Clinton signs $1.3 billion Plan Colombia appropriation training Colombian military for counter-narcotics operations

President Clinton signed P.L. 106-246 on July 13, 2000, appropriating $1.3 billion in emergency supplemental funds for Plan Colombia, a US-Colombian counter-narcotics strategy aimed at reducing coca cultivation and cocaine production by 50 percent within six years. The package allocated 78 percent of funds to the Colombian military and police for helicopter fleets, training, and aerial eradication operations. Congress attached five human rights conditions, including a requirement that Colombian military units receiving US aid not have committed human rights violations, though the law allowed the president to waive conditions on national security grounds.