The FARC counterinsurgency measures of the United States through the enactment of plan Colombia

Abstract

The United States had undergone a national drug epidemic that leads to an implementation of drug control policy whose operations involved cocaine eradication at its source, Colombia. The Clinton administration may recognize the close relation between Colombian cocaine production with the country’s insurgent group, mainly FARC, but was initially in refusal to be involved in the civil conflict of Colombia. It was only later in Bush administration, influenced by the global campaign of ‘War on Terror’ that the government took action in responding both issues in Colombia in order to reduce the flow of illegal drugs entering the United States. This research would purpose to analyze the operation conducted by the US government using Counterinsurgency theoretical framework that centralizes upon the strategy to delegitimize the movement of insurgent groups, which in the case of Colombia has an implication towards the Colombian drug cultivation.