Item 472

Scope and Contents The Bush administration is looking to expand the U.S. role in Colombia's internal conflict, from the fight against drug trafficking, to helping the Colombian government combat a guerrilla insurgency. Opponents of the plan say this will only lead to an escalation of U.S. involvement in a civil war there without solving the country's grave human rights crises. Critics took this message to Capitol Hill recently in a lobbying campaign against U.S. involvement in Colombia. Amidst the...