Colombia Aid Failed to Halve Drug Making, Report Finds

From The New York Times:

BOGOTÁ , Colombia (AP) — The nearly $5 billion American aid package known as Plan Colombia failed to meet its goal of halving illegal narcotics production, says an American report released Wednesday.

The Government Accountability Office report does, however, find that the mostly military assistance helped Colombia markedly improve security, with kidnapping and murder rates falling and the armed forces greatly diminishing the leftist rebel threat.

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