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Conflict & Drugs

On-line academic journal on complexity, conflict and drugs in the American Region.

DOCUMENTS

 In the Debate

 Electronic Books

 Chemical War and Pesticides

 Current News

II Mesa Agraria del Caquetá, I de la CMI

Foro “Politica Nacional de Drogas”

Conversatorio Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia

PESTICIDE INTOXICATION:

• Pesticide drift  [N.E: For countries where Human Rights are still more than mere words]
   

• WWF:
  An Evaluation of Pesticides Disrupting the Hormone and Reproductive System
   

• Environmental Justice Foundation

  What’s Your Poison? Health Threats Posed by Pesticides in Developing Countries
   

• Monsanto & Genetic Engineering:
  Risks for Investors (report prepared by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors for Greenpeace) [abril, 2003]

• Charles M. Benbrook
  Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States [Nov 2003]
   

• Food News:
  Why reducing pesticide exposure is smart
   

• Danish Water contaminated by Roundup, Ban Imposed [September 16 2003]

• Mary Barr: Choppers for fumigation and eyewitness account of fumigation

• US fumigation Org, for full coverage on all fumigation issues.

• Series of fumigation photos by Sanho Tree

• Sunshine Project: The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) and Related Agreements

• Pesticide Links

CHEMICAL WAR AND PESTICIDES

• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety [January 2000]
   

• OEA:
  Draft Resolution Human Rights and the Environment in the Americas [May 2001]

  IMPUNITY IN CHEMICAL WAR IN COLOMBIA:

• Compendium of over 8.000 citizens' complaints of effects of fumigation

• Martín Jelsma: Chronology Chemical and Biological War

• International Coalition Condemms Fumigation [November 2000]

• Sunshine Project: Biological Weapons in the Drug War [December 2000]

• Letter to Mary Robinson (UN Human Rights Commissioner) Requesting a Halt to Fumigation [July 17, 2001]

• Kintto Lucas: Anti-Coca Fumigation Takes Toll in Border Area [July 15, 2001]

• Complaint for equitable relief and for damages to remedy the injury to their persons inflicted by the fumigation actions of Dyncorp [September 2001]

• A Study of the Health Complaints Related to Aerial Eradication in Colombia: This case study was commissioned and paid for by the Narcotics Affairs Section of the United States Embassy in Bogotá. It was conducted by Camilo Uribe.  
   

• Ted Schettler MD, MPH: Consultation Review of the Use of Pesticide for Coca Eradication in Colombia

  The exposure assessment is incomplete because it is limited by unwarranted assumptions about spraying conditions and routes of exposure. As a consequence, the document provided by the EPA fails to provide data sufficient for determining the magnitude of the risks of the spray program and whether or not they are “unreasonable.” [August 19, 2002]

   

• US Embassy: Memorandum of Justification Concerning Determination on Health, Environmental, and Legal Aspects of Coca Eradication in Colombia [September 2002]
   

• Anna Cederstav, AIDA
  Department of State Report to Congress regarding Aerial Eradication Program in Colombia This memo comments on the DoS report to Congress and outlines the main reasons for our conclusion that the DoS has failed to meet the conditions established by the chemical procurement provision [September 23, 2002]
   

• Reported Massive Exodus of Peasants from Putumayo with Health Effects from Aerial Spraying [September, 2002]
   

• US Embassy: The Colombian Government's Spray Compensation Process [September 2002]
   

• Acción Ecológica - Report on Verification Mission, "Impacts in Ecuador of fumigations in Putumayo as part of Plan Colombia, [October 2002]
   

• Elsa Nivia(Rapalmira)
  Fumigation induces further planting of illicit crops in Colombia [September 2002]
   

• Mama Coca: Human Rights and Environmental Violations

• COCCA: Don't Fumigate Us Anymore

• America's Org: Poison Rain

• Marco Cappato: Parliamentary question on fumigation [abril 28, 2003]

• AIDA:AIDA Memo on Class Action Lawsuit [June 9, 2003]

• Earthjustice: Plan Colombia Threatens Human Health, Environment_[June 13, 2003]

• OPIAC: S.O.S. for Indigenous Peoples [July 2003]

• Tribunal de Cundinamarca: Colombian Court Orders Suspension of Coca Spraying

• Astrid Puentes y Thomas Ruppert:Provisions for Aerial Eradication of Coca and Poppy in Colombia Under U.S. Law [May, 2003]
   

• The Uribe Administration: Resolución 0013:
  "That the Program for Eradicating Crops with the Herbicide Glyphosate, PECIG, should be considered as the mitigation plan exercised by the state in the face of negative environmental impacts caused by illicit crop growers.."  [June 27, 2003] (Two wrongs make it right)
   

• Jeremy Bigwood:Scientists eye glyphosate-fusarium
   

• To Save a Village
   

• C.M. Benbrook:
  Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States
   

• Monsanto & Genetic Engineering: Risks for Investors (report prepared by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors for Greenpeace) [abril, 2003]
   

• Round-up Ready Sudden Death Syndrome [November 2003]
   

• MM Moreno
  Alvaro Uribe's Reasons for Waging Chemical War Against the Colombian People [November 2003]
   

• US Department of State
  Memorandum of Justification Concerning the Aerial Eradication of Coca and Opium Poppy in Colombia  [December 2003]
   

• US Goverment_
  Certification of Aerial Fumigation with Chemical Mixtures [December 15, 2003]
   

• US Sate Deparment Report on the blessings of aerial fumigation with chemical mixtures against the Colombian people [January 2004]

Spray operations...the politically correct term for bombing defenseless peoples with chemical mixtures, as quoted from the US Department of State:

"--Conducting spray operations is dangerous work. All of the pilots in the spray program have extensive flying experience and receive specialized training for the type of flying and local conditions that they will face. We also provide advance survival training for our pilots in the case of a forced landing. Each spray mission is planned for maximum security, using all available intelligence. If a spray mission should face major risk, it is cancelled or conducted with pre-positioned counterdrug ground troops. There are armed security escort helicopters as well as at least one search and rescue (SAR) helicopter. We are constantly evaluating our operations to refine our procedures and improve security for our personnel."
(Distributed by the US State Department International Information Program. To see the full document:   

The question is: Who will protect the Colombian  people from "our" personnel?

• What people think of fumigation: in favor and against

• Alfredo Molano:
  Fumigating the Nation's Parks

• Adam Isacson, CIP: 
  Memorandum: The State Department’s data on drug-crop cultivation, March 2004

• Afghanistan:
  US aircraft accused of mystery spraying of herbicide without authorization  [Decembre 2 2004]