“I just have to say, I just have to say, this happened in the context of Plan Colombia.” http://www.lawg.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=765&Itemid=68

A human rights activist I know saw me sitting in the back and grabbed my shoulder. “I just have to say, I just have to say, this happened in the context of Plan Colombia.” And indeed, this brutal killing and many others occurred as the United States heavily backed a Colombian army offensive into Putumayo in the early years of Plan Colombia, an offensive which expanded side by side with an increased paramilitary presence in the region.