Plan Colombia
| Plan Colombia | |
|---|---|
| Part of Colombian conflict | |
 U.S. President George W. Bush in Bogotá with Colombian President Álvaro Uribe | |
| Type | Government counternarcotics operation and political initiative |
| Planned | 1999 |
| Planned by | United States under Bill Clinton and Colombia under Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Commanded by | United States Department of State & Defense under Clinton and Bush Colombian government under Uribe and Arango |
| Objective | End the Colombian conflict through strengthening Colombian security forces and combating coca production. |
| Date | 2000-2015 |
| Executed by | US intelligence agencies and special forces, Colombian military and police |
| Outcome | Reduction in cocaine trafficking by 72% from Colombia and was terminated and replaced with new plan after a series of negotiations led to peace agreement with FARC. |
Plan Colombia was a United States foreign aid, military aid, and diplomatic initiative aimed at combating Colombian drug cartels and left-wing insurgent groups. The plan was originally conceived in 1999 by the administrations of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango and U.S. President Bill Clinton, and signed into law in the United States in 2000.
The official objectives of Plan Colombia were to end the Colombian armed conflict by increasing funding and training of Colombian military and para-military forces and creating an anti-cocaine strategy to eradicate coca cultivation. Partly as a result of the plan, the FARC lost much of its power against the Colombian government. Sources conflict on its effects limiting cocaine production, however US reports conclude that cocaine production in Colombia dropped 72% from 2001 to 2012, contradicting UN sources which found no change in cocaine production.
Plan Colombia in its initial form existed until 2015, with the United States and the Colombian government seeking a new strategy as a result of the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC. The new program is called "Peace Colombia" (Paz Colombia) and seeks to provide Colombia with aid after the implementation of the Peace Agreement in 2017 with the FARC.