Plan Colombia: Exporting the Model

By Bill Weinberg, from NACLA
The Merida Initiative, Washington’s new security program for Mexico and Central America, was immediately dubbed “Plan Mexico” by its critics—implying it is a new version of Plan Colombia. Mexico is now poised to supersede Colombia as the hemisphere’s top recipient of U.S. security aid.
From its origins 10 years ago, the multibillion-dollar [...]