Publications on Colombia and the “War on Drugs,” authored or co-authored by Las Lianas staff.

New Science on Roundup, June 2005
A factsheet on emerging threats to human health and wildlife.

“Statement to the Colombian Consejo de Estado”, September 2003
A Friend of the Court brief produced by Las Lianas and several scientist colleagues. The letter supports a Colombian court decision to halt aerial spraying of drug crops pending studies of health and environmental impacts. We submitted the statement in English and Spanish.

Statement to Congress—Rachel Massey & Jim Oldham, September 2002*
A critique of the omissions and scientific weakness of an EPA review of the herbicide spray campaign

Health and Environmental Effects of Herbicide Spray Campaigns in Colombia—Jim Oldham & Rachel Massey, March 2002*
An overview of the effects of US sponsored herbicide spraying in Colombia on human health and the environment.

Aerial Spraying Factsheet, March 2002*.
A four-page synopsis of important health and environmental effects of aerial spraying, this fact sheet summarizes our longer Health & Environmental Effects, listed above.

Critique of the "Nariño Health Report": Health Effects of Spray Campaigns in Colombia—Rachel Massey, March 2002*
A response to a State Department sponsored health report that purports to show the spray campaigns have created no adverse health effects in Colombia.

Echoes of Vietnam—Rachel Massey, Rachel’s Environment& Health News, #713, December 07, 2000.
Project Censored selected this article for an award in 2003.

Casualties in the “War on Drugs”: Traditional farms destroyed with herbicides—Elsa Nivia and Rachel Massey, Global Pesticide Campaigner, August 1999, Vol. 9, no. 2.

*Note: prior to September 2003, Las Lianas Resource Center operated as the Amazon Project of the Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies—ISIS. See Las Lianas history.