Foreign Aid to Colombia, Part 1
Channel: HouseResourceOrg
Date: 2011-01-04

Foreign Aid to Colombia, Part 1 - House Oversight Committee 2000-02-15 - Product 155423-1-DVD - U.S. House of Representatives.  House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources.  Witnesses testified about the administration's proposed .6 billion aid package to Colombia to help fight drug production. Among the issues they discussed were providing up to 30 Blackhawk helicopters to help the Colombian police destroy poppy crops, the scale of U.S. involvement, and the possible escalation of the forty-year civil war.  Filmed by C-SPAN. Non-commercial use only. For more information, see http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/155423-1