by JOHN ROSS

MEXICO CITY (June 19th) - Plan Colombia, the $5,000,000,000 drug war boondoggle cooked up in 1999 by Bill Clinton and then-Colombian president Andres Pastrana and subsequently transmographied into a War on Terror adjunct by George Bush and Alvaro Uribe brought U.S. troops, fleets of helicopter gun ships, spray planes spewing poisons, and a vast array of human rights abuses to that troubled Latin American country. It also made Colombia the third largest recipient of Washington's foreign aid and the number one repository of U.S. military aid in the western hemisphere.

Just recently it was brought to our attention that Fresno City has an exclusive contract to sell Coke on its campus. This may not seem so problematic at first, since until recently many public schools have been in the business of pushing Coke to their students. Now many might think that this is the run of the mill story about a white powdery substance that goes hand in hand with hyperactivity, and has various bad effects on a person’s body.