Subject: FW: Urgent Appeal on Fumigations in Colombia Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:21:38 -0500 Message-ID: <FEBBF51AFF7B8B4B8A2F32F6E63092AE02924C8D@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Drumm, Daniel L." <DRUMM@uwec.edu>
Subject: Urgent Appeal on Fumigations in Colombia
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#.20 - YEAR II - 25 May 2005
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NEWS FROM THE IAL :
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Colleagues of the IAL:
During the last couple of weeks, the Government of Colombia has
fumigated with gliphosphate and other toxic agents the Sierra Nevada of
Santa Marta, harming the kogui and wiwa people as well as the peasants
who live in the area, killing livestocks and destroying legal crops that
are crucial for their very existence. The fumigations have also caused
widespread health problems among the inhabitants of the region.
At the same time, the Council on Criminal Policies of Colombia met last
week to study the draft bill on coca introduced by myself, Pedro Arenas.
The Council issued a recommendation to the Congress not to approve the
law as it can open "a door for the Narco-traffickers". The proposed law
would allow the use, possession and consumption of coca leaf in his
natural stage, and when destined to the production of food, licit
industrial produces, ancestral and traditional practices as well as for
medical purposes.
According to President Uribe, the only possible policy on coca in
Colombia can be "fumigation, fumigation and fumigation" as he believes
that in these days the Narcos can harvest even more. In fact, in
addition to the $600 Million, the Colombian police recently asked for
another $143 to establish a mobile fumigation center. The Government
insists with its war on drugs, despite its failures collected since
1994, when the fumigations started and when in Colombia there only were
44,000 hectares. According to recent estimates of the CIA, the area
destined to illicit coca cultivation has increased to 114,000 hectares.
Help us alert the world on this dramatic situation.
PEDRO ARENAS
Member of Congress, Colombia
Sign the MamaCoca petition against fumigations in Colombia
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NEWS FROM THE WORLD :
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4080 17/05/2005
EUROPEAN UNION / FRANCE
CONSUMERS
LIBERATION
The publication of the National Health Vigilance Institute,
Epidémiologique Hebdomadaire, has published a 'typical' portrait of
the three-fourths of French cannabis users that are male: average age
twenty-two, started at fifteen, and gainfully employed -- only fourteen
per cent are out of work. Just over three quarters procure the stuff
from friends, most of the others grow it at home. Evening is favourite
turn-on time for ninety-three per cent.
4082 13/05/2005
SOUTH AMERICA / COLOMBIA
LEGALISATION
EL UNIVERSAL
FARC commander Raul Reyes supports fighting drug trafficking by
legalising drugs. In an interview he admitted that the territories
controlled by his fifteen thousand guerrillas 'the influence of drug
trafficking can't be ruled out'.
4085 15/05/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA -- Iowa
LEGALISATION
AP
George Pappas, a leader of the group Students for a Sensible Drug
Policy, has presented the city fathers of Iowa City with 2,800
signatures of university students supporting therapeutic use of
marijuana. The city council can now either adopt the resolution or call
for a referendum.
4081 16/09/1903
SOUTH AMERICA / BRAZIL
THE MARKET
JORNAL DA SAUDE
Twenty-two euros or twenty-eight dollars will buy a 'storm pill', a new
creation that probably consists of LSD crystals, amphetamines and small
amounts of rat poison. Effects are said to be like those of
methamphetamines but lasting for twenty-four hours.
4083 16/05/2005
THE WORLD AT LARGE
THE MARKET
ANSA
According to the 2004 report of UNODC on cannabis, hashish and
marijuana, Morocco is world hashish capital and Albania the main
distribution centre for Europe. The world market has 146 million
customers, the annual turnover exceeds nine billion euros = twelve
billion dollars.
4084 15/05/2005
ASIA / INDIA
NARCO TRAFFIC
THE TIMES OF INDIA
Hemchandra Khakrawal, Inspector of Indian Border Security Forces (BSF),
says that Nepalese Maoist rebels are trafficking in heroin and cannabis
to finance their guerrilla. American authorities have long maintained
this.
4088 12/05/2005
EUROPEAN UNION
POLITICS
ANSA
Javier Solana, spokesman for European Union foreign policy and security,
has announced that 'in Afghanistan the areas devoted to poppy production
have been drastically reduced' and that 'this constitutes a valid reason
for continuing aid to the Afghan government'. The European Union has
already allocated 3.8 billion euros = 4.9 billion dollars to this end
for the period 2002-06, of which one billion came from the European
Commission.
4087 13/05/2005
EUROPEAN UNION / AUSTRIA
PUBLIC HEALTH
DIE PRESSE (Vienna)
Regional MP Susanne Jerusalem of the Green Party has urged the creation
of three narco-rooms in Vienna that would offer addicts the possibility
of injection under medical supervision in clean and tranquil conditions.
Good results from such centres have been obtained in Switzerland,
Germany, Holland and Australia.
4086 15/05/2005
ASIA / AFGHANISTAN
ADDICTION
AP
The findings of the first research on drug abuse inside Afghanistan have
got under way. Three thousand addicts will be interviewed and hospital
and prison records examined. Patron and financiers are the UNODC and the
Afghan anti-drug ministry.
4089 18/05/2005
NORTH AMERICA / USA
THE WAR ON DRUGS
LA VOZ DE GALICIA / EL TIEMPO
The Bush administration seems intent on granting Colombia 553 million
dollars out of the 735 million set for the 2006 War on Drugs. The Andine
Anti-Drug Initiative, or IAA, will also involve Peru and Bolivia.
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has already requested a hundred and
thirty million dollars more.
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