Democracy and security concerns have been interests for the U.S. and Colombia and their traditional and long bilateral state relationships.Likewise, democracy and security objectives were addressed to design and implement the strategy under the label of Plan Colombia.By 2000, the United States of America and Colombia implemented Plan Colombia to disrupt, deny, and neutralize illegal drug production and trafficking in Colombia, by providing military aid and strengthening social programs through alternative programs and investment in physical infrastructure (Ramírez, Stanton & Wash, 2005).Even though the former were the original goals stated by Plan Colombia, in practice this Plan enabled the Colombian government to rebuild the sate-nation while fighting drug-trafficking.In retrospect, the situation in Colombia by the late 1990s was dramatically negative in terms of insecurity, ineffective governance, insecurity, and low-level of rule of law.In all these regards, Colombia was facing hybrid threats in terms of insurgency, terrorism, criminal bands, and kidnapping.Actors such as the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, National Liberation Army or ELN, and the right wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia or Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) were involved in narcotrafficking and caused insecurity and endemic violence (Reid, 2007).As a result, the country faced an economic downturn, social inequality, wide violence, corruption, and low-level education.Likewise, poverty and internally displaced persons (IDPs), increased in rural areas, while environmental degradation reached peak levels.All of these were linked to illegal drug production and trafficking (Pizarro & Gaitán, 2006).In brief, legitimacy was at stake and therefore, the country's stability.