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	Arauca Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arauca is an eastern department of Colombia, with its capital at Arauca.
		It is bordered on the south by the Casanare River and the Meta River, which separate it from the departments of Casanare and Vichada.
		The department's indigenous population is at least 3,591 people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arauca_Department (247 words)

	Colombia: Laboratory of war - Repression and violence in Arauca. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is the case in the oil-rich, north-eastern department of Arauca where economic interests, especially those associated with the control of Arauca’s substantial oil resources - and the guerrillas’ attempt to sabotage them and gain capital from extortion of the oil industry - have fuelled the conflict there for more than 20 years.
		It consists of seven municipalities: Arauca, Arauquita, and Saravena, all in the north of the department, and Cravo Norte, Fortul, Puerto Rondón and Tame in the south.
		Arauca is one of the most militarized departments in the country, and became more so following the creation of the RCZ in the three northern municipalities of Arauca in September 2002.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engamr230042004 (18056 words)

	GAO-05-971, Security Assistance: Efforts to Secure Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas Oil Pipeline Have Reduced Attacks, but ...
		U.S. assistance was directed toward Colombia's 18TH army brigade headquartered in the Department of Arauca, whose area of responsibility includes all of Arauca and parts of the Boyaca and Norte de Santander departments to the northwest.
		The Department recognizes that the helicopters are a key element in the program, but notes, as does the draft report, that the number of attacks against the pipeline dropped before the arrival of the helicopters, attributable to other elements of the program.
		[8] The Caño Limón pipeline traverses the Departments of Arauca, Boyaca, Norte de Santander, Cesar, Magdalena, Bolivar, and Sucre.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d05971.html (7140 words)

	Arauca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arauca Department, in the northeastern part of the country
		The city and municipality of Arauca, capital of the department
		This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arauca (104 words)

	Paramilitaries threaten journalists in Arauca Department : print
		The "Victors of Arauca" section of the AUC announced in the communiqué that "journalists, presenters and correspondents, together with media managers and owners" in Arauca Department would be considered "military targets" for having failed to understand that "they must cooperate with justice".
		Meridiano 70, in the northeastern province of Arauca on 28 June.
		Varela Noriega was killed on the road between the town of Arauca and the Caño Limón oilfield as he returned from Arauca University with his sister-in-law and brother-in-law.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=2866 (648 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Colombia
		The following civilian and military authorities were also interviewed: the commander of the rehabilitation zone, the commander of the Arauca police, the mayor of the city of Arauca, the attorney general, the departmental interior secretary, the DAS director, the ombudsman and two members of the public prosecutor’s office.
		Furthermore, Arauca is of strategic importance because of its long frontier with Venezuela and its coca crop, with some 8,000 hectares under cultivation, according to official estimates.
		The quality of information may also be affected in the department of Arauca by the fact that most of the news media are owned by politicians and several journalists receive fees from a Congressman to keep his name in the news.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=4581 (2787 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the end of 2002, during a visit to Arauca, the ambassador of the United States announced the donation of 98 million dollars to the XVIII Brigade, to be used for the protection of the Caño Limón oil pipeline.
		At the same time the safe guarding of this oil resource for the sake of this company, ahead of dignity of the lives of the inhabitants of Arauca, is the cause of the assault on this region.
		The Spanish corporation Repsol has also appeared in Arauca, and is drilling a new oil field known as Capachos, located in Tame — the municipality where the paramilitaries are currently consolidating a foot hold....
	www.anti-imperialist.org /Colombia_6-20-04.htm (449 words)

	Focus on Arauca
		The department of Arauca in northeastern Colombia, along the border with Venezuela, is the focus of a $99 million Bush Administration plan to help Colombia's army protect an oil pipeline.
		Arauca has a significant presence of both major guerrilla groups (the FARC and ELN) as well as right-wing paramilitaries.
		Arauca is one of Colombia's main oil-producing departments.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/arauca.htm (524 words)

	Colombia: Growing Crisis in Arauca?
		Arauca Department is the region where the Bush administration is initiating its promised military buildup to help Uribe defeat the FARC and ELN.
		Arauca Department long has been an important source of revenue for the ELN and FARC, which routinely dynamite the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline to deprive the government of needed revenues and to extort taxes from oil companies controlled by Occidental Petroleum.
		Arauca's importance as a coca-growing region, from which the FARC and ELN derive important revenues, also has increased in the past year.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/832914/posts (1369 words)

