Cinton Fungus

Hello, PSN and WSN friends,
Clinton fungus is the name given by a peasant young girl to the Fusarium 
oxysporum f.sp. erythroxyli. (also called EN-4, isolated by a Dr. David 
Sands). The girl was a four-minutes grass-root speaker at a televised 
meeting, part of our peace process dialogues. Tomorrow they will have an 
international meeting with 21 representatives of  european nations, Canada, 
Japan, and others, to deal with the coca problem in the world and in our 
nation. Guess what nation did not accept the invitation? Yes, USoNA, the 
motherland of those congress-gentlemen and gentle-ladies that approved 1 
trillion dollars to buy US helicopters and fungus to spray us with bullets 
and bio-droplets, starting at a region just 100 miles from here, and close 
to the border with Ecuador.
Meanwhile, in Spain there is a meeting to find answers to this particular 
question: If colombians write so nice, why do they kill theirselves in such 
an ugly fashion? (Let me clarify that my writting style was spoiled long 
ago, and for good, during my engineering training at the university years). 
Well, I suspect that part of the answers to this and to coca related ones 
may be found beyond our frontiers, perhaps in the north.
But better than my words, there is here an article by a good colombian 
sociologist and writer, of course in exile as so many of our best 
intelectuals, due to threats of paramilitaries (the civil-dressed army 
division of the state army according to HHRR-ONGs, tied to some big land 
owners, big drug bosses, and in some cases commanded by ex-officers well 
trained at the SoA).
For those interested in biological-determinism there is also the following 
article The Much Ignored Biowarfare Component at 
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-34817/eng_may2/0531_bigwood.htm
Time to say good bye, and to wish that Cinton Fungus will not spoil my 
remaining skills even more. Cheers, Emilio
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Apocalypse Now
By Alfredo Molano B.
The Anti-Narcotics Brigade, in a victory march, will open door after door 
in 
Putumayo and Caqueta so that Carlos Castano's troops can, in Mrs. 
Albright's 
words "extend democracy to the south". EL ESPECTADOR Sunday, 25 June 2000
Ever since I read news of the approval of the two trillion Colombian pesos 
to strengthen the "oldest democracy in South America" black butterflies in 
my stomach have not stopped fluttering.
How many Colombians, who today are alive, have dreams, and sweat doing odd 
jobs, will die with the decision of the United States Congress? Do the 
settlers of Caño Mosco, pushed into growing coca by the landowners of 
Villanueva who robbed them of their lands, know what awaits them? What are 
the dentist, the carter, the motorboatman, the mayor’s office employee of 
Pinuña Negra, innocent of the fact that the bombs that will kill them are 
already made and that the helicopters that will fire them are ready to take 
off, doing?
Tomorrow, while Senator Lott’s boys continue getting high on the heroin 
produced by the Mujadeen that defeated the Russian Communists in Afganistan 
a few years ago, or on the cocaine that their new allies in southern 
Bolivar 
department produce, in the mountains of Almaguer, Cauca, the peasants will 
be left with the sockets of their own eyes to hide in because everything 
else will be scorched earth. The Anti-Narcotics Brigade, in a victory 
march, 
will open door after door in Putumayo and Caquetá so that Carlos Castaño’s 
troops can, in Mrs. Albright’s words "extend democracy to the south".
Each day, reports of human rights violations will attribute less and less 
responsibility to the Armed Forces for obvious, evident, and tacit reasons. 
And Senator Helms will pass them over to Senator Leahy, who will not be 
able 
to say anything. Perhaps General Wilhelm will land at the Tres Esquinas 
base 
to distribute cans of American powdered milk, American corn, and American 
deviled meat, and a photo of the American First lady to 20 displaced 
families prepared especially for the occasion while General McCaffrey 
copiously gives out an English primer with the basic principals of the 
International Human Rights, put into practice by him in the Persian Gulf 
War.
The Minister of Defense, without a tie, as is customary these days, will 
frenetically applaud the exemplary act of generosity and sovereignty.
I do not want to think of what awaits the small black children who try to 
fly kites made from potato chip packages on the banks of the Atrato River, 
the day that the paramilitaries are given the green light to finish off 
even 
the seeds as the chulavitas (the Conservative paramilitaries during the 
Violence period) did in Rovira, Tolima in the 1950’s. Nor, of what will 
happen to the U’wa Indian people when the national army, with painted 
faces, 
laser sensors, and grenade launchers, carry out an aerial operation on 
their 
sacred lands to show off the Black Hawk helicopters, whose makers managed 
to 
prevail in the Senate after extensive lobbying.
I wouldn’t want to imagine - today is the day of Saint John, who wrote - 
"and there were lightening bolts and thunder and a great tremor on the 
earth" - what 40,000 guerrillas armed to the teeth will do, once they step 
away from the negotiating table and go out to wage war without quarter and 
with no return. I am not going to read - in a way I have already read them 
- 
the headlines of the media exalting the bravery and abnegation of the U.S. 
advisors that sacrifice their golf games on the greens of the School of the 
Americas to come and "give us a hand" as Luis Alberto Moreno would say. I 
would prefer to read within a few years, God-willing, the reports of the 
diverted funds, crooked dealings, payoffs, bribes, and the trafficking of 
cocaine and heroin on the part of the new allies in defense of the oldest 
democracy in Latin America, in order to write, if I am still able: "Live - 
and Learn".

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