Colombia
Key Connections
- Drug Cartels — cocaine economy defining internal security
- Venezuela — contested western border; ELN/FARC-D proxies
- Ecuador — southern border spillover corridor
- United States — Plan Colombia, NATO Global Partner
- USSOUTHCOM — primary US security partner
- South America — regional container
- Insurgency — FARC/ELN analytical frame
- Monroe Doctrine — Plan Colombia as contemporary expression
- MERCOSUR — associate member
- DoD HUMINT Organizations — CENTRA SPIKE (1993): ISA/SOCOM HUMINT operation supporting the Pablo Escobar manhunt; institutional precedent for DoD clandestine HUMINT in LATAM