peasants will be gone with the cartels..
If I lived down there those airplanes would be getting shot down faster then they could get them off the runways! I guess they never heard of tracer rounds down there...
The ONLY reason the US is interested in Colombia "The discovery of 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m3) of high-quality oil at the Cusiana and Cupiagua fields, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Bogotá, has enabled Colombia to become a net oil exporter since 1986" if there was no oil or any minerals of interest they'd leave Colombia to rot,as they have done with other nations that have no resources they want.
i had a hard time staying awake while watching this. i hate this stuff. i'd rather do my calculus homework, or study for my physics exam...or watch por...never mind...
It does. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it's a disaster for drugs. news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin I was a stone cold heroin addict for 27 years and it wasn't the laws that made me quit, better to look at the facts rather than how you feel about it.
the problem is that we're not portugal, we have teenagers getting high on class A drugs for fun, if there are no laws, only more people will use the drugs
Hmm. I hadn't thought about that, there are no teenagers in Portugal, Switzerland. Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, or Ireland all countries that have decriminalized drugs and seen the stats go down on drug use. I am in Colombia at the moment where pot comes packaged like cigarettes and coke is to be found anywhere but is used by far fewer people per capita than countries where it has harsh penalties. I live in Cambodia where the pharmacist will offer me morphine over the counter when I ask for head ache tablets. I see no big problem there ether, heroin and methamphetamine's are available on any corner as well without consequence. You are ill informed or have no regard for facts.
Pecncorn ah yes how about we leagalize murder? I'm sure crime rates would go down. You must understand the US is were the drug problem is that people are being addicted to these drugs, if they can get them easily, Whats stopping them from taking them? and as a matter of fact my Goodman Ireland has,a drug problem that is growing out of control
Again, it was The US hidden political agenda behind its aid to Plan Colombia, promoting democracy and combating communism within the revolutionary and insurgency groups like FARC, ELC, etc. The policy of promoting democracy is not a new policy but only in recent years have concerns been raised regarding the nature of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, including Colombia. The aid who supposed to be in order to combat drugs, was used to trained Colombia forces to combat insurgencies which was ineffective and shady. But further than that, it was not just about ideological matter, its material matter; oil resources. Colombia was one of US' top oil exporter back in the era of Andres Pastrana (the 2nd in this documenter on 43:12).
This was the same shit like their intervention in Cuba, Gulf War, Middle East, Mexico, and else. Nonetheless, it is again, power, politics and oil. It was more than just democratic assistance.
I enjoy reading Noam Chomsky's journals. Always been a fan of him, one of the reason I wanted to learn about Colombia drugs issue.
I worked in Plan Colombia, and I will tell you first hand, it''s a joke. Their goal was 100,000 hectares in one year, even spraying that crap via OV-10's in heavy ass rain. It was just about documenting that they sprayed, which obviously was not truly being eradicated. So much to tell about that money scam of an operation, especially the type of people that ran it, or thought they ran it. Most of them acted like children, had huge egos, and didn't appreciate the locals at all. Saw gunner killing two people (not enemy), and once I called my supervisor, he said "What happens down range stays down range". Truth hurts doesn't it DOS?
I think the situation is sad, my wife is Colombian and I have been to Colombia 4 times, going there my 5th time and i've been to Bogota, Cartagena, Barranquilla, and San Andres and have had wonderful memories. Colombians in general have been very friendly to me, the country is very beautiful and the culture is wonderful, it is a shame that people have the wrong concepts of the country about drugs, yet you can find meth labs all over the US and people don't talk about Americas drug problem.
And we as Americans well some of us wonder why people around the world despise us its strictly because of our government !!!!!
thanks for posting a really informative documentary on Colombian conflict and the drug wars there. when was this documentary made and just watching Democracy Now's coverage of FARC ending its armed conflict against the government any hope for some kind of everlasting peace?
this is an environmental tragedy, worse than terrorism. How Colombia allows this against the poor farmers? US needs to send the army armed with hand tools, to eliminate this plants, or pay the locals to do it.
