The US has pledged $1bn (£740m) to Colombia hours after the country’s new right-wing populist president was sworn in.
Abelardo de la Espriella, an admirer of Donald Trump who echoed many of the US president’s policies on the campaign trail, used his maiden speech to promise an “all-out war” on drug cartels.
The US state department said the “security package” would help him achieve “our shared goals”, which include fighting organised crime and illegal immigration. Trump repeatedly criticised de la Espriella’s left-wing predecessor over his approach to both.
They’ve been doing stuff like this since before WW2.
After WW2 they supported death squads in Latin America, Pinochet, the far right Chiang Kai Shiek military regime in Taiwan, and did other nefarious deeds (things like Iran contra).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking_allegations
Before WW2 America was taking over small island nations installing banana republics and putting corporations in charge of places, as well as fighting on the side of slavery systems against workers.
America has been an evil empire for over a century now.