Colombia: On the Rio Tapaje

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A trip to an abandoned town on the Rio Tapaje, southern Colombia. The river is one of many waterways that has been targeted by U.S. cocaine eradication program called Plan Colombia.

The government of Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has been paralyzed by allegations that highly placed officials colluded with paramilitary groups implicated in assassinations and drug smuggling, even as Uribe presses the United States for a lucrative trade deal and to continue its massive flow of military and counter-narcotics aid.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Beyond the Law: Colombia's Embrace of Paramilitary Power" (http://bit.ly/tWymVZ).

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People & Blogs

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• Pulitzer Center
• Drug Smuggling
• Drug Wars
• FARC
• Plan Colombia
• Displaced People
• Coca
• Cocaine
• Drug Trafficking
• Counter-Narcotics
• Narcotics
• Illegal Drug Trade
• Drug Cartel

[dftycoon]

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[Disket99]

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[spookytom]

The fear on the children's faces is palpable. They know that neither the Colombian government and their Paramilitary collaborators, or the FARC care that hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians die or are made homeless by the so-called "Drug War", which only benefits drug dealers, Colombian Government Officials, and of course--US weapons manufacturers.