Political+Cartoons

[| Colombia Clean] Colombia clean mocks the demobilization groups to fight the human rights of civilian colombians. Many civilians are left between the hands of guerrilla's and the paramiliarities who are waging war on one another. The civials are caught in the crossfire often being wounded,kidnapped,threatened or killed. The US has sent in the paramilitary units to help aide the poor human rights conditions but they seem to only be making it worse with spraying the crops and livestock of poor farmers. Not only that but spraying over civilians as well they also pressure the civilians to choose a side. The US has poured tons of money into this issue and remained with a clear conscious thinking the human rights are back to human condotions as depicted in the cartooon.

The cartoon shows the US's plan to stop cocaine production. We continue to spray harmful herbicides over cocao farmers crops and livestock somtimes even over other people. The herbicides often burn peoples throats and eyes can cause skin irritation and kill many needed food supplies.We continue to puppet troops to spray innocent victims.

In this cartoon the large evil uncle sam represents the US and their supossed "help" As we send more paramilitaries to fight the guerrillas through destorying their crops as depicted with he helicopters. The grave represents the ever growing death rate of colombians trapped in between this situation.The innocent colombian's blood is being spilled at the hands of the US as seen with uncle sam sprinkling it on the grave.

My cartoon depicts the effects of the herbicide spraying. Many animals are doused with the spray and can sometimes lead to skin peeling or rashes as seen in the cartoon.

Citations

Fiore, Mark. "Colombia Clean." Cartoon. __Amnesty International__. 2 Apr. 2009 []. Latuff. "Plan Colombia." Cartoon. __Flikr__. 2000. 2 Apr. 2009 . Latuff. "Plan Colombia's Herbicide Spraying."__ Narco News__. 27 May 2003. 2 Apr. 2009 .