Paramilitaries displacing Afro-Colombians from their homeland for biofuel production
Posted by Gurujiwan Khalsa - December 27, 2008 at 6:15 pmReaders 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
La Jornada: "Denuncian que se realizan obras en Montes Azules para saquear las riquezas"
Posted by Gurujiwan Khalsa - December 6, 2004 at 3:44 pmThe Mexican government, (and behind them, North American conservation NGOs, most likely) is stating to the world: we had to Kill the Jungle In Order To Save It.
This is parallel to these same actors trying to steal indigenous pharma knowledge so they can patent it and make billions off of it.
Read about it here:
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2004/dic04/041203/014n1 pol.php


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