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From: Alberto M. Giordano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 17:09
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Subject: [narconews] NEWS: Colombia in Revolt v. Prohibition - Issue #14
now online
August 25, 2001
BREAKING NEWS
Please Distribute Widely
Dear Colleagues,
Due to fast-breaking news events in Colombia, we begin Issue #14 of The
Narco News Bulletin - our "Back-to-School Teach-In For América" - today, a
few days early.
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Anne Patterson has just issued a public threat
against the following democratic institutions, each of which has opened the
debate on drug legalization this week.
Stories now posted on Narco News:
-- Colombia Congress Debates Legalizing
Senator Vivian Morales says, "Prohibition is the Narco's Greatest Ally"
-- Governors: End Drug Prohibition
Assembly of Colombian Governors Passes Historic Resolution by Consensus of
all 31 of the country's state governors
-- Andean Parliament Calls For Legalization Summit
Legislators from Perú, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia join Colombian Call
for Regional Policy Change -- Legalization goes onto agenda of upcoming
Presidential summit in Caracas
And the U.S. Ambassador's Response?
-- Anne Patterson threatens "Problems" If Solutions Are Found
The United States Press correspondents have missed another Big Story from
Latin America:
Colombia's democratic institutions -- those that "Plan Colombia" purports to
protect -- have turned definitively against U.S. policy this week.
As Colombian journalist-in-exile Alfredo Molano predicted in last month's
Narco News, the U.S.-imposed aerial fumigation campaign in Colombia has now
backfired. The Titanic of U.S.-imposed drug prohibition has now crashed upon
the iceberg of Civil Society. The over-reaction by the U.S. Ambassador
presages more news in the coming days and weeks.
It's Democracy vs. the Drug War in the Andes.
And as inauthentic journalists like Juan Forero of the New York Times parrot
the official party line and withhold the hard news from the American people,
we share with you today eight press reports from throughout the Andes that
reveal that the Championship Bout has begun: Democracy vs. Prohibition.
Thus begins our Fall Offensive for 2001; the Back-to-School Teach-In for
América:
http://www.narconews.com/
Stay tuned for announcements of dates and locations of the first Narco News
"Teach-Ins for América" to be held in Boston and New York in the coming
month.
To organize a teach-in in your town, city or campus, contact us by email at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's time!
from somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
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-- Best wishes
The truth is, if you are the President's wife and have a drug problem you get a drug-rehab clinic named after you. If you are poor, black, or Hispanic and you have a drug problem, you will languish in jail for years. ~~Bill Masters, "Liberty", November, 2000
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