and straight back to the big annual US taxpayer-financed Colombian gov't military aid, which already is well over $9 billion since 2000.
Making Colombia "great" again by reinstating lethal doses of industrial strength Monsanto's Roundup which has always drifted all over the place, destroying crops in ordinary Colombian farmers' fields, devastating the domestic livestock, and fish, birds, other animals throughout the areas.
Images created by Colombian school children when their teachers assigned them the project of showing the effects of US-financed aerial spraying, claimed to be destroying "coca" planted in Colombia, as it has been for thousand of years, just as it has throughout the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile....
Bush Policy of Spraying Poison on Children
redstatehatemonitor
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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 6:38 AM CST
School children from both Colombia and neighboring Ecuador actually drew these pictures included in this diary. The United States government's primary strategy for combating the narcotics industry and the leftist FARC guerillas that control an area of Colombia the size of SWITERLAND involves aerial crop spraying with a deadly poison sold on the market as Roundup weedkiller. The spray not only kills coca plants, but any other, legal, crops in the vicinity. Sadly it also kills livestock and far worse it has also killed many children.
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Over 2.5 million people have now fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms. These internal refugees, unemployed, living in squatters' communities in the cities to which they have fled, are the principal result of the war so far. Many Colombians believe that they are its intended result, that the real aim of the war against insurgents and against drugs is really to get small farmers off their land in order to make room for development. Under Colombia's coca fields is oil. Paramilitaries terrorize people into leaving their land, and labor organizers are the group most targeted for assassination. More than 3,000 have been killed in the past 15 years.
Colombia is a prime example of U.S. Military clout being used to serve the interests of big oil corporations . Plan Colombia is real bad news for the poor of Colombia because it increases the level of terror in their country. The Whitehouse fails to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence is the government of Colombia and the right wing paramilitary forces which receive aid and full cooperation from Colombia's army.
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The combination is thought to increase the danger to animal and human life. Even the regular formula sold in the U.S. Carries a label warning against possible damage to aquatic organisms, pets, grazing animals, rabbits, tortoises, fowl--and people. The label warns that one must not eat the fruit or nuts of trees that have been in the area sprayed with the chemical for 21 days. But these safety standards are not applied to the aerial spraying in Colombia.
More:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/02/27/464886/-Bush-Policy-of-Spraying-Poison-on-Children
Drawing by Colombian children in Putumayo of the before
and after effects of fumigation on their lands
(photo courtesy of Witness for Peace-Colombia).
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