Anonymous Comrade writes:
Found an article by Alexander Cockburn on antiwar.com

"As we all know, the war in Colombia isn't about drugs. It's about the
annihilation of popular uprisings by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia) and the ELN (National Liberation Army), guerilla
groups or Indian peasants fending off the ravages of oil companies,
cattle barons and mining firms. A good old-fashioned counterinsurgency
war, designed to clear the way for American corporations to set up
shop in Colombia, with cocaine as the scare tactic. Two recent Defense
Department-commissioned reports outline in chilling terms the same
strategy of ongoing military intervention under the cover of the drug
war. Both urge the Bush administration to drop the pretext of
counter-narcotics and get on with the business of wiping out the
insurgents.