A Conversation in Exile: http://www.narconews.com/exiled.html Exiled Colombian Journalist Alfredo Molano Speaks with Narco News and says: Washington's Plan Colombia will not slow the illegal drug trade. But Plan Colombia will� �spread the cocaine crop to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and to Northern Colombia �increase the narco-power of violent paramilitary squads and their impunity to commit human rights atrocities (and to threaten journalists) �displace Colombian peasants with the motive of constructing a new Atlantic-Pacific canal within Colombia �cause grave environmental harm to the Amazon jungle AUGUST 7, 2000; BARCELONA: Colombian journalist Alfredo Molano and his family received death threats from US-backed military and paramilitary forces because he criticized them in his Sunday newspaper column in the daily El Espectador of Bogot�. Today the Molano family lives in exile, in Europe, in the Catalonian city of Barcelona. Molano, a leading expert on agriculture and the substitution of coca crops, granted an interview to The Narco News Bulletin in his apartment in a traditional fisherman's neighborhood of Barcelona on July 31, 2000. The interview with publisher Al Giordano was conducted in Spanish and translated to English for this report. Narco News also offered some of our own analysis about why certain conservative-libertarian sectors of the US drug policy reform movement don't want to listen to what their natural allies in Latin Am�rica are saying about the drug war, and the greater Am�rica's important contribution of developing a legalization argument from the Left. Here, Molano speaks on the imminent danger to his country posed by the $1.3 billion "Plan Colombia" military aid package from Washington. He cites the importance of Europe's refusal to participate and affirms, "The best way to fight against drug trafficking is to legalize it." He also explains why the Latin American Left increasingly embraces the legalization cause. Full Interview Text At: http://www.narconews.com/exiled.html salud y abrazo, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- Never lose a file again. Protect yourself from accidental deletes, overwrites, and viruses with @Backup. Try @Backup it's easy, it's safe, and it's FREE! Click here to receive 300 MyPoints just for trying @Backup. http://click.egroups.com/1/6349/6/_/475667/_/965645886/ --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>-
