Clinton Foundation's Work in Colombia

The excerpts below show how the Clinton Foundation works for wealthy donors. The Clintons get donors access to government officials and important local contacts. Those who really benefit from the Clinton Foundation are people like Canadian financier Frank Giustra who donate huge sums of money to the Clintons. It is sad for the poor Columbians who thought they were really getting help. The entire article is long and detailed...and well worth reading. It can be found at the link provided below.

The Clinton Foundation left a toxic legacy in Colombia

10/13/16

Retrieved from http://fusion.net/story/357169/hillary-clinton-foundation-victims-colombia/

Hillary Clinton has long said she is “very proud” of the Clinton Foundation’s work, but many of its beneficiaries in Colombia wonder why. Since Bill Clinton established the foundation in the late 1990s, with help over the years from Hillary and daughter Chelsea, the nonprofit “global philanthropic empire” has raised roughly $2 billion from foreign governments and various wealthy donors…

Colombia should be the Clinton Foundation’s best case study. Ground zero for the drug wars of the 1980s and 90s, racked by uneven development and low-intensity conflict for half a century, Colombia has received more foundation money and attention than any other nation outside the United States. Colombia has also been home to the vast oil and natural gas holdings of the man who is reportedly the Clinton Foundation’s largest individual donor, Canadian financier Frank Giustra.

Many of the Colombian “success stories” touted on the [Clinton] foundation’s website – the ones specific enough for us to track down – were critical about the foundation’s effect on their lives. Labor leaders and progressive activists say foundation programs caused environmental harm, displaced indigenous people, and that it concentrated a larger share of Colombia’s oil and natural gas reserves in the hands of Giustra, who was involved in a now bankrupt oil company that worked closely with the Clinton Foundation and which used the Colombian military a 1984-style surveillance program to smash a strike by its workers.