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Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

2003•58m
Documentary

Ed Asner narrates this documentary about U.S. involvement in Colombia's drug trafficking and civil unrest. The film examines the impact of chemical spraying and military funding and reveals alternate U.S. interests. Features interviews with Noam Chomsky, the late Senator Paul Wellstone, Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Congressmen John Conyers and Jim McGovern, U.S. State Department officials, guerilla leaders and others.

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Production

Free-Will Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Narrator (voice)

Ingrid Betancourt

Self

William R. Brownfield

Self

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Self

William Hartung

Self

Adam Isaacson

Self

Alfred W. McCoy

Self

Sanho Tree

Self

Paul Wellstone

Paul Wellstone

Self

James H. Williams

Self

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