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US pressures El Salvador to buy Monsanto's GMO seeds                                                                                                                                        Published time: June 10, 2014 18:11                                                                                                                                                                                Get short URL                                                   
                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                        

The entrance sign is seen at the headquarters of Monsanto, at Creve Coeur (St. Louis), Missouri (AFP Photo / Juliette Michele)

                                                   
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As one of the preconditions to authorizing close to $300 million in aid, the United States is pressuring El Salvador to purchase genetically modified seeds from Monsanto instead of non-GM seeds from local farmers.               
  According to Sustainable Pulse, a website covering developments  related to genetically modified organisms and sustainable  agriculture, the US will reportedly withhold $277 million in aid  through the Millennium Challenge Compact if El Salvador refuses  to purchase GM seeds from the biotech company Monsanto.
  The website states that the stalled aid package was originally  put on hold in late 2013, when it was revealed that Millennium  Challenge Corporation would not deliver funds to the country  unless “specific” economic and environmental reforms were made.  Apparently, one of those is related to the purchase of GMO seeds.
  Speaking with Verdad Digital, however, the president of the El  Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA) criticized  the US negotiating position and said the country should back away  from its demand.
  “I would like to tell the U.S. Ambassador to stop pressuring  the Government (of El Salvador) to buy ‘improved’ GM seeds,”  CESTA president Ricardo Navarro said, adding that the move would  hurt the local economy and only benefit US companies.
  Navarro specifically singled out Monsanto for criticism as well,  saying, “There is a harmful corporation on the planet called  Monsanto … it is truly disturbing that the U.S. is trying to  promote them.”
  In Europe, too, Monsanto’s GM seeds have garnered criticism. In  March, France banned the growth and sale of the company’s  insect-repelling maize seed MON 810, just a few days before it  was revealed that insects in the US were developing resistance to  the crop.
  The comments from Navarro also arrive as Monsanto is under fire  in several South American countries, including El Salvador and  Brazil. As RT reported previously, El Salvador passed legislation in September 2013 banning  glyphosate, used in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticides, as well as  dozens of other agricultural chemicals.
  Similar proposals are being considered in Brazil, where the  country’s prosecutor general recently urged the National Health  Surveillance Agency to “reevaluate the toxicity of eight  active ingredients suspected of causing damage to human health  and the environment,” including glyphosate and seven other  chemicals.
  As for why glyphosate is coming under such heavy scrutiny, new  research has indicated that while the chemical is not as  dangerous on its own, it becomes extremely toxic to humans once  it mixes with natural metals found in soil.
  Meanwhile, other reports have linked glyphosate to the outburst of a  fatal kidney disease that has killed thousands of people in El  Salvador and Sri Lanka, and could also help explain similar  situations in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and India.

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