Blackwater [now Xe Services]...recently entered into a $42 million civil settlement with the State Department...after the agency found that the company violated international arms trafficking and export regulations no less than 288 times. The settlement is mainly focused on the company's business dealings in Iraq and Afghanistan, but within a 41-page document (PDF) of the State Department's findings on the case, the agency also claims that Blackwater provided at least one unauthorized military training in Colombia in 2005, allegedly in violation of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). According to the findings, Blackwater (which changed its name to Xe Services in 2009...) provided “military training to foreign persons from Colombia” before “obtaining required authorizations” through the State Department...The details of this “unauthorized” training are made more disturbing when considering how the Colombian military and paramilitaries in the country continue to participate in well-documented human rights abuses...