Colombia: Summary and Tables on U.S. Assistance, FY1989-FY2003

Publication Date: May 2002

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Social conditions

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Coverage: Colombia

Abstract:

In early 2002, the Bush Administration requested $573.2 million for Colombia ($538.2 million in FY03 State Department foreign operations funds and $35.0 million in FY2002 emergency supplemental funds). This request builds on the programs developed during the Clinton Administration, whose centerpiece counternarcotics (CN) program was "Plan Colombia," through which Congress provided funding of $860 million in FY2000 emergency supplemental funds and $257 million in related FY2001 funds.

These programs were continued by the Bush Administration's FY2002 Andean Regional Initiative (ARI). President Bush's FY2002 supplemental request also seeks to expand the circumstances under which funding for the Colombian security forces can be used, however, lifting the longstanding restrictions limiting it to CN efforts. U.S. funding for Colombian CN efforts dates back to at least the 1970s. Funding for the decade FY1989 to FY1998 totaled some $692.7 million, as calculated from available figures. Funding from FY1999 through FY2002 has totaled over $2 billion.