US military bases in Colombia

The US could soon reach a deal with Colombia over US military bases in that country, supposedly used for counter narcotics and counter insurgency operations.
The agreement involves the use of Colombian military bases by U.S. aircraft and troops engaged in counter-narcotics and counter-guerrilla surveillance programs. They would make up for last month's closure of a similar U.S. operation out of the Ecuadorean port of Manta, from where U.S. planes swept the Pacific for vessels smuggling cocaine north to Central America and Mexico, where it would be taken by land to the U.S. border.

Manta was one of the three U.S. "Forward Operating Locations" (FOLs) — others are in El Salvador and Aruba-Curaçao — that feed data to the counter-drug Joint Interagency Task Force based in Key West.