Foreign Assistance and Intervention: The Role of the USAID in Colombia

In this paper I want to show how theideology of development was used as a tool tointervene in Colombia's internal affairs. Through an analysis of the narrative ofdevelopment I show that USAID was the apparatusof power used to convey American's ideology ofsecurity and how development and foreignassistance were placed outside the law,therefore, without the possibility of judicialcheck.