By Pamela Cruz. Pen 360 Press [P360P]
Colombia will receive $461 million in aid from the U.S. government in 2022 after the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations approves a bill to do so. However, the support will for the first time be conditional on the resources allocated to the Colombian police.
The U.S. government made it clear that from now on, if this law is approved, 30 percent of all anti-narcotics resources that reach the police of the South American country will depend on a certification from the State Department confirming that the country is investigating and punishing uniformed officers involved in human rights violations.
And after the protests that began in April of this year in Colombia, international organizations reported on the massive human rights violations committed by the Colombian police against protesters.
According to Temblores, an NGO that has been responsible for recording and documenting police violence practices through its platform