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		SITUATION IN ARAUCA DEPARTMENT The department of Arauca is situated in the north east of the country on the border with the Republic of Venezuela.
		IN PASTO On 13 March 2003, in the city of Pasto, capital of the department of Narino, in the south west of the country, the police attacked teachers and students at the university of Narino when they were protesting about the government's lack of attention to the university.
		The human rights department of the CUT will be tireless in its condemnation of the violation of fundamental human rights in any respect and we hope that you will collaborate by disseminating the information and sending messages to the Colombian government.
	nyc.indymedia.org /media/text/52_teacher.txt (747 words)

	ICT [2003/10/16] Special Report: State of siege in Arauca
		ARAUCA, Colombia - "When there was no petroleum, there was no war," says Dario Tulivila, a traditional Guahibo Indian leader from Colombia's bloodily conflicted department of Arauca.
		Tulivila is president of the Association of Cabildos and Traditional Indigenous Authorities of the Department of Arauca (ASCATIDAR), which was officially launched in June 2003 to promote the local autonomy of the department's Guahibo and Uwa Indian peoples.
		Saravena is situated at the northwestern corner of Arauca, just south of the Rio Arauca, a tributary of the Orinoco that forms the border with Venezuela.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1066332562 (1426 words)

	STATE OF SIEGE IN ARAUCA \| World War 4 Report
		In Arauca, the ZRC covered the municipalities of Arauca and Arauquita (which the Cano-Limon field straddles) and Saravena (which the pipeline crosses).
		In 2001, Arauca's popular governor Hector Federico Gal lardo, elected on the ticket of the local grassroots Communal and Communitarian Movement, was removed from office by the national Council of State after only six months in power--on the technicality that he had briefly served as interim governor six month s earlier (a constitutional violation).
		On June 28, 2002, reporter and director Efrain Varela of Meridiano 70 radio in Arauca town was assassinated by unknown gunmen on the road between Arauca and Cano-Limon.
	ww4report.com /andean/aruaca (3455 words)

	Call for Action from Bogota 7/97
		The armed forces of the State should not be made members of this commission, to avoid a conflict of interest, and to guarantee the honesty of the inspection and control exercised by this commission.
		In spite of the rapid growth in the use of force by the State to ensure the protection of the civilian population, violations of the rights of the residents of this Department are rising daily.
		--Demand that the military leaders in the Department of Arauca be held accountable for their own actions and those of their subalterns, as well as for the commandants of troops stationed in the towns.
	www.colombiasupport.net /199707/redher1.html (1613 words)

	Caño Limon Oilfield : Costs of Doing Business : AFSC
		Caño Limon, located in northeastern Colombia in the department of Arauca on the border with Venezuela, is the country's second largest oilfield.
		Oil extracted from this field is transported through the Caño Limon-Coveñas pipeline, which runs from Arauca to the department of Sucre.
		The initial operations of Occidental in Arauca and the construction of Caño Limon were extremely controversial.
	www.afsc.org /colombiaoil/oil_2.htm (746 words)

	Colombia
		For example, the CCJ alleged that on May 11 troops of the 6th Brigade surrounded the towns of Montoso and Aco, Tolima department, accused various members of the population of being guerrilla collaborators, and causing the disappearance of Jose Maximiliano Gomez.
		For example, on May 30, paramilitaries in the department of Cesar released a senior departmental government employee they had held captive for over 9 months; paramilitaries justified their actions by claiming they had held him while they investigated allegations of corruption.
		On July 21, police in Atlantico department captured Leonidas Ricardo Reyes, the AUC Southern Bloc's third-in-command, who was suspected of murdering several teachers and a student in Magdalena department.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27891.htm (18469 words)

	Colombia
		On August 21, the FARC kidnapped Arquimedes Vitonas, the indigenous mayor of Toribio municipality, Cauca Department, and on August 26, in cooperation with the ELN, kidnapped Orlando Hernandez, the indigenous mayor of Ricaurte, Narino Department.
		On May 25, the Administrative Tribunal of Arauca ordered the Government to pay approximately $870,000 (2 billion pesos) to the families of 17 persons killed in the Air Force bombing of the village of Santo Domingo, Arauca Department, in December 1998.
		Choco, the department with the highest percentage of Afro-Colombian residents, had the lowest per capita level of social investment and ranked last in terms of education, health, and infrastructure.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41754.htm (19006 words)

