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Colombian here. You can't even compare the situation to what's happening in Venezuela. There's a lot of corruption in south america but Venezuela is total disas
by hugozap 10y ago
Colombian here. You can't even compare the situation to what's happening in Venezuela. There's a lot of corruption in south america but Venezuela is total disaster right now because of the totalitarian goverment.
- pastProlog 10y ago> You can't even compare the situation to what's happening in Venezuela. Well having the US send $1 billion a year, year after year to prop your country up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia ) helps.
- doozy 10y agoSending $1 billion a year since the start of Plan Colombia (1996) implies Colombia would have received over $20 billion by now. In reality the amount of American aid to Colombia is about half of that. And American aid does not come in cash, the money can only be spent in shiny new American-made military hardware. That's why the Colombian army has lots of Humvees and Black Hawks, paid for the U.S. taxpayer. It really is a poorly disguised subsidy to the American military industrial complex. In any case, considering Colombia has the second largest GDP in South America (after Brazil) at about $300 billion a year, receiving even $1 billion a year would be statistically speaking, noise.