SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON COLOMBIA

The "War on Drugs"

General Information

• The War on Drugs from the Supply Side, July 1998

U.S. Involvement

• How We Fight a Losing War, by Jorge Castañeda (September 1999)
  
• DEA Agent: How the CIA runs the War on Drugs, from Cambio
     Part 1, Summer 1995
     Part 2, April 1996
  

Older Articles

• Drug War Hypocrisy: The Deadly Mathematics of the Cocaine Equation, Commentary by Juan Salas in El Tiempo
• America's Secret War, from Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly (August 1996)
• A Call for Prudence (August 1996)
• Media Focus on CIA's Cocaine Links Is Long Overdue, by Norman Solomon (August 1996)
• The Cocaine Conundrum, by Alan Weisman (September 1995)

 

The War on Colombia's Environment

Herbicides in the 'Drug War'

• RAPAL Awards anti-pesticide research, 6/1999
• Drug Eradication Program Fails, Associated Press, 8/16/98

Tebuthiuron ("Spike")

• Herbicides versus Market Forces, The Economist, 4/11/98
• Jungles face U.S. 'toxic rain', The Guardian, 4/20/98
• Dow Chemical joins the effort to spike Tebuthiuron in Colombia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/6/98
• Colombia denies report it will test herbicide, Dallas Morning News, 6/28/98

Oil

• Five arrested in protest against Occidental

Plan Pacifico

• The Colombia Plan Pacifico: Sustaining the Unsustainable by Jon Barnes (abridged), 1993
• Conservation by Consensus by Sarita Kendall, 1994

Paramilitaries

• The Paramilitarization of Urabá by Daniel Bland, Colombia Hoy

 

Other Articles

• The Displaced People of Colombia
• El Papel de CSN-Que Dice Los Colombianos
• Umaña murdered
• Good summary article (October 1997, from the National Catholic Reporter)
• Chocó
• BP in Colombia
• Gloria Cuartas
• Colombia Bulletin--CSN's Quarterly Magazine
• Due Process for Jose Antonio Lopez and others; Oppose Faceless Justice
• Dirty War in Uraba; Paramilitaries Surround Apartadó
• For a Special Rapporteur for Colombia
• Students Dream of a Better Future
• We Mourn These Fine Colombians
• Monthly updates
• Books & Reports

 

 

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