US Aid Hits Colombian Families, Media Calls it 'Difficult'
Al Jazeera reports on the 'inevitably difficult' fight for justice by a Colombian family whose lives were upended by US boat strikes. The article, while spotlighting individual tragedy, sidesteps the relentless US 'War on Drugs' – a campaign that has militarized Latin America for decades, destabilizing countless communities under the pretext of fighting cartels while often benefiting US defense
contractors and maintaining regional hegemony. These aren't 'difficulties'; they are direct, predictable outcomes of US military presence in sovereign nations. One might wonder if the 'difficulty' isn't in the family's fight, but in mainstream media's reluctance to connect these discrete acts of violence to the larger, taxpayer-funded military-industrial complex that profits from perpetual
intervention. The US has provided Colombia billions in military aid (sources: Council on Foreign Relations, WOLA.org) since the 1990s, fostering a cycle of violence and displacement that makes such 'boat strikes' not just difficult, but tragically routine. Who benefits from this 'inevitable difficulty?' Certainly not the Colombian families.