Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
2003 · 58m
Documentary
Directed by
Gerard Ungerman
,
Audrey Brohy
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Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
Overview
Ed Asner narrates this documentary about U.S. involvement in Colombia's drug trafficking and civil unrest. The film examines the impact of chemical spraying and military funding and reveals alternate U.S. interests. Features interviews with Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Congressmen John Conyers and Jim McGovern, U.S. State Department officials, guerilla leaders and others.
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