Readers of the Narcosphere may well be aware of some of the more problematic aspects of biofuel as an ostensibly "renewable" energy source, including food scarcity, deforestation, and soil erosion. Now, in yet another example of neoliberal interests dressing up the disenfranchisement of traditional and indigenous communities in "green" drag, a business reporter for the BBC relates how paramilitary syndicates in Colombia are kicking Afro-Colombian communities off of their traditional homelands for the sake of biodiesel production, destroying their sustainable way of life in the process. As the article states,

land use [i.e., on the part of the Afro-Colombians of Colombia's Northwest] is based on cultivating a few traditional crops for subsistence - such as corn, yucca and cocoa - or for hunting and fishing