for 16 March 2001. Updated every WEEKDAY.

Tim Cavanaugh
Special Guest Editor

Terry Colon
Art Director

Heather Havrilesky
Senior Editor

Joey Anuff
Publisher

Without taking you to other new and interesting places, Suck is just kinda like reading all the other drivel on bulletin boards all over the web. Did you just finish this prior to publication, and didn't have time to research and add hyper links??

Polly Esther is the only Suckster who can get away with not adding hyperlinks to her rants and rambles. The rest of you need the distractions so we (the reader) can read the entirety of Suck without loosing interest. Nobody just wants to read pages of political doldrums when they could be clicking and jumping all over the web to new and interesting places.

Please, for the sake of your readers, don't skimp in the hyper links anymore.

Also, I know that everybody offers to write a Suck column for you guys, but I dare you to let me.

Douglas Badgley
<douglas.badgley@12enet.com>

Dear Douglas:

Thanks, bud, for calling my story drivel; I can see you read it carefully before you "loosed" interest. And funnily enough, I sent some links to Suck close to deadline; I guess they didn't get in. Maybe you should read less and watch TV more?

And you'll have to take up your dare with Tim.

Loose-lipped and linked up,

Tim

Further on Plan Columbia, I read in Chomsky's 'the New Humanism' that the original draft of Plan Columbia was written in English.

Viva Zapista,

Scott Mcintyre
<smcintyre@waverleyglen.com>

Hey Scott.

Yeah Noam Chomsky's been following Col. for some time; a bunch of his views have been translated into Spanish in the leading paper here. And your point backs up what I mentioned in the story. Now for a little second language lip: "Columbia"'s a university, "Colombia's" the subject of the Plan; Emiliano Zapata was the guy who inspired the cry, "Viva Zapata"; the "Zapatistas" make up the movement led by Marcos, the guy w/the mask.

Viva Las Vegas,

Tim

Senor Pratt-

The coca-eradication component of Plan Colombia carries with it yet another problem. According to Disinformation, the "spraying" planned may involve biological agents that make Agent Orange seem almost nutritious. Genetically engineered crop blights that target cannabis, coca, and poppies are both planned and extant, and Plan Colombia might well be their coming-out party. This has the potential — no, the likelihood — of setting up ecocide on a scale that recalls bad sci-fi movies.

Just thought I'd brighten your morning.

Yrs,

Michael Treece
<nonwhiz@earthlink.net>

Michael:

Got the message in the afternoon, and don't worry, being on the ground here, there's nothing you could inform or misinform me of that isn't matched or surpassed by what's entering my ears and eyes daily. As for the "crop blights", or fungus research — which has been reported on in pub's ranging from NewScientist to NY Times — supposedly, Col's Min. of Env.has prohibited research on this line of eradication on Col. soil, but who knows...?

This story can be followed more in US for now, I think, looking into USDA and other gov't outfits...

Thanks for the note -

Tim

Hi,

I just read your excellent piece today in Suck.com, which I enjoyed very much (aside from concerning me even more about my country). I admire your style of journalism, having also read your previous piece on Colombia. Let me tell you about myself. I am a professor at universidad del Rosario in Bogota, currently teaching a course on International Relations of Colombian Regions. Previously I was a student at Cornell University, and I am originally from Cali, and I still go there once in a while. I would like it very much if perhaps on one of your visits to Bogota you could come to my class to give a lecture. It would be of great use to my students and myself. If it is not in your plans to come to Bogota or to give lectures, I would personally like to meet you in any case.

Best Wishes,

Andres Roman
<androman@col.net.co>

Andres,