Persuasive Essay On Plan Colombia

PLAN COLUMBIA
Intro:
“My partner and I affirm the resolution which states, “Resolved: The United States should end Plan Colombia.”

Definitions
“In order to clarify this round of debate, we would like to offer the following definition:”
Plan Colombia: the US aid package given to Colombia to combat the drug war through military means that has been worth over 5 billion dollars since 2000.

Now I will give a Resolutional Analysis: This resolution implies immediacy (therefore this argument is resolutional and fact based) so the pro must prove that Plan Colombia should be ended right now. Additionally, all plans and programs in place under plan Colombia are to be considered a part of the plan and arguments on them should be evaluated in this round.
So, this has been one of those practices that military groups, the Colombian army as well as the U.S. army, have implemented in order to keep the population submissive and living in terror.” For instance, according to a report commissioned by the Colombian government and the FARC, U.S. soldiers and military contractors sexually abused at least 54 Colombian girls between 2003-2007. The problem is, they cannot be held accountable. “There is abundant information about the sexual violence, which occurred under absolute impunity because of the bilateral agreements and the diplomatic immunity of United States officials,” said Renan Vega of the Pedagogic University in Bogota, who helped write the report. Montoya said this makes these soldiers “untouchable” and has allowed them to exercise and maintain “further abuse of power against women and children.”

Sexual violence against women has been a military strategy as a result of Plan Colombia.
Kimberly Brown, Staff Writer at teleSUR News, February 3, 2016, "Plan Colombia Has Been a Nightmare for Women," teleSUR News, http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Plan-Colombia-Has-Been-a-Nightmare-for-Women--20160203-0025.html (accessed 11/2/16)

Human rights abuses increase with
PLAN COLOMBIA IS A U.S. POLICY FAILURE

Daniel Patten, SOCIAL JUSTICE, Spring 2017, p. 85, GALE CENGAGE LEARNING, Expanded Academic ASAP.
“According to a report to Congress, Plan Colombia is “a six-year plan to end Colombia’s long armed conflict, eliminate drug trafficking, and promote economic social development.... The primary U.S. objective is to prevent the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, as well as to help Colombia promote peace and economic development because it contributes to regional security. The primary objectives of Plan Colombia are to promote peace and economic development, increase security, and end drug trafficking. (Veillette 2005)”

,Howard LaFranchi, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR March 20, 2016, pNA, LexisNexis Academic. “It [Plan Colombia] was initially conceived largely as an anti-narcotics collaboration, and that part of the plan was hardly a rousing success. Colombia’s drug trade was splintered but far from destroyed, while the drug cartels; logistical control of the trade simply shifted to Mexico. And coca production, which was reduced for a time largely through a controversial US-supported aerial eradication program, has surged back in some regions in recent