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Better Living Through Fumigation
(Kevin Nelson, Alternet.org, August 14, 2001)
The New York Times reports: A Colombian judge ruled Monday that the U.S.-backed fumigation of drug crops could resume in Indian lands in the Amazon. . . . Gen. Gustavo Socha, chief of the Colombian anti-narcotic police, said Monday's ruling affirmed the government's claim that the fumigation flights are not harmful. "They don't cause any harm to the health of people or the environment," Socha said. U.S. officials say the herbicide, manufactured by the U.S. company Monsanto and sold as common weedkiller under the name "Roundup," is safe.
[Comment: First of all, note that the judge OKed spraying on Indian lands, not on the property of whites. Also note the "Roundup is safe" comment. Yesterday on NPR a U.S. Congressman said the same thing citing the fact that "after a rain it is all gone." . . . What morons they are. Where do they think these toxic chemicals "go" after a rain?]
British chemical company ICI has pulled out of Plan Colombia's controversial fumigation campaign. The firm was supplying ingredients for toxic chemicals used in the U.S.-funded aerial spraying of coca-growing regions, but abandoned the scheme amid health concerns. Local hospitals in the Putumayo region, where the coca fumigation is taking place, have reported increases in skin rashes, diarrhea and stomach aches.

posted by LoZo 12:55 PM