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• Source of Information
• Brief to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  by Gen Hill, SOUTHCOM Commander 29 OCT 03
  
• What is SOUTHCOM?

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• What is Plan Colombia?
• 1. 6 year plan
• 2. Targeting primarily three
  Narcoterrorist organizations
  
• 3. Includes political reform,
• military operations, land reform,
• expansion of government
  infrastructure, human rights

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• Why is this plan Necessary?
• 1. To Colombia
• 2. To the Region
• 3. To the United States

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• KEY PLAYERS
• Good Guys President Uribe
• Colombian Government
• U.S. And regional
  countries
  
• Bad Guys FARC (Revolutionary armed
  forces of Colombia)
  
• ELN (National Liberation
  Army)
  
• AUC (United Self Defense
  Force)

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• SOUTHCOM Support to Colombia.
• 1. Implementation of Military aspects of
  plan.
  
• 2. Train and advise Colombian armed forces.
• 3. Train the Counter Narcotics Brigade.
• 4. Provide intelligence and logistics
  support.
  
• 5. Equip with helicopters to provide air
  mobility
  
• to reach difficult access areas.
• 6. Provide engineer and infrastructure
  support.
  
• 7. Assist in Human Rights training and
  development of
  
• legal system.

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• Human Rights
• 1. Huge part of overall strategy.
• 2. Colombian Government was responsible for
  55 of all human rights violations in mid
  1990s.
  
• 3. Today 98 of all abuses are at the
• hands of narcoterrorist.

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• 1. Controversial from conception and dangerous
  for region if fails
  
• Difficult road ahead
• 3. Uncertain outcome
• 4. Remarkable achievements good chance of
  success

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CONCLUSION