(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); *NOTE* This isn't a completed scriuptual account of fact, it's only about halfway complete. It takes a ****ing long time to write all this shit up, so I'll finish it tomorrow, as I'm going to sleep now. All of this IS FACT, your government is not as innocent as it pretends to be, or you believe it to be. The United States is a colonialist, imperialist nation. It's facade is to hide behind a pseudo-democratic veil.

I strongly recommend you read this, it's incredibly interesting and all 100% true. It may be long, but it's valuable information to have.

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Columbian farmers don’t want to grow coca leaves but it’s the only economically viable option for relatively comfortable standards of living.

They convert the grown coca leaves into ‘coca paste’ which the traffickers buy from the farmers in exchange for cash.

The farmers are being asked to grow hundreds of kilograms of plantains, coca, and pineapples – being asked to transport it in vehicles they don’t have, on roads that aren’t there, to sell it in markets that they can’t get to – while having to compete with the global economic market.

The majority of the U.S war on cocaine is to spray defoliant on coca plantations, mostly in Southern Colombia, through aerial means.

From December 2000 to the 27th of January, the fumigations started. The US + Colombian government’s both said that 74,000 acres were fumigated. Coca production actually went UP 11%.

Coca farmer sells kilo of coca paste for $1000. This paste gets converted to cocaine on the streets and is sold for over $100,000.

In the past 20 years, fumigation of the crop in Peru and Bolivia has only resulted in moving it up and down the Andes.

The focus of the U.S Government’s anti-drug policy in Colombia is aerial fumigation of glyphosate by American contractors. Glyphosate is the most widely used weed killer in the world, legally used in the US.

Skin conditions are commonplace in farmers whose crops are subject to fumigation.
Even if it does destroy the coca crop, it still spreads to other crops, such as plantains etc. which are a main food supply for the peasant farmer’s family. It is a human rights violation.

The Monsanto chemical corporation was commissioned by the US state department to provide a defoliant that could be spread on large areas of forest. The result was ‘RoundUp Ultra’ – a modification of the commercially available version. They aren’t disclosing what the modifications are.

With rain and humidity, the deadly chemicals are running into the water supply of the entire Amazon basin, an issue that affects not only Colombia, but parts of Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

Early studies showed that ground up glyphosate interferes with enzyme systems in the thyroid, the brain, the liver and the pancreas. Another study shows that glyphosate caused tumours in the thyroid, pancreas and testicles of the male.

Just like Agent Orange used in Vietnam, they were told it was safe. Forty years later, it was discovered Agent Orange was lethal to those subjected to it. Might RoundUp Ultra prove to be the same story again? The people of Colombia have every right to be concerned.

The Rand corporation was commissioned by the military and US drug office to do a study called “Controlling Cocaine.” They tried a multitude of different methods to control it.

#1: Prevention and Treatment – By far the most cost effective (cheapest)
#2: Police measures at home – 7x more expensive.
#3: Border Interdiction – 11x more expensive.
#4: Out of Country Operation (Fumigation in Colombia) – 23x more expensive than Prevention and Treatment.

They are using, by far, the most expensive and potentially harmful method of control. Does this mean that preventing the drugs trade is not the US’ main intention?

The peasant farmers are the ones suffering from the hands of US intervention, while the real problem, the drug traffickers, are not subject to as rigorous control procedure..

The production of cocaine has doubled in the past 10 years, rendering the fumigation effectively useless.

The question is: Why spend billions of dollars on a proven failure and not on domestic prevention and rehabilitation programs?

Originally when the Colombian President came to the United States with the idea for Plan Colombia, it wasn’t primarily a military plan.- It was to find alternative crops and for economic development. However, when it got to the US, a heavy military stamp was put on it. Now, over the next few years, 80% of the 1.7 billion US dollars will go towards military purposes.

Plan Colombia was not at all discussed by the Colombian congress. All major decisions were made by the executive branch and by the US’ state department.

The priorities of the congress were money. One of the biggest debates for Plan Colombia was how many helicopters should be built in Texas, at their helicopter Textron, and how many should be built in Connecticut, at theirs? So – Rather than debating whether a military solution to the drug war was possible or what the implications for the people of Colombia would be, they were arguing over the money. Would the company in US state #1 get the money, or would in be in numbers #2 or #3 etc?



Much of the money is going to end up with the helicopter companies. Sikorski, the company which makes the Blackhawk helicopter, will be getting $250 million, and Bell Helicopters, which upgrades the Huey, will be getting almost $100 million. Remember this is ALL money that the US government receives from taxing you and your families.

The US hire private contractors to carry out missions in Colombia because they don’t have the support of the American people to actually use US military personnel in this foreign cleansing. They also pay the contractors using US tax dollars.

Colombia is the third largest recipient of US military aid, after Egypt and Israel.

Originating in colonial racism and oligarchy, the social conflict develops as Colombia evolves into an industrial society divided by a tiny rich elite and a poor working majority.

The 1948 assassination of a charismatic populist leader, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, lead to a social explosion that Colombians call ‘La Volencia’, or ‘The Violence.’
With the backing of the conservative government, anti-leftist landowners and industrialists sent hordes of thugs against students, workers and peasants, forcing them to the countryside, where they formed the first guerilla movements.

As the World seems on the verge of a global confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism, Washington makes it a priority to back the pro-Western Colombian establishment. They trained the military and paramilitary groups to try and wipe out the (now entrenched) leftist guerillas.

Despite millions of dollars spent, and the training of over 10,000 Colombian officers in counter-guerilla tactics, the Colombian military did not prevail. In fact, in the early 80s, the war got worse because narcotic traffickers became players in the conflict with more money and more sophisticated weapons.
In 1990, Pablo Escobar, the most elusive and influential cocaine trafficker of the time, blew up the Colombian police headquarters.
Even though officially aimed against drugs, Washington’s enormous infusion of arms and equipment to the Colombian military has been catalysing a renewed assault on the leftist rebels.

TO BE CONTINUED WHEN I WAKE UP TOMORROW

WOW huge thread you wrote there and nice post keep up the good work

habsfan247 groaned this thread. How can you groan me for bringing knowledge on an interesting and controversial subject? You, sir, are an ignorant fool.

Also the original farms growing the coca leaves only get paid like 20 or so cents for a pound. They are paid very poorly if you compare what the dealers and the middlemen get for selling it on the streets.

interesting subject, i read the whole thing, now i'm waiting to read the other half.

I would like a tl;dr version please. I +Rep'd you for all your effort though.

great post, interesting. cant wait for the rest.

I want to read the second part.

I think your opinion is biased. Most of the coca farmers own massive plantations, which are controlled by the drug cartels... Their not little farmers just trying to make a living off an illicit drug. It's impossible, the only way to make bank off of cocaine is to own massive plantations.. What you failed to mention is that: IT IS ILLEGAL TO POSSESS OR DISTRIBUTE MORE THAN 1 GRAM OF COCAINE. That statement right there negates your whole argument. How can you defend law breakers who in turn, fund these drug cartels and in turn kill innocent civilians and commit terrorist acts that leave Mexico near collapse? You're ****ing crazy.