Aerial Spraying

juancegomez says on Nov 11, 2005, 13:40:

.... A video on a subject that is both worrying and interesting but, like almost everything in the Narconews website, it's far from telling the whole story, or even from having true scientific validity (though it may be presenting information that will be useful in a real and comprehensive investigation, which is what both governments have agreed to, even if they are taking their sweet time to put it in practice ).

Funny how the video even forgets (surely not innocently) to address facts that the Ecuadorian media itself doesn't dare deny (the FARC being influent and present in the border areas, on both sides of the line...what about the FARC's open and hidden violations of Ecuador's sovereignity and that of their citizens, are they irrelevant to Narconews? Yup)

I do agree with the Ecuadorian protests against fumigation because I don't accept the way in which we are being practically forced to employ such a counterproductive and dangerous (see the health issues et al) method of fighting the drug war (lest the U.S. decertify us and boycott us to starvation, which is what will happen if we stop fumigating unilaterally...UNLESS there's a radical change of positions in Washington itself, and/or enough global pressure in that direction, which isn't nearly the case)...

At the same time, I don't agree with the way in which the situation in Colombia at large is being presented on Narconews, nor with the rest of their interests, biases and methods.

0 funny, 0 helpful.