Because if you start clamping down anywhere whether its Plan Colombia in Colombia or elsewhere people are going to move into Ecuador. People are going to come up spontaneous, they will move into Venezuela, in the Rain Forest to Brazil, anywhere. The idea that we can successfully contain the conflict to Colombia is false. And the real reason we are in Putomayo is to keep conflict north of there if we possibly can, to patrol the borders, which are with Peru and Ecuador. We have time, we have a clear capacity, we have an urgent responsibility to repeal Plan Colombia.
Major media oppose it for various reasons.
Newsday ran a major editorial against it last week. Important Senators and Members of the House of Representatives have opposed it, for various reasons. If we can get sufficient information out, we can save a long struggle for freedom from being crushed by American technology, by military advisors and military troops on the ground and money. I hope that all of our friends from Colombia here will help us. When the American people want to know what the people of a foreign people really think they often look at the community here from that country.