Originally, the focus was on achieving peace and ending violence, within the context of the ongoing peace talks that Pastrana's government was then holding with the FARC guerrillas, following the principle that the country's violence had " deep roots in the economic exclusion and ... inequality and poverty ".

The competition often features new tricks such as Tony Hawk's 900 in skateboarding, Travis Pastrana's double backflip in freestyle motocross, Heath Frisby's first ever snowmobile front flip in Snowmobile Best Trick, and Torstein Horgmo's first landed triple flip in a snowboard competition.

In 2005 President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who had been a critic of Pastrana's peace process with the FARC and had received criticisms from Pastrana regarding his negotiations with Colombian paramilitary groups, surprisingly offered the former president the post of Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC.

In the support of the strike converged sectors of the left: the Communist Party, and MOIR Revolutionary Socialist Union with the industry Ospino Pastrana's Conservative Party, a strange confluence only be explained by the new scenario national front post.

Pastrana's term is generally known for protecting the rights of large landowners and encouraging housing construction as an engine of growth.

The faction of Ospina survived through Misael Pastrana's son Andres Pastrana ; while Alvaro Gómez Hurtado, son of Laureano Gómez, led a dissidential group called the National Salvation Movement.

In order to confront these challenges, the Pastrana administration unveiled its Plan Colombia in late 1999, an integrated strategy to deal with these longstanding, mutually reinforcing problems.

The main stated objectives of the original Plan Colombia were to promote peace, combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian economy, improve respect for human rights, and strengthen the democratic and social institutions of the country.

The Plan would fit within the broader social, economic, and political goals of Plan Colombia.

The FARC say they represent the poor people of rural Colombia against the economic depredations of the ruling bourgeoisie ; the political influence of the U. S. in the internal affairs of Colombia ( i. e. Plan Colombia ); neo-imperialism ; the monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations ; and the repressive violence from Colombian state and paramilitary forces against the civilian population.

However, after the failure of the peace process and the activation of Plan Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected President in 2002, starting a massive attack on terrorist groups, with cooperation from civil population, foreign aid and legal armed forces.

Since Roundup is a key ingredient in the multibillion-dollar aerial coca eradication campaign undertaken by the government of Colombia with U. S. financial and military backing known as Plan Colombia, increasing popularity of Boliviana negra amongst growers could have serious repurcussions for the War on Drugs.

A Colombian National Police OV-10 plane sprays herbicides over a coca field in Colombia as part of Plan Colombia

In 2006, a U. S. congressional report listed a number of PMCs and other enterprises that have signed contracts to carry out anti-narcotics operations and related activities as part of Plan Colombia.

The Government's own policy, known as the Ridley Plan was to reduce Britain's reliance on coal ; they also claimed that coal could be imported from Australia, America and Colombia more cheaply than it could be extracted from beneath Britain.

In 2000 the U. S. began funding, continued under the U. S. Bush administration, of Plan Colombia, intending to eradicate drug crops and to act against drug lords accused of engaging in narcoterrorism, including among them the leaders of the marxist FARC and the AUC paramilitary forces.

This prohibitionist strategy is being pursued in the coca-growing regions of Colombia ( Plan Colombia ), Peru, and formerly Bolivia, where it is highly controversial because of its environmental, health and socioeconomic impact.

Aerial spraying of glyphosate herbicide, one of the most controversial methods of coca eradication, has taken place in Colombia exclusively because of that government's willingness to cooperate with the United States in the militarized eradication of coca after signing Plan Colombia in 2000.

* Plan Colombia

DynCorp also argued that the plaintiffs ' claims of violations of international law were based on actions by DynCorp that were expressly authorized by the US Congress under Plan Colombia.

These include things such as supplying bodyguards to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and piloting reconnaissance airplanes and helicopters as a part of Plan Colombia.

The term Plan Colombia is most often used to refer to U. S. legislation aimed at curbing drug smuggling and combating a left-wing insurgency by supporting different activities in Colombia.

Plan Colombia can also refer to a wider aid initiative originally proposed by Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango, which included U. S. military / counter-narcotics aid, but was not limited to it.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

* Acme ( text editor ) is a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system

The Master Plan had originally been devised in 1970 by Traynor.

Much of the route in Manhattan, where it was known as the Eastern Post Road, was abandoned between 1839 and 1844, when the current street grid was laid-out as part of the Commissioners ' Plan that had been originally advanced in 1811.

The three colors of red, white and green originally represented the three guarantees of the Plan of Iguala.

Inferno is a derivative of Plan 9, which was originally developed at Bell Labs by the creators of Unix and C, among others.

* Internet Link protocol, developed originally as part of Plan 9 from Bell Labs

It was originally an air base under the command of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where pilots from the British Commonwealth and former colonies were trained ; as a tribute to this period, a Canadair T-33 aircraft in former Royal Canadian Air Force livery is mounted in front of the main terminal building.

The Legacy Plan includes a comprehensive documentation and preservation program, which will ensure that pieces from his repertory can be studied, performed and enjoyed by future generations with knowledge of how they originally came to life.

As a result of these contacts, US input was extensive, and meant that Plan Colombia's first formal draft was originally written in English, not Spanish, and a Spanish version was not available until " months after a revised English version was already in place ".

In 2008, Koivu was featured in the Simple Plan music video for the song Save You, which was originally written for the lead singer's brother.

For the purposes of the London Plan, there has been a North London sub-region in operation since 2004, originally consisting of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey and

They are currently published by Moonbase Press, with older books originally published by Plan 9 Publishing.

According to Asimov's novels, Hari Seldon devised the Seldon Plan using a mathematical analysis he originally developed and called psychohistory.

The Missouri Plan ( originally the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan, also known as the merit plan, or some variation ) is a method for the selection of judges.

Prompted by the now rejected 2005 Griffith Park Master Plan Draft, a citizens movement emerged to advocate rejection of the plan, cooperating originally under the name " Save Griffith Park ," and was incorporated in September 2010.

Construction of the M26 began in 1977, although a route on a similar alignment was originally proposed in the Greater London Plan in 1944 as part of proposed post war improvements to London area transport network.

Part of the Bradfield Plan, St James Railway Station was originally intended to be a major interchange with the eastern suburbs railway line on Sydney's underground rail system.

Map of the city of Washington, D. C., published in 1851 but still extant as of 1926, showing the area around Federal Triangle as originally planned and built according to the L ' Enfant Plan.

Hoddle St-Punt Rd-Barkly St. was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F2 Freeway Corridor.

The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F9 Freeway corridor.

The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F14 Freeway corridor.