Cocaine Importing Agency

Pegasus: ... North's Enterprise not only set up the cocaine factories and ran the Colombian cartels, but was also responsible for masterminding the massive shipments of narcotics into the US. Significantly, he is not alone in making these accusations. A number of those involved in Col. North's operations have subsequently come forward and spilled the beans. Almost all of these whistleblowers have been hounded and imprisoned. Some have died...

Don't Ask, Don't Tell by Martha Honey


San Jose Mercury News Dark Alliance series that broke the story

the cia-cocaine connection and allegations by a former LAPD narc

Colombia





Quitarle agua al pez -- draining the sea to kill the fish. The thirty year guerilla war in Colombia has been fought over oil and gold. Inspired by Cuba, Marxist rebels seek to overthrow the Colombian government and nationalize those resources. But instead of attacking the guerillas directly, the government's strategy has been to use paramilitary death squads to make examples of civilian guerilla "sympathizers". Similarly, coca eradication programs, paid for by the US, target rebel controlled areas, which produce only 14% of the coca grown in Colombia, although these areas encompass almost half of the country. There are reports that food crops in these regions are being eradicated as well.

Both the guerillas and the paramilitaries protect coca growers and cocaine laboratories, which they tax to fund their operations. Our support of one side or the other will not reduce the production of coca. The US military assistance to Colombia protects oil, gold, and other business interests, and has been deceptively sold to the American public under the guise of the war on drugs.



Counterinsurgency in Colombia summary of recent news articles

Democracy, Human Rights, and Militarism in the War on Drugs in Latin America

No Human Being is Disposable & The Culture of Fear by Noam Chomsky

Colombian Human Rights Abuses Tied to School of Americas Graduates

Covert Action Quarterly -- CIA Training Manuals Declassified


Noticias de Colombia * El Espectador (Medellin) * Cambio 16 (Bogota) * El Tiempo (Bogota) * Cromos (Bogota) * Semana (Bogota) * el Colombiano (Medellin) * el Mundo (Medellin) * el Pais (Cali) * el Heraldo (Barranquilla)

Colombia Support Network campaign to remove the Colombian military aid from Sec. 201 of the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act


Colombia Support Network * School of the Americas Watch
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia * Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional

Mexico

Unmasking the Drug War
The indigenous insurgents in Chiapas are not suspected of participation in the narcotics trade

Frente Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
Chiapas Alert Network
Chiapas-l mailing list
Chiapas-95 gopher archive

Casablanca: Sting operations are regarded as illegal entrapment under Mexican law. In response to an American undercover operation that led to the indictment of 26 Mexican bankers on charges of money laundering, President Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico criticized the United States for acting as if it were "entitled to violate another country's laws for the sake of enforcing its own."

Undercover operations involve deception and ethically questionable tactics. By creating an artificial criminal milieu and holding out temptations for criminal opportunities which do not otherwise exist, we are not punishing crimes but testing people and punishing those too weak to pass the test. Such a pro-active approach to law enforcement; punishing crimes before they occur, in order to prevent them, is contrary to the idea of a free society.

Stop the Drug War


It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

US Supreme Court, 339 US 382,447



Internet tools for drug war activists

The Drugnews Index is a database of thousands of drug war news articles sent in by volunteer newshawks. The Media Awareness Project is an associated letter to the editor campaign.


email address lists -- harness the full power of the internet. This webpage contains lists of thousands of email addresses of US senators & representatives, of state legislators, of British MP's, and of "letter to the editor" addresses for newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations. They are given in lists that can be copied and pasted into the blind copy field (bcc) of an email program, so that letters to the editor can be sent out en masse, like press releases. Future projects will include more international coverage, and fax broadcast lists. I could use some help with all of this.


the Pruneyard Decision (US) guarantees your right to petition in shopping malls

Some webpages by internet activists

The Levellers are tracking medical marijuana initiatives across the country

The Medical Marijuana Archives

The Action Class for Freedom of Therapeutic Cannabis

The Penn State University Smoke Outs

"From Police Power to Police State" taken from the title of this excellent, and terrifying book, "Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State," by Richard Lawrence Miller, Praeger Publishers, ISBN 0-275-95042-5. Map of Colombia is from the voces webpage. General McCaffrey appears courtesy of USA Today.

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