Book: Illicit crops in Colombia (pdf, 640kb, in Spanish)
SEPARATA: EN DEFENSA DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE, DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS Y DEL D.I.H. (en Español)
Obra Gustavo Vejarano [ cuadro original (100k) ]
MAMA  COCA
Conflict + Drugs

Academic online journal on the complexity of the American region, conflict and drugs

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS


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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Dick Emanuelsson (Swedish correspondant) I am sending you some pictures of  the Guaviare (municipality of Calamar and outskirts) of the samll farms and indigenous reserves where there are no coca crops, only subsistence crops such as manioc, tomatoes, banana, etc....all burned by glyphosate. ..
Elsa Nivia  (Rapalmira) Fumigation Induces Further Planting of Illicit Crops in Colombia
Dwana Ring ( NSAEHA) Pesticide Use - Incomplete Knowledge No Excuse 
Drug Policy Alliance What's Wrong with the Drug War -Environmental Consequences
Amazon Alliance Reviews by Independent Scientists and Advocacy Groups of the U.S. Department of State "Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication ofIllicit Coca in Colombia" September 4, 2002
Berne Declaration Time to phase out paraquat – 
John Madeley (RAP-AL) Syngenta’s controversial pesticide (abril 2002)
Sandra Erwards (Wola) Colombian Conflict Impacts Ecuador 
Kathryn Ledebur (Wola) Coca and Conflict in the Chapare 
Ben Kohl & Linda Farthing The Price of Success: Bolivia’s War against Drugs and the Poor 
PCS Borders Program Colombia Borders Reports
Testimony of Adam Isacson  CIP  Hearing of the House Government Reform Committee on “America's Heroin Crisis, Colombian Heroin and How We Can Improve Plan Colombia”, December 12, 2002
Coverage on chemical & biological agents
The Sunshine Project Agent Green: New US Bioweapons Threat on Colombia:   US Legislators Renew Calls for Bio-Attack on Illicit Crops

MOTHER EARTH

The land we live on Fernando Salazar: Map of Colombia's Basins
Maps World Wildlife Fund Andes
World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) Northern Andes Biodiversity Vision (pdf, 1Mb)
Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Colombia Reflections from Colombia A Decade after Rio (pdf, 1.8 Mb)
Chela Vazquez Wheat:  The next Engineered Crop? Top Wheat Exporters Regulate GM Products

WHO'S HALLUCINATING?

Daniel Samper Pizano  A Hallucinated Plan for Hallucinogenics (El Tiempo octubre 2 2002)
Prohibition: the little rabbit just wants to help

The little rabbit is running though the jungle when he sees a a giraffe rolling a joint of marihuana. The little rabbit stops and says “brother giraffe don’t smoke that joint. Why don’t you come along with me , you’ll see how healthy it is.” The giraffe thinks it over, throws away his joint and follows the little rabbit. 

They’re both running through the jungle when they discover an elephant who  is about to snort a line of coke. The little rabbit goes up to the elephant and says:  “Brother elephant, don’t snort that line, come run with us and you’ll see how much good it’ll do you ". The elephant thinks about it, throws away the mirror with the coke and decides to go along with them. 

All three of them are running when they come upon a lion who’s about to have a shot of heroin. The little rabit says to him: “Brother lion, throw away that trash and come run with us, you’ll see how good it is. The lion goes up to the little rabbit, and gives him a good whack. 

The other animals shocked ask the lion “Why did you do that? All the little rabbit wants to do is help us.” 

The lion answers: “I can't take it anymore, fucking rabbit makes me run around like an ass for hours every time he’s on Ecstasy!” 

OUT FROM THE SHADOWS:
Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century

ABRAÇO • Ale Yarok • Asociación de Reducción de Daños de la Argentina • Canadian Foundation for Drug PolicyCommon Sense for Drug PolicyCriminal Justice Policy Foundation • DEBED vzw • DieCannabisKampagneDrug Reform Coordination NetworkDrolegDrug Policy Forum of California • Drug Users Advocacy Group of Amsterdam • EfficacyFamilies and Friends for Drug Law ReformForum DrogheFuoriluogo • International Antiprohibitionist League • International Coalition of NGOs for Just and Effective Drug Policies • JES Rhein-Main • John Mordaunt Trust • Law Enforcement Against ProhibitionMild Green Media CentreMultidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic StudiesNarcoNews.com • National Association for Public Health Policy • Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation • November Coalition • Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist Action • Por Esto! ReconsiDer: Forum on Drug Policy • SOMA Associação Portuguesa Antiproibicionista • Students for Sensible Drug PolicyTransform - the Campaign for Effective Drug PolicyTransnational Radical PartyTrebach InstituteTri-State Drug Policy ForumUnitarian Universalists for Drug Policy ReformUniversidad Autónoma de YucatánVirginians Against Drug Violence


Meanwhile in Colombia, Alvaro Uribe’s government proposes incorporating prohibition directly into the constitution through a referendum which states the following:
16. AGAINST NARCOTICS TRAFFIC AND DRUG ADDICTION 

  QUESTION: TO PROTECT COLOMBIAN SOCIETY, PARTICULARLY ITS INFANTS AND YOUTH, AGAINST THE USE OF COCAINE, HEROIN, MARIHUANA, CRACK, ECSTASY AND ANY OTHER TYPE OF HALLUCINOGENIC, ¿DO YOU APPROVE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE? 

                     Amend article 16 of the Political Constitution, by adding the following text: 

To promote and protect an effective development of personality, the law will severely punish the planting, production, distribution, holding or sale of hallucinogenic or addictive substances, such as cocaine, heroin, marihuana, Ecstasy, or others, varying penalties according to the circumstances in which the offense is committed. The state shall develop and active prevention campaign against drug addiction and for the rehabilitation of addicts and will penalize with sanctions other than imprisonment, the consumption and holding of these products for personal use, insofar as it is deemed advisable in order to guarantee individual and collective rights, especially those of children and adolescents. 

                              YES      [   ]             NO              [  ]             BLANC VOTE [   ]

WE MUST ABSTAIN FROM VOTING THIS REFERENDUM SO AS NOT TO AID AND ABET THIS MOVE TO INCORPORATE URIBE'S REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAM INTO THE  1991 CONSTITUTION


FORUMS

Colombia Peace Association [contact] Conflict in Colombia: Repression, Resistance and the Chances for Peace
Forum for peace in London,  March 22 2003

 

FORCED ENTRY TO THE OFFICES OF THE PERMANENT PEACE ASSEMBLY FOR THE CIVIL SOCIETY

People's Growing Resentment
A Minute of Silence

We The People
Not In Our Name



THE COMPLEXITY OF COCA IN PERÚ


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