I wanted to watch a Documentary about Colombia!!!!
I agree with this farmers,Colombia is an expensive country to live, with $250 a month is impossible to survive there for example just gas there is around $4 or more per galon.
Instead of the US giving billions in military aid to Colombia just pay the people to not grow coca.
Yep. Give every farmer a living wage. A lot cheaper
that would not work because the major problem is the cartels and huge crime rings growing coca and selling it for a huge profit
why? this is the most prevalent natural medicine against altitude sickness already used by maya and incas. just because idiots in banking office snort this shit the colombian farmer has to change? really? why does the banker snort cocaine?
They will take the monthly wage AND grow coce.
@@terrym5567 You're no better, since you're categorizing all Americans in one way.
I've been to Bogota , Riohacha, Cartegena , I loved it all and if your not an imbecile and know how to travel safe , it is one beautiful country with really nice people to meet down there. It's a little fucked up seeing the army on the roads at checkpoints between departamientos, but it's cool because you don't feel at home anymore. And i would say , it's still way safer than traveling inside Mexico today. VIVA COLOMBIA CARAJO!!
Why do they constantly bang on about narcotics when cocaine is NOT a narcotic but a stimulant?
the more i learn what the usa has done in other countries (in this case colombia) i get so angry. yet i can't do anything about it, which is frustrating
He's the quintessential company man; spouting their rhetoric & using their product.
Monsanto conducts field testing at a large scale do they can use that here in the U.S for growing crops safe for human consumption.
I hate to generalize the whole U.S. gov, but jesus christ this is unacceptable.
¿Alguien ha encontrado este documental en español? D:
Though I am an American and do love my country, I have to admit....the US is pretty fucked up here -_-
I think its better for the US to use demand side policies, focusing tax payer money on prevention and treatment at home. Supply-side fails..
I wish there is more country like Mexico, Columbia, Afganistan,
Brownsfield sounds like a stereotypical villain from an American B movie.
Damn, Chomsky is a smart guy.
Chomsky is an idiotic Far Left Linguist who has no background in International Relations, Politics or History...his OPINIONS mean nothing...now if he is talking about a native language then yes, but anything else he is not a SME...
+Charlie Hope I may not agree with all Chomsky says but to reduce him to a simple linguist is pretty ignorant misrepresentation of the guy. He has developed more knowledge on history, politics and foreign relations than most politicians or academics ever will. Yes his leftist ideologies strongly bias how he views and speaks about that knowledge but he is a pretty respected intellectual above and beyond the field of linguistics.
ur biased
charlie hope is still riding the kissinger train. the biggest ongoing massmurder in history
He's not that well respected obviously.
"Make money with your own crops on your own terms and risk going to prison, or try to live off of whatever measly stipend the government deems you worthy of receiving and break your back in the process. This is a choice made with your best interest at heart :)"
if there wasnt a demand for it?what do you expect?
Thankfully the free trade of the americas never went through. It died in 2005
The narrator sounds like Leonard Nimoy and that guy who does all the NFL films documentaries.
WTF 6:50 the people on the farm got sprayed.
yes I did watch the video. Can u answer my question?
WHY wont those farmers just grow food so people can eat instead of drugs?
Because money. Growing legal food is more expensive for them. Inland farmers can't afford to transfer food to shipping routes since they don't have great roads and plenty of food rots before it gets to market. Drug traffickers pick up the coca from the farm and pay a lot more then they could receive from regular crops.
Two reasons:
1. There is no money to be had. The video states that farming food earns a single family $950 a *year.* Yeah, an entire year. Meanwhile, a single batch of coca can earn them a $1000. It's basically a no brainer of what they would chose.
2. The US government spraying chemicals onto the plants in an attempt to kill the coca farms also kills the regular food farms, as also shown in this video. So, even *if* the farmers wanted to grow regular plants, the US is killing their crops.
