Spraying Blitz Cripples Colombian Drug Crop |
Posted by FoM on July 30, 2001 at 08:10:11 PT By Juan O. Tamayo Source: Miami Herald It is harvest time in the mint-green hills of southern Putumayo state, the epicenter of Colombia's coca cultivation. But coca farmers such as Gabriel Nieto are in no mood to celebrate. The price of what everyone here calls simply ``the merchandise'' has plunged following a U.S.-backed aerial defoliation campaign in December and January that turned huge expanses of coca bushes into dead brown stalks. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
Comment #9 posted by freedom fighter on July 31, 2001 at 17:44:51 PT |
Just recently Colorado has the biggest bust ever.. 250 pounds of snow.. price of buying a 8ball is the same as ever.. ff [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #8 posted by Dr. Ganj on July 30, 2001 at 18:18:48 PT |
The price is low, and there's plenty around. That tells me all I need to know. No matter what these pigs try and do to stop the flow of drugs, it will never work. With that fact in hand, what should be done? You bet, decriminalize cocaine. If people want to snort coke, let them. We have no business spraying poison that could affect other plants, and the health of innocent people. What's the alternative? Keep pretending the U.S. can stop world drug production? Yeah, right.
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Comment #7 posted by jorma nash on July 30, 2001 at 15:17:25 PT |
the NarcoJihad considers it a beneficial side effect. since you are already ingesting moral poison, adding a little physical poison serves you right, they figure. Just like criminalizing bongs or vaporizers. listen to the contempt with which they dismiss [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #6 posted by Rambler on July 30, 2001 at 12:14:55 PT |
Right on Dr Nemo.The papers,and the journalists are on the payroll.The money comes from the various black holes of the ondcp and friends.Did anyone seriously believe that the ondcp stopped funding propaganda after their exposure in Salon? [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on July 30, 2001 at 10:40:06 PT:
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Friends, it would seem that the Miami Herald has pimped itself to the DrugWarriors: http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10418.shtml And here is Mr. tamayo's email address: The question is, has has Mr. Tamayo actually set foot on Colombian soil? ? Has anyone from the Miami Herald done so? Or are are they merely parroting an AP or Reuters McJournalism designed by a former(?) CIA mouthpiece? Have a look, here: The CIA CIA:The Use of Journalists from the above link: "For roughly ten years, between 1967 and 1977, Americans learned something of their secret history. From the perspective of twenty additional years, the results were mixed and much remains secret. But it's scary to think of where we might be now if the counterculture had never happened. During the last half of those ten years, sandwiched between Watergate coverage on one end, and Congressional investigations of the CIA on the other, the media showed some interest in examining their own intelligence connections. The first shoe was dropped by Jack Anderson in late August, 1973, when he revealed that Seymour Freidin, head of the Hearst bureau in London, I wonder if Mr. Tamayo is "double-dipping" like so many of his journalistic friends have, at the CIA's watering hole? [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #4 posted by dddd on July 30, 2001 at 09:14:37 PT |
I've wondered the same thing about contaminated cocaine, but I think that the process that goes into producing cocaine would quite likely rinse off the glyphosphate. Sam Adams is right on about the propaganda thing.It's the [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #3 posted by FoM on July 30, 2001 at 09:00:29 PT |
I was wondering if people got contaminated Cocaine here in the states what harm can be done by ingesting Glyphosate. I wondered about that and Paraquat years ago when they were spraying marijuana with that substance in Mexico. I sure hope they stopped that. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #2 posted by Sam Adams on July 30, 2001 at 08:57:50 PT |
wow......pure propaganda. Really scary to see this stuff. Let's see if it engendered the sought-after reaction, "Gee, we really hit those cocaine cartels hard. That'll really knock down the amount of cocaine in the world. Good job, US military!" Too bad the reality is that after year 1 of Plan Columbia, the total amount of coca harvested increased 11 percent. The year before, it had increased 22 percent. We may have ever-so-slightly slowed the INCREASE in production for one year. So even though some crops in some areas were killed, some buyers are scared and some labs are shutting down, all our efforts are like firing a kid's slingshot at a charging grizzly bear. Which makes this yellow journalism article a SHAMEFUL piece of propaganda. It's like the rest of the Western world is moving forward and we're moving backward, culturally. The plan is working perfectly....keep everyone dumbed-down, kids watching MTV, mesmerized by big tits and trying to imitate rappers, Mom & Dad working harder & harder to buy the stuff they need at WalMart, Home Depot, and Circuit City...then the government can keep growing out of control each year, and law enforcement and the military can go use their fancy toys on poor brown people in the U.S. and around the world! And just pay for some moron to sit in the White House to preside over the whole thing! Yippee! [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on July 30, 2001 at 08:39:12 PT:
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The price of cocaine on the streets in the USA will stay low. Overall cocaine production may decrease in some areas only to be replaced with more than enough in other areas. The spraying will not stop the Colombian insurgency or solve the issues. Poor farmers will suffer and die. American corporations will continue to profit. Plan Colombia is a dangerous and expensive farce. [ Post Comment ] |
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