War against narcoterrorism: An alibi to the recolonization of latin-america

This work is about a trying of United States of America’s government to occupy Amazonic’s forest using as an alibi the fight against narcoterrorism in some Latin-America countries, as Brazil, Colombia and Equator. This strategy starts in the late ninety’s, with de Colombia’s Plan, that was announced in the Ministerial Conference to Defence of Americas, realized in Manaus, in the 2000 year. However, three years later, in 2003, this initiative has extrapolated Colombia’s territory to cover the neighbor’s country, Equator, changing its name to Andean Initiative. One of the procedures was the utilization of a transgenic fungus named “green gas”, created by the transnational Monsanto, with the purpose to eliminate coca’s leaves from coca’s plantations. As a matter of fact, this procedure have as a result the migration of a large amount of Indian tribes, causing demographic void and contributing to military occupation of Amazonic’s forest. It’s clear that this violent military strategy is an attack to the sovereignty of Latin-America’s countries, a new kind of colonization using local political and social problems of Latin-America’s countries as an instrument to control its territories. In other words, although it appears a globalization movement, with the appearance of a global or regional war on drugs, it’s, in reality, the way that United States of America found to influence the local political processes, to control Amazonic’s forest and dominate the illegal commerce of cocaine in this continent, ensuring its hegemony on Mexico and South America’s territory. We must analyze this facts from a geopolitical perspective, at first, and then, from a sociological perspective, scouring its development inside each country, trying to understand how the native populations were forced to accept or to fight against this colonialist invasion.