GAO Report Shows Plan Colombia Did Not Meet Drug Reduction Goals and Recommends U.S. Cease Military Support Operations

At the end of October 2008, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, showing that “Plan Colombia,” the Colombian government initiative announced in September 1999 has not come close to its goal of reducing the production of illicit drugs (primarily) by 50 percent in six years and that the U.S. continue to turn over the initiative to the Colombian government...[more]