Links to documents and publications on the Fumigations

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Nov 17 2005

Links to documents and publications on the Fumigations

On Fumigations in general

Going to Extremes. The US-Funded Aerial Eradication Program in Colombia by Betsy Marsh, Latin American Working Group, March 2004 [PDF document]
Spraying massive amounts of herbicide on the Colombian countryside in an attempt to eradicate illicit crops is a perilous and futile tactic. Incidents of adverse health effects and contamination of livestock and water resources continue to be reported. According to EPA modeling, the spraying is significantly damaging non-target vegetation, and likely causing adverse impacts to wildlife from loss of habitat - in one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Without having conducted comprehensive health and environmental assessments, such as those that would be completed for a spray program of this magnitude in the United States, the US government is carrying out an experiment on Colombian soil with unknown human health and ecological repercussions. The human impacts of this program, however, are abundantly clear - thousands of farming families are losing food and cash crops as well as their livelihoods, the majority of whom are not offered short-term aid, compensation, or viable alternative sources of income. The brutal effects of this policy are even more tragic when considering that the spray program will, in all likelihood, have no sustained impact on global coca production and cocaine use in the United States. US funding for the aerial eradication program in Colombia should be suspended and redirected towards drug treatment programs at home and alternative development and other more humane and effective drug policies abroad.

Ecuador Gets Colombia's Drift. Aerial Eradication of Coca Crops on the Border. Special Update: Ecuador by Sandra G. Edwards, June 2004 [PDF document]

US Government on Fumigations

Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca and Opium Poppy in Colombia Certification to Congress on issues related to the aerial eradication of illicit crops in Colombia 15 December 2003

Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia Memorandum of Justification Concerning the Aerial Eradication of Coca and Opium Poppy in Colombia, December 2003

Updated Report on Chemicals Used in the Colombian Aerial Eradication Program December 2003. (This document highlights the EPA recommendations in its September 2002 report.)

Andean Counterdrug Initiative United States Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Congressional Justification (Washington: Department of State: June 2003)

Report on Certain Counternarcotics Activities in Colombia Washington: Department of State, April 2003)

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (Washington: Department of State, March 2003)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 27 September 2002 (Volume 67, Number 188) Glyphosate, Pesticide Tolerances (Informe de la EPA)

Report on Aerial Eradication Program State Department, 5 September 2002

Memorandum of Justification Concerning Determination on Health, Environmental, and Legal Aspects of Coca Eradication in Colombia Report on Issues Related to the
Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia (Released by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) September 2002

Response from EPA Assistant Administrator Johnson to Secretary of State 19 August 2002 [TEXT document]

US Official Defends Aerial Drug Eradication in Colombia (Statement by Rand Beers) 16 August 2001

Statement of Rand Beers Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, 28 February 2001

State Department Report to Congress on effects on human health and safety of the herbicides used in the Colombian aerial spray program 23 January 2001

CIA Intelligence Report Plan Colombia's Potential Impact on the Andean Cocaine Trade: An Examination of Two Scenarios. DCI Crime and Narcotics Center, 19 September 2000

PLEASE START HERE !

Environmental Proection Agency (EPA) - April 11, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 70)
Glyphosate, Pesticide Tolerances (Informe de la EPA)

Scientifique Studies on the impacts of the glyphosate
(Studies in favor)

Glyphosate, pesticide tolerance. This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of glyphosate in or on animal feed, nongrass group; grass, forage, fodder and hay, group and adds the potassium salt of glyphosate to the tolerance expression. Monsanto Company requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. September 27, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 188)

Supuestos efectos del glifosato en la salud humana - Estudio financiado por la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Colombia, y realizado por la Clínica de Toxicología Uribe Cualla. Diciembre de 2001 {PDF document]

A study of the health complaints related to aerial eradication in Colombia - Department of Nariño, Municipality of El tablón de Gómez - Final Report, Camilo Uribe, Sep 2001 [PDF document]

Monsanto Summary of Human Risks Assessments and Safety Evaluation on Glyphosate (and Round Up Herbicide) - "Safety Evaluation ans Risk Assesment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyohosate, For Humans" By Gary Williams, Robert Kroes and Ian C. Munro, published in Regulatory Toxicology and Farmacology (2000) Vol 31) [PDF document]

(Studies questionning glyphosate)

"Evaluando las fumigaciones con ciencia, conciencia y corazón", Elsa Nivia - analysis on the fumigations. December 2003

