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handle is hein.crs/crsahwt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21213 Updated May 19, 2003 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Colombia: Summary and Tables on U.S. Assistance, FY1 989-FY2004 Nina M. Serafino Specialist in International Security Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary Over the past 15 years, from FY1989-FY2003, the United States has provided Colombia with over $3.6 billion in assistance, most of it directed to counternarcotics or related efforts. During the first 11 fiscal years (FY1989-FY1999), when assistance totaled just over $1 billion, the annual levels were considerably lower than during the past three fiscal years and the current fiscal year. From FY2000-FY2003, assistance totals about $2,556 billion. The Clinton Administration increased assistance in FY2000 to fund its Plan Colombia programs to counter the spread of coca cultivation in southern Colombia. The Bush Administration has continued Plan Colombia programs through its Andean Regional Initiative (ARI), which also provides increased funding for Colombia's neighbors. In FY2002, President Bush also sought authority to expand the circumstances under which funding for the Colombian security forces can be used. As approved by Congress in 2002 and 2003, funding for FY2003 and previous years can be used for counternarcotics and anti-terrorist purposes. For FY2004, the Bush Administration has requested $573 million in State Department Andean Counterdrug Initiative and Foreign Military Financing funds, and estimates it will spend some $45 million in Colombia from the central State Department Air Wing account. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that it will spend almost $119 million for Colombia from its central counternarcotics account. Pre-Plan Colombia Funding FY1989-FY1999 While the United States has been providing counternarcotics (CN) assistance to Colombia at least as far back as the mid-1970s, former President George H.W. Bush dramatically increased CN aid to Colombia through his 1989 Andean Initiative. Grant aid to Colombia had increased gradually, albeit not evenly, through the 1980s, as Colombia evolved from a major supplier of marijuana to the United States, to nearly the sole supplier of cocaine. By the end of the 1980s, with coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production rising in the Andean region, and Colombia suffering increased political Congressional Research Service *** The Library of Congress