Plan Colombia Linked to Increased Military Abuses https://nacla.org/node/6685

Further, units that showed increased executions after receiving assistance usually had a history of such killings before receiving aid, contradicting theories that increased U.S. funding leads to improved behavior by foreign militaries who temper their behavior in response to feeling watched. The Leahy Law The direct correlation between increased U.S. funding and increased military killing calls into question the U.S. government’s compliance with the Leahy Law, named for U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). The Leahy Law forbids the United States from providing funding to military units that are treated with impunity after committing human rights abuses.