This article works the thesis that the security agenda of the USA for Colombia, that acquires a concrete expression in mechanisms like the Colombia Plan and the Andean Regional Initiative, will remain as the central axis of the security policy in the South-American region. However, the notion of security that the decision makers of the USA have in mind in the Colombian case reflects a vision focused on the perceptions of threat in which new elements ("the new threats"), such as traffic, and classical factors are mixed.
Colombia; US; Security Agenda; Plan Colombia; Drug trafficking; Farcs