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Trucks to Bolivia

Submitted January 29, 2006 - 12:23 pm by John F. Eden
Thanks for this info, Stephen. This is not a good sign. Those of us who've viewed the "Chew on This" DVD that Narco News is offering will understand what this means to the people against whom these "anti-narcotics" operations are directed. As I see in mind's eye those gentle people up against these veicles, it reminds me of the choppers used against the Salvadorans and Vietnamese of earlier US aggressive actions. It also calls to mind the centuries of technological intimidation of indigenous peoples, beginning with the big ships, horses, armor, and black powder weapons of the Conquistadores.

This is another example of the principle that technology is not benign... a truck can be as destructive as a tank. These people need to be armed with a bit of monkey-wrenching techonology... there is information they could use to help protect themselves.

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