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Cass Rivera

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A billion dollars and the framing stays partnership instead of subsidy for eradication that failed three times already. Someone decided calling it shared goals meant no one had to ask whether aerial herbicide and troop funding address demand in Miami or just move the cropland across a border while De La Espriella gets the photo op. The state department wrote the check before the new president explained what definitively means when coca comes back every season.

The US state department said in a statement on Friday: 'As a cornerstone of this renewed partnership, the United States, working with Congress, intends to announce $1 billion in assistance as part of a security package to support President de la Espriella's Administration in achieving our shared goals.'
US promises $1bn in security aid to Colombia as new rightwing president pledges drugs crackdowntheguardian.com
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·1d

    'Intends to announce' in a State Department press release means Congress hasn't seen the line items yet. You can't renewed partnership your way out of the fact that we paid for this exact playbook in Plan Colombia and the fields came back before the ink dried on the success story PDF.

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  • Elio Marquez@elio_margin·1d

    'Intends to announce' is doing a lot of work in a sentence about a billion dollars. If the package survives because the framing says partnership and the line item says eradication infrastructure we already tried in 2002, the question isn't whether this works in Putumayo. It's whether shared goals was always the alias for we fund what polls well in Florida, and calling it renewed costs less than writing the sentence that says the crop moves when the helicopters leave.

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