Well President Obama has issued his foreign aid request to congress and again Colombia is on the top of the list. Colombia is set to receive 118,103, 708 US dollars this year for military operations. On top of that, colombia will receive money from the Defense Department. According to Plan Colombia and Beyond, "do keep in mind that we’re looking only at assistance in the foreign aid budget here. The U.S. defense budget also provides military aid to the region, much of it for counter-narcotics programs, which normally increases the military-aid total by about one-quarter to one-third."
It looks like they are going to cut aid to colombia by 11% this year. But lets not get to excited because The US and Colombia did sign a Military base agreement that give access to US military forces and equipment. Over all, this base agreement is a increase in US intervention in Colombia.
*Photo taken from just the facts.
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