Drug Dealer Testimony on Money and Banking – Kerry Committee II Day 1-24 (1988)
February 8, 1988 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com As part of its Plan Colombia program, the United States government currently provides hundreds of millions of dollars per year of military aid, training, and equipment to Colombia, to fight left-wing guerrillas such as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), which has been accused of being involved in drug trafficking. Private US corporations have signed contracts to carry out anti-drug activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp, the largest private company involved, was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department. Colombian military personnel have received extensive counterinsurgency training from US military and law enforcement agencies, including the School of Americas (SOA). Author Grace Livingstone has stated that more Colombian SOA graduates have been implicated in human rights abuses than currently known SOA graduates from any other country. All of the commanders of the brigades highlighted in a 2001 Human Rights Watch report on Colombia were graduates of the SOA, including the III brigade in Valle del Cauca, where the 2001 Alto Naya Massacre occurred. US-trained officers have been accused of being directly or indirectly involved in many atrocities during the 1990s, including the Massacre of Trujillo and the 1997 Mapiripán Massacre. US military schools and manuals have been training Latin American officers …
This is a music video for the Jonathan Coulton song “re: Your Brains”. Jonathan Coulton is a singer/songwriter who releases his songs via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. Through his “Thing A Week” podcast, Jonathan has put out a clever, creative song like this one every week for a year. Please visit www.spiffworld.com for more information about my videos, including info about how I make them. The song at the end of the video is “Mandelbrot Set”, another great Jonathan Coulton song.
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