UNDER-RADAR-WATCH-Pentagon Building Bases in Central America and Colombia Despite Constitutional Court Striking Down Base Agreement http://forusa.org/blogs/john-lindsay-poland/pentagon-building-bases-central-america-colombia/8445#

Last August, Colombia’s Constitutional Court struck down the agreement that would give the United States military use of seven bases in Colombia for ten years, because the agreement was never submitted for Congressional approval or judicial review. Yet, even after the agreement was declared “non-existent” by Colombia’s highest court, the Pentagon initiated unprecedented amounts of new construction on bases in Colombia. The contracts place in serious doubt the Pentagon’s respect for Colombian sovereignty.

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