Daños genéticos en la frontera de Ecuador por las fumigaciones del Plan Colombia, November 2003 - Study by Acción Ecológica on the impact of the fumigations on the border of Ecuador and Colombia [MS Word document]

Science and Environmental Health Network, Boston Medical Center, Boston MA, Dr. Ted Schettler - EPA's assessment fails to provide information essential for conducting the requested risk assessment. Sep 2003 [PDF document]

Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS), Warner House, Hampshire College, Amherst MA - (Comments on the materials that the State Department presented to Congress on September 4, 2002 in reference to the assessments provided by US EPA. It states that the State Department has failed to determine the absence of unreasonable risks to or adverse effects on human health or the environmental associated with the chemical used in the crop eradication campaigns.) September 19, 2002 [PDF document]

University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Report, September 18, 2002 - (On the inadequacies of the EPA certification) [PDF document]

Critique of the "Nariño Health Report: Health Effects of the Spray Campaigns in Colombia, Rachel Massey, Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS), March 7, 2002 [PDF document]

Las fumigaciones aéreas sobre cultivos ilícitos sí son peligrosas - Algunas aproximaciones Por Elsa Nivia, febrero 2002

Study by Acción Ecológica, junio 2001

Summary of Elsa Nivia's (Colombia Regional Coordinator, Pesticide Action Network, Cali, Colombia) conclusions on the effects of the glyphosate. March 8, 2001

Revisión Causas Consultas Valle Guamuez. Por Dyva Revelo Calderón, febrero 2001. Swedish study (June 1999) makes a relation between glyphosate and cancer

National Pesticide Telecommunications Network, Oregon State University (on the EPA studies in 1993 indicationg the low toxicitu of the glyphosate) [PDF document]

(Studies in process)

OEA/CICAD began a study on aerial fumigation in Colombia, February, 2004

Statistics of Illicit Crops

Gobierno de Colombia, Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes, Proyecto Sistema Integrado de Monitoreo de Cultivos Ilícitos -SIMCI- Estadísticas

Estadísticas de SIMCI sobre cultivos por departamentos (1999-2003)

Fumigations and Displacements

Marcela Ceballos, CODHES, Plan Colombia: Contraproductos y Crisis Humanitaria (Bogotá: Consultancy for Human Rights and Internal Displacement, October 2003): 26 [PDF document]

Displacements in the South-Western departments of Putumayo, Nariño and Valle del Cauca (2003)

Plan Colombia: Contraproductos y Crisis Humanitaria - Fumigaciones y Desplazamiento en la Frontera con Ecuador [PDF document]

Actions of the Civil Society against the Fumigations

Amicus Curiae - Fumigación de cultivos de uso ilícito y vulneración de derechos humanos en la frontera colombo-ecuatoriana

- CODHES Julio 2004 [PDF document]

Fumigación = Miseria - LAS MUJERES PAZ HAREMOS - Movimiento de mujeres contra la guerra - "Campaña por la desmilitarización y recuperación de la vida civil" - noviembre 2003

Demanda a la Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes y a la Dirección Antinarcóticos de la Policía Nacional a cargo del Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo contra las fumigaciones [PDF document]

La crisis cafetera y las posibles fumigaciones en el departamento de Caldas - resolución Defensorial No. 28 - Mayo 21 de 2003) [PDF document]

Revisión Tutela fumigación (carta de Alberto Rueda), abril 2003

Concedido amparo constitucional a campesinos de la frontera (Ecuador), enero de 2003

Resolución Defensorial Nacional No. 26 - derechos humanos y derecho internacional humanitario en el marco del conflicto armado y de las fumigaciones de los cultivos de coca en el departamento del Putumayo. La Defensoría solicita al Consejo Nacional de Estupefacientes una suspensión de las fumigaciones en el Putumayo hasta tanto no se revisen ciertos aspectos que estaban perjudicando a la población - cctubre 9 de 2002 [PDF document]

Informe de la Misión de Verificación de Acción Ecológica, ALDHU y otros (oct 2002) sobre impacto en Ecuador de las fumigaciones [PDF document]

WWF on the certification report of the State Department, September 2002 [PDF document]

Memorando de (Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente) AIDA al Congreso de EEUU sobre el informe del Dept de Estado respecto a las fumigaciones, 23 de septiembre, 2002 [PDF document]

