U.S. Aid from Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations, Entire Region, 2006-2011
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| Country | 2006 | 2007 | Country Total |
| Western Hemisphere Regional | 105,766,000 | 57,848,000 | 163,614,000 |
| Caribbean Regional | 46,145,000 | 83,817,000 | 129,962,000 |
| Colombia | 19,575,000 | 19,434,000 | 39,009,000 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 16,592,000 | 18,372,000 | 34,964,000 |
| Ecuador | 16,352,000 | 13,674,000 | 30,026,000 |
| El Salvador | 5,469,000 | 250,000 | 5,719,000 |
| Peru | 1,157,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,157,000 |
| Honduras | 38,000 | 37,000 | 75,000 |
| TOTAL | 211,094,000 | 194,432,000 | 405,526,000 |
All amounts in U.S. dollars.
Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations:
Program DescriptionIn 1989, Congress added Section 124 to Title 10, U.S. Code, the section of U.S. law governing defense and the military. Section 124 made the Department of Defense (DoD) the lead U.S. agency for detecting and monitoring illegal drugs entering the United States by air or sea.
Section 124 does not authorize assistance to other countries. It allows the Defense Department to use its funds for drug interdiction operations such as radar sites, surveillance flights and intelligence gathering carried out by U.S. military personnel stationed in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations:
LawSection 124 establishes that the Defense Department is "the single lead agency of the Federal Government for the detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the United States." Defense Department personnel may operate equipment necessary to intercept vessels or aircraft suspected of smuggling drugs outside the land area of the United States. Section 124 does not authorize military personnel to accompany host-nation forces on counter-drug operations or to "intentionally expose themselves to situations where hostilities are imminent." Section 124 does not allow the Defense Department to provide counter-drug assistance.
Grant Aid Table Sources:
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations ; -
Economic Aid Table Sources:
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations ; -
Trainees Table Sources:
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations ; -
Sales Table Sources:
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations ; -
Deployments Table Sources:
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Caribbean Regional 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Colombia 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Ecuador 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations El Salvador 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Honduras 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Netherlands Antilles 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Peru 2006; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Western Hemisphere Regional 2006; - United States, Department of Defense, Office of Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information Act Request by Marina Walker Guevara, Ref: 06-F-0839 (Washington: September 26, 2006) (Link to source).
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Caribbean Regional 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Colombia 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Ecuador 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations El Salvador 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Netherlands Antilles 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Western Hemisphere Regional 2007; - United States, Department of Defense, Section 1209 Report to Congress on Foreign-Assistance Related Programs Carried out by the Department of Defense (Washington: August 2008) (Link to source).
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Netherlands Antilles 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Western Hemisphere Regional 2007; - U.S. Department of Defense, Response to Freedom of Information Act Request submitted by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Washington: Department of Defense, April 2008).
- Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Honduras 2007; Section 124 Counter-Drug Operations Peru 2007; - (1) U.S. Department of Defense, Response to Freedom of Information Act Request submitted by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Washington: Department of Defense, April 2008). (2) United States, Department of Defense, Section 1209 Report to Congress on Foreign-Assistance Related Programs Carried out by the Department of Defense (Washington: August 2008) (Link to source).
