Why the Colombia-US military agreement

Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

If the United States needs to carry out military operations in Colombia is because obviously it wants to serve a military purpose. Otherwise it would use organizations like the DEA, FBI, or any other nonmilitary agency of the U.S. government.

In this sense, most military operations are aimed at neutralizing heavily armed threats, military forces generally, which in the case of Colombia leads us to think specifically in the socialist guerrillas. So we can conclude that the most likely target of the U.S. military that would work in Colombia would be the FARC.

Uribe has made great advances against the rebels, but it seems that he does not have the ability to dismantle them completely, or strongly reduce their narcotics empire -A 2009 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office says the FARC accounts for 60 percent of the total cocaine exported from Colombia to the United States- And if that were not enough, the governments of Castro, Chavez, Ortega and Correa are determined to continue contributing with these irregular groups. Realities that the governments of Colombia and the U.S. should have pondered before creating a military agreement that would allow U.S. forces to operate out of seven Colombian bases.

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