* Philip Goldberg was accused of fomenting dissent in 2008 * Conservative will oversee vast military aid budgetColombia has long been a staunch US ally but Donald Trump has criticised the new president, Iván Duque, for not doing enough to stem the flow of cocaine to the US. Photograph: Rodrigo Arangua
Donald Trump has nominated a controversial career diplomat who was once expelled from Bolivia as the new US ambassador to Colombia, in a move that is likely to raise eyebrows across Latin America.
Goldberg had provoked the Bolivian president’s fury by meeting with members of the rightwing opposition; the US denied Morales’s accusations and expelled Bolivia’s envoy to Washington in response. Colombia is also currently a staging ground for the diplomatic push to oust Nicolás Maduro, the embattled president of neighbouring Venezuela.
Beginning in 2000, the US provided Colombia with nearly $10bn in aid – dubbed Plan Colombia – 71% of which went to Colombian security forces. Watchdogs say that rather than help Colombia win on the battlefield, Plan Colombia intensified a wave of paramilitary violence that victimized more than 6 million people.
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