Sometimes, I say that they should just make it legal. but thinking about all of the charles bronson movies that I watched, then I say naw! That's too much gun play.
we've got PROgress and then we have CONgress
we PROtest in hopes they CONfess
just PROcede on your CONquest
2018 now a bigger problem then 2011.
Bravo Noam Chomsky Bravo!!! That guy is sooooo right in his interview ( 08:42 ) in this documentary!!
Why dont those farmers just grow FOOD so people could eat instead of DRUGS!
u are dammn right!!!
no way stoping la coca..no way stop the users
I wonder if monsanto is involved.
It's Ed Asner.
Colombia needs a Duterte, or at least a Jokowi. Not only cartels will be gone, the country will turn an industrial country, because almost all the peasants will be gone with the cartels..
This video needs a seizure warning at 0:15-0:20 due to the scene being illuminated as a strobe by the muzzle flash of machine weapon fire.
this is over a decade old...
and still relevant
If I lived down there those airplanes would be getting shot down faster then they could get them off the runways! I guess they never heard of tracer rounds down there...
The ONLY reason the US is interested in Colombia "The discovery of 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m3) of high-quality oil at the Cusiana and Cupiagua fields, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Bogotá, has enabled Colombia to become a net oil exporter since 1986" if there was no oil or any minerals of interest they'd leave Colombia to rot,as they have done with other nations that have no resources they want.
Viva pablo siempre
The United States are addicted to the drug money not to the drugs.
33:10 body surfing sloth cool
DynaCorps pilots using Colombian marked aircraft
Fumigated with Glyphosate to PREPARE FOR MONSANTO CROPS
Some of these Columbian people look like people from India how come very similar
Jaspreet Dahelay they have indigenous routes. And it's Colombian not Columbian.
legalize and there would be no money in it
Wow
this is the most busch league documentary ever made
from 14:35min to 15:35
coca is good for hiumanity.and peace music and biouty
Its Colombia with an O not a U.....
do dope
The evil corporation monsanto again..
They should grow Ma Huang and sell the aphedra. Meth is more popular now! LMAO
i had a hard time staying awake while watching this. i hate this stuff. i'd rather do my calculus homework, or study for my physics exam...or watch por...never mind...
Really. Yu are loosing the war brother
The solution is simple. Legalize Drugs.
that does not work
It does. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it's a disaster for drugs.
news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin
I was a stone cold heroin addict for 27 years and it wasn't the laws that made me quit, better to look at the facts rather than how you feel about it.
the problem is that we're not portugal, we have teenagers getting high on class A drugs for fun, if there are no laws, only more people will use the drugs
Hmm. I hadn't thought about that, there are no teenagers in Portugal, Switzerland. Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, or Ireland all countries that have decriminalized drugs and seen the stats go down on drug use. I am in Colombia at the moment where pot comes packaged like cigarettes and coke is to be found anywhere but is used by far fewer people per capita than countries where it has harsh penalties. I live in Cambodia where the pharmacist will offer me morphine over the counter when I ask for head ache tablets. I see no big problem there ether, heroin and methamphetamine's are available on any corner as well without consequence. You are ill informed or have no regard for facts.
Pecncorn ah yes how about we leagalize murder? I'm sure crime rates would go down. You must understand the US is were the drug problem is that people are being addicted to these drugs, if they can get them easily, Whats stopping them from taking them? and as a matter of fact my Goodman Ireland has,a drug problem that is growing out of control
GO COCAINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's natural. Sorry
... 12:05 JAMES H. WILLIAMS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.
... HE LOOKS AND TALKS LIKE A LIAR.
...
narcos!
I man wrong with you.
stop the stupid lie allready and LEGALIZE
ALL.
So you dont like colombians huh? Why dont you go to colombia and express that? I think we both know why. Colombia is the best place on earth