	americas.org - 30 Unionists Killed This Year Already, Says ICFTU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Héctor Alirio Martínez and Jorge Eduardo Prieto Chamusero, Arauca regional Presidents of a farm workers' union (ADUC) and a hospital workers' union (ANTHOC), respectively, had been placed under the protection of a Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' special programme in 2002, a structure of the Organization of American States (OAS).
		The third victim, Leonel Goyeneche, was the Treasurer for Arauca's regional branch of Colombia's largest trade union confederation, the CUT.
		It includes details on the army's involvement in the killing of 13 'campesino' (agricultural worker) leaders on 20th May 2004 in four localities of the Department of Arauca.
	americas.org /item_16034 (1002 words)

	americas.org - Army Kills Three Union Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On the morning of August 6 the Revéis Pizarro Battalion of the Colombian army killed three union leaders in the village of Caño Seco, Saravena municipality, Arauca department.
		Samuel Morales, president of the CUT in Arauca, and Raquel Castro, member of the Arauca Teachers Union (ASEDAR), were detained in the same operation.
		The army initially claimed that the unionists attacked a military unit while it was attempting to rescue a kidnapping victim, and that the unit responded “militarily.” Subsequently, the government charged that the union leaders were members of the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN).
	www.americas.org /item_15956 (395 words)

	The Battle for Saravena
		One of the zones was established in the eastern plains of Arauca and encompassed the section of the 478-mile long Caño Limón-Coveñas oil pipeline most frequently bombed by the guerrillas.
		But initial statements by the ELN linked the detention of the journalists to the presence of U.S. troops in Arauca when the rebel group declared that the two reporters would not be released until the “political and military situation merited,” which appeared to be a call for the withdrawal of the U.S. soldiers.
		Shortly afterward, the ELN announced an armed blockade of Arauca’s highways from February 10-15 to protest the presence of U.S. troops in the region.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles2/Leech_Saravena.htm (2583 words)

	Colombia: Growing numbers of displaced in north east
		Until July, the ICRC's office in Saravena (Arauca Department), was assisting an average of three families per month.
		The situation is no better in other cities in the department, such as Tame and Fortul, where the ICRC provided aid on 18 August for some 800 people (158 families) who appealed for help after fleeing the fighting.
		Teams from the ICRC sub-delegation in Bucaramanga (Santander Department) and the ICRC offices in Cúcuta (Norte de Santander Department) and Saravena are keeping a close watch over the displaced families and the rest of the civilian population in this region of Colombia.
	www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/colombia-news-250806 (519 words)

	Colombia: Call to action and update
		One of the controversial aspects of the policy is being implemented in the northeastern department (state) of Arauca-site of the Cano Limon Pipeline.
		The official reports claim that 150 U.S. military advisors have arrived in Arauca and are training the Colombian army.
		The majority of the aid would be used for counter-drug activities, but there is also additional funding to protect the oil pipeline in Arauca and for general military activities.
	peace.mennolink.org /articles/colaction303.html (1477 words)

	U.S. Support for War of Terror in Arauca
		This troop involvement is in addition to the more than $3.5 billion the United States has already spent on the Colombian military since 2000, making Colombia the third-largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world.
		I just returned from Saravena, Colombia, a small town located in the important oil region of the Arauca Department and a town in which a large proportion of the U.S. troops in Colombia are based.
		Indeed, as Amnesty International has reported, the violent conflict in Arauca is motivated and fueled by oil interests and the attempt of the Colombian military, with the support of the United States, to protect these interests.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia197.htm (602 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2003
		Two men were waiting for him there and fled on a motorcycle after the attack, said an Arauca Department police spokesperson.
		Since October, he had been covering armed conflict in Arauca Department as a free-lance reporter for El Tiempo newspaper, said Álvaro Sierra, an editor at the daily.
		In November 2002, Alfonso's name was one of about 100 that appeared on a list distributed in the town of Arauca by paramilitary fighters, who threatened to kill the people on the list unless they "reformed," said Meléndez.
	www.cpj.org /news/2003/Colombia18mar03na.html (685 words)

	Americas Cases 2003
		Salazar, owner of Radio Sevilla, in the Valle del Cauca Department in southwestern Colombia, was found dead in his apartment in the town of Sevilla at 9:30 a.m.
		A spokesman for the Valle del Cauca Department police said there was no evidence that Salazar had been robbed, and that authorities are investigating rumors that he was killed in reprisal for views expressed on the radio program.
		Montoya, a reporter for the Barrancabermeja-based daily Vanguardia Liberal, in the northeastern Santander Department, received death threats that appeared to be related to her work as a journalist.
	www.cpj.org /cases03/americas_cases03/colombia.html (3845 words)

	US War of Terror in Colombia
		This troop involvement is in addition to the over $3.5 billion the U.S. has already spent on the Colombian military since 2000, making Colombia the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world.
		I just returned from Saravena, Colombