Sanho Tree: on the impact of SouthCom, "Plan Columbia", WHINSEC & 'DrugWar'

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from 5pmMountain/7pmEastern tonight, on a warm-up New Year, The Jeff Farias Show, renowned scholar & activist Sanho Tree will be discussing Plan Columbia:

• the social foreign & domestic impacts of the War on Drugs
  
• Monsanto's role in the eradication of cocoa farmers in thinly veiled off-shore deforestation contracts & forcible foreign implementation of industrial strength RoundUp: contamination of pure water's impact on: health, botanical diversity & economic oppression
• dehumanizing civil, labour & human rights violations<*>decimation of sovereign economic alternatives which leads to foreign control & resource exploitation
• training, media & financial support of 'anti-labour' (let's call them 'Socialist Anti-American NarcoTerrorists!') torture & deathsquads
• First Nations' political, cultural & spiritual suppression<*>the implications of SouthCom's bases, official military 'advisors', domestic militarized tactical units & mercenaries

Jeff will be taking your calls: feel free to dial in & state your opinions & research to promote a truly international perspective on the impacts of drug criminalization & enforcement of US Foreign Policies!


Translated from Spanish:

U.S. extend benefits to Andean
Editorial, BBC NEWS, Last Updated: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - 00:47 GMT

The House of Representatives of the United States on Monday approved the renewal for one year a series of trade benefits for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia but was excluded.

The law houses more than 6,000 Andean products entering the U.S. without tariffs.

The Andean Trade Preference Act of 1974 (ATPDA, by its initials in English) houses more than 6,000 products in this South American region to enter the U.S. without tariffs, and in the case of Colombia benefits more than 1,000 products representing 92% of Colombian exports to the U.S. market.

The agreement also covers articles of clothing assembled in one or more beneficiary countries, made with fabrics or regional components.

This Act provides benefits similar to those of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP, by its initials in English) that gives to 131 developing countries preferential access to U.S. by not requiring the payment of tariffs on nearly 3,500 products.

Both schemes due on December 31. The Senate is expected to vote during the week.

Bolivia excluded
The ATPDA initially included Bolivia, until the government of former President George W. Bush decided their exclusion, citing lack of cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking.

The administration of President Barack Obama and the lawmakers also understand that Bolivia does not cooperate with Washington in combating the production and trafficking of illegal drugs.

However, not everyone feels that way. Sanho Tree, an expert on U.S. drug policy, told the BBC that President Evo Morales has had "success" where the DEA, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, had failed.

"The government of Bolivia under Morales has increased seizures of cocaine. Has far exceeded the previous governments that were allied to the U.S. and were very cooperative in the war against drugs," said Tree.

Let's bear in mind, that the same year Time magazine put Morales up as a hero on cocoa-based national reforms, Bush declared a DrugWar on Bolivia in retribution for their stance on SouthCom & the ALBA nations' economic policies.
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