Consumo e impactos de los agrotóxicos en Colombia: comunidades envenenadas

Abstract

RESUMO Los agrotóxicos ampliamente usados en el mundo, han provocado muertes y enfermedades letales en los seres vivos. En el caso de Colombia, un país productor de agrotóxicos, las consecuencias se avizoran en diferentes comunidades tanto urbanas como rurales, pero sus estudios han sido limitados o son dispersos, lo que no permite obtener un panorama real de las consecuencias del modelo de Revolución Verde en el país. El objetivo de este artículo fue recopilar algunas investigaciones sobre los impactos de los agrotóxicos en Colombia, particularmente sobre los efectos del glifosato. Para ello, se seleccionaron 29 artículos en lenguas española y portuguesa, en buscadores como Scielo, Google académico y Science direct, así como prensa independiente y documentos institucionales, de los cuales 14 son estudios en Colombia, que demuestran el envenenamiento de suelos, aguas y personas. Discutimos estos impactos y los relacionamos con el panorama de la desigualdad y violencia agraria que vive el país.

The impacts of the drug war on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: An overview

“…The fumigation campaigns were carried out by Colombian administrations, both from Liberal Party and Conservative Party, in accordance with the US anti-narcotics support sustained since the 1970s, and they were kept in force likewise by Democratic and Republican administrations (Hidrovo, 2004;Meneses Cabrera, 2022). Since the 1990s, critics have been denouncing fumigation as a major cause of deforestation and massive contamination of people, livestock, wildlife, soil, and water reserves (Hidrovo, 2004;Osorio, 2003;Meneses Cabrera, 2022).…”

“…The fumigation campaigns were carried out by Colombian administrations, both from Liberal Party and Conservative Party, in accordance with the US anti-narcotics support sustained since the 1970s, and they were kept in force likewise by Democratic and Republican administrations (Hidrovo, 2004;Meneses Cabrera, 2022). Since the 1990s, critics have been denouncing fumigation as a major cause of deforestation and massive contamination of people, livestock, wildlife, soil, and water reserves (Hidrovo, 2004;Osorio, 2003;Meneses Cabrera, 2022). Critics also highlight the impact on Indigenous peoples and on campesino populations, since anti-drug harassment, as well as the dispute among drug-trafficking organizations over the control of lands, has been provoking massive human rights violations and population displacement (Carrión Sánchez, 2014;Ruano-Ibarra & Arciniegas Carreño, 2020).…”