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United States Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Congressional Justification Fiscal Year 2004 Congressional Budget Justification - ii - Table of Contents Table of Contents PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND BUDGET SUMMARY Program Overview ...................................................................................... 3 Budget Summary....................................................................................... 14 COUNTRY PROGRAMS Andean Counterdrug Initiative Bolivia....................................................................................................... 19 Brazil......................................................................................................... 25 Colombia................................................................................................... 29 Ecuador ..................................................................................................... 36 Panama ...................................................................................................... 41 Peru ........................................................................................................... 46 Venezuela.................................................................................................. 53 Other Latin America The Bahamas............................................................................................. 59 Guatemala ................................................................................................. 62 Jamaica...................................................................................................... 66 Mexico ...................................................................................................... 70 Latin America Regional ............................................................................ 77 Africa Nigeria....................................................................................................... 83 South Africa .............................................................................................. 89 Africa Regional ......................................................................................... 93 Asia and the Middle East Afghanistan ............................................................................................... 99 Laos......................................................................................................... 106 Pakistan ................................................................................................... 110 Philippines............................................................................................... 114 Thailand .................................................................................................. 117 Asia/Middle East Regional ..................................................................... 122 - iii - Fiscal Year 2004 Congressional Budget Justification GLOBAL PROGRAMS Interregional Aviation Support ................................................................129 Systems Support and Upgrades ...............................................................134 International Organizations......................................................................137 Drug Awareness/Demand Reduction.......................................................143 Regional Narcotics Training....................................................................148 INL Anticrime Programs .........................................................................150 Alien Smuggling .............................................................................152 Border Security ...............................................................................154 Cyber Crime, IPR and CIP..............................................................156 Fighting Corruption ........................................................................159 Financial Crimes and Money Laundering.......................................162 G-8 and Lyon Group.......................................................................164 Law Enforcement and Police Science.............................................166 Program Development and Support................................................168 Civilian Police Program...........................................................................170 International Law Enforcement Academy...............................................173 Trafficking in Persons..............................................................................176 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT...........................................181 - iv - Program Overview and Budget Summary Program Overview and Budget Summary - 1 - Fiscal Year 2004 Congressional Budget Justification - 2 - Program Overview and Budget Summary Program Overview Program Objectives Americans face growing security threats both at home and abroad from international terrorist networks and their allies in the illegal drug trade and international criminal enterprises. Terrorism, drug trafficking, and international crime all exploit weaknesses in international law enforcement institutions in ways that undermine our interests and those of close friends, neighbors, and allies. Illegal drugs impose a staggering toll on our society, killing more than 19,000 Americans annually and costing more than $160 billion in terms of law enforcement, drug-related health care, and lost productivity. This is in addition to the devastating impact on families and communities and the generally corrosive effect on public institutions. In President Bush’s words, “Illegal drug use threatens everything that is good about our country.” Drug trafficking threatens the rule of law, undermines political and economic stability, and destroys lives in all the major drug producing and transit countries. No country is immune. Transnational organized crime groups, although they attract less media attention, rival the threat posed by narcotics traffickers. Of the estimated $750 billion – $1 trillion laundered globally each year, about half is from non-drug crime. Trafficking in persons, migrant smuggling, money laundering, public corruption, credit card fraud, cyber crime, IPR theft, vehicle theft, environmental crimes, and trafficking in illegal firearms cost U.S. taxpayers and businesses billions of dollars each year. International crime groups threaten free market economies in both developing and developed states and undermine rule of law and stability. In microstates in the Caribbean and Pacific areas and in other economically vulnerable states such as Paraguay, organized crime often represents the greatest economic opportunities for entrepreneurs. The September 11 attacks and their aftermath highlight the close connections and overlap among terrorists, drug traffickers, and organized crime groups. The nexus is far-reaching. In many instances, such as Colombia, the groups are the same. Drug traffickers benefit from terrorists’ military skills, weapons supply, and access to clandestine organizations. Terrorists gain a source of revenue and expertise in the illicit transfer and laundering of money for their operations. All three groups seek out weak states with feeble justice and regulatory sectors where they can corrupt and even dominate the government. September 11 demonstrated graphically the direct threat to the United States by a narco- terrorist state such as Afghanistan where such groups once operated with impunity. Although the political and security situation in Colombia is different from the Taliban period in Afghanistan – the central government is not allied with such groups but rather is engaged in a major effort to destroy them – the narco-terrorist linkage there poses perhaps the single greatest threat to the stability of Latin America and the Western Hemisphere and potentially threatens the security of the United States in the event of a victory by the insurgent groups. The bottom line is that such groups invariably jeopardize international peace and freedom, undermine the rule of law, menace local and regional stability, and threaten both the United States and our friends and allies. To meet these challenges, the President has placed the fight against terrorism, international narcotics, and transnational organized crime high on our national security and foreign policy agendas. The State Department and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) play a key role in carrying out the President’s agenda by leading in the development and coordination of U.S. - 3 - Fiscal Year 2004 Congressional Budget Justification international drug and crime policies and programs. To deal with the increasing linkage and overlap among terrorist, drug, and crime groups, INL has begun shifting from separate programs for counternarcotics and anticrime to a broader and more integrated law enforcement effort to combat the full range of criminal, drug, and terrorist threats. We do this through a comprehensive range of bilateral, regional and global initiatives aimed at building up the law enforcement capabilities of foreign governments so they can help stop these threats before they reach U.S. soil. This includes extending our first line of defense by strengthening border controls of other countries in addition to our own, ensuring that global criminals have no place to hide, attacking international financial and trade crimes, and responding to emerging crime challenges. INL efforts center on two performance goals: 1. International