SERAMBINEWS.COM - Long before the US government involves Colombia through Plan Colombia (1990-2016), which has sparked a drug war, the country's domestic situation is already chaotic.
More than 50 years, the country that is the source of coca plantation (cocaine-producing trees) in the world's largest rupture of civil war between government troops and Marxist guerrillas, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The Colombian government, later aided by the United States with a target to halt the narcotics trade, protected the oil pipeline that flowed from Colombia to US tanks, and crushed the FARC guerrillas, was not immediately able to tackle all the problems.
Even new conflicts arise, namely gang warfare and drug cartels and US anti-drug body, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
US interests in Colombia are actually quite a lot, but the main thing is the smooth delivery of oil through very long pipes and empties into the Caribbean Sea, where the US tanks are located.
Moreover, America also has an interest in cracking down on the narcotics cartel network in Colombia.
To handle the oil business and eradicate the narcotics trade, the United States not only deploys the DEA and helps the Colombian government with billions of dollars, taou also sends military advisors and mercenaries who are in charge of training the local military.
The origin of US-paid mercenaries was supplied by DynCorp since 1997 with a total contract value of $ 600 million per year.
The duties of the mercenaries sometimes outnumber the regular US troops because in addition to training Colombian soldiers they are also fighting FARC guerrillas.
In terms of facilities, DynCorp personnel are spoiled and drooled by Colombian regular troops and the antinarchal police they are training.