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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Latin America,
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia

In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. This marks one of his only extended televised interviews in the United States since he became Bolivia's first indigenous president.
Highlights from the interview:

Morales' rise to power began with his leadership of the coca growers union and his high-profile opposition to the U.S.-funded eradication of the coca crop. He helped to lead the street demonstrations by Indian and union groups that toppled the country's last two presidents.

On Tuesday, Morales spoke for the first time before the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He vowed to never yield to U.S. pressure to criminalize coca production. During his speech he held up a coca leaf even though it is banned in the United States.

Mexico Lawmakers Work To Revive Drug Bill By Ioan Grillo
CN Source: Associated Press June 15, 2006 Mexico City 
Mexican lawmakers are working to revive their bill decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin, and hope to override a veto if necessary, saying the reform will help curb drug-related violence that has killed more than 600 people this year.

"Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience ... Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 1950

Drug warriors use ecocides & herbicide 19 Jun, 1999

Kill the earth, kill the plants, kill the people...

Mama Coca wants Colombia's fumigation to end

Petition against fumigation


A Colombian boy shows blisters on his face caused by herbicide spray

Further Reading

* Spray campaigns under fire

* Death spray legal defense

* Latin America rejecting US drug war

* Bolivian peasants or narco-terrorists?

Pesticidal Killers



U.S. Afghan drug failure

U.S. Afghan drug failure goes back to '01

Afghanistan's Drug Habit

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban