US Blithely attacking Indigenous Again with Chemical Agents

[Ichingcarpenter]

US Herbicides Exact High Toll on Indigenous Populations
By Thomas D. Williams
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Saturday 02 February 2008

Despite years of ongoing, critical public health controversies in Colombia and Ecuador over the US-assisted aerial herbicide spraying of coca and poppy crops while trying to reduce illegal cocaine and heroin production, US State Department officials are pursuing that very same spraying strategy today.

In fact, a couple of months ago, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's administration temporarily cast aside the latest of several State Department exhortations to begin massive herbal spraying operations on poppy crops producing heroin there.

Colombian aerosol dusting of a mix of Roundup Ultra, Cosmo-Flux and other plant-penetrating agents began seven years ago. (In 2006 alone, the United Nations reported the spraying of approximately 172,025 hectares of coca crops, producing cocaine. That equals a bit over 664 square miles.)

In the meantime, untold thousands of Colombians and Ecuadorians have become sick from the blended chemical spray. Studies have shown the environmental dangers of inhalation and skin and eye saturation of the floating mist. And critically valuable maize, yucca and plantains have been destroyed in large swaths of the fertile country.

For years, DynCorp International of Fort Worth, Texas, has had the lucrative US multimillion-dollar annual contract for Colombian aerial spraying operations.>>>>snip
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020208Y.shtml

[madrchsod]

1. agent orange for the south americans

the war on drugs goes on and on....100s of billions and nothing has changed

[maddezmom]

2. is there a link?

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. sorry updated

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. USA continues it's murderous attack on the planet - people, plants, whatever.

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USA must know somewhere in the back of it's diseased mind that it will pay for it's transgressions

Or is it totally stupid?

[Demeter]

5. 90% Totally Stupid

The other 10% desperately looking for a way out--refugees in their own country.