Doc de evaluación de las fumigaciones de las Organizaciones Rurales (ONIC, PCN, Fensuagro-CUT) - Agosto 2002 [PDF document]

Carta del Defensor colombiano Eduardo Cifuentes al Ministro de Justicia respecto al programa de fumigaciones aéreas - Julio 22, 2002

Compliance with Fumigation Conditions in the Andean Counterdrug Initiative Memo from four NOGs, April 10, 2002

Compliance with Fumigation Conditions in the Andean Counterdrug Initiative, April 10, 2002 (Wola, Lawg, Amazon Alliance, CIP)

Letter by the Senators Paul Wellstone (D - Minnesota) y Russell Feingold (D-Wisconsin), questionning the aerial sprays, Marzo 22, 2002

Carta de los senadores colombianos Juan Manuel Ospina y Rafael Orduz al secretario general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU), Kofi Annan en la cual solicitan que se haga una revisión total de la política antidrogas que se desarrolla en Colombia

Aerial Herbicide Spraying Violates Human Rights of Peasants and Indigenous Communities in Colombia and Ecuador - Earthjustice Urges the UN Commission on Human Rights to Act, January 15th, 2002

Question of the violation of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world - Written statement submitted by Earthjustice Legal Defence Fund, a non-governmental organizations in special consultative status [15 January 2002] Spraying toxic herbicides on rural Colombian and Ecuadorian communities

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) denonces the wrong conclusions taken by others from the EPA study on glyphosate [PDF document]

Letter to Colin Powell from 62 organizations (Witness for Peace) December 7, 2001

Letter from World Wildlife Fund Regarding Hebicide Spray in Colombia, November 21, 2001

Congressional Reps. Conyers, Schakowsky, and McKinney host Capitol Hill briefing with Colombian Government Representatives. Opposition to aerial fumigation and need for alternative development to be discussed." August 1, 2001

Luego de una tutela presentada por la OPIAC (Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonía Colombiana), un juez ordena suspender las fumigaciones, 27 de julio 2001

Statement by Rep Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia), July 26, 2001

Carta a Mary Robinson, Alta Comisionada de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos denunciando que las fumigaciones son una violación a los Derechos Humanos. 17 de julio 2001

Propuesta de Contralor Ossa Escobar para una veeduría internacional, julio 18, 2001

Auditoría especial a la política de erradicación de cultivos - Documento de la Contraloría, julio de 2001

En febrero de 2001, la Defensoría emitió una Resolución sobre el impacto de las fumigaciones en proyectos de desarrollo alternativo [PDF document]

Impacto de las fumigaciones en 11 proyectos de desarrollo alternativo en Putumayo - resolución defensorial No. 4, feb 12 de 2001 [PDF document]

Fumigaciones y Proyectos de Desarrollo Alternativo en el Putumayo - Informe Defensorial No. 1, febrero 9 de 2001 [PDF document]

Ver más Informes y Resoluciones Defensoriales relacionados con el programa de erradicación aérea en el sitio web de la Defensoría

Informe de la defensoría del pueblo - Colombia. Estrategia de erradicación aéra de cultivos ilícitos, Amicus Curiae

[Conaie] APDH interpone denuncia en la CIDH-OEA contra gobiernos de Colombia y de EEUU por efectos del Plan Colombia en Ecuador

Alaska Community Action on Toxics - Facts about Glyphosate [PDF document]

Ag/Bio Co Proposal
In March of 1999, a Bozeman company calling itself "Ag/Bio Co" sent a proposal to the Florida drug czar's office. The proposal outlines a plan to create and disperse a killer fungus called fusarium oxysporum designed to wipe out cannabis, opium, and coca plants. Montana NORML has obtained a copy of the proposal.

target="_blank">Montana NORML Sues University To Get Info On Fungus Research, Marihuana News,
October 14, 1999.

Killer Fungus Touted To Eradicate State Pot Crop, The St. Petersburg Times, July 17, 1999.
Language: English

Beers Fumigated in Deposition,
Documents on Lawsuit (Narco News | US Fumigation)

Los impactos de las fumigaciones
en la frontera ecuatoriana, Acción Ecológica - Junio 2001 [MS Word Document]

Artículos y análisis de prensa sobre Fumigaciones

Comisión internacional sobre efectos de las fumigaciones fue hostigada por el ejército

La fumigación, versiones y realidades, Alvaro Camacho Guizado

War on coca poisons Colombia - Sierra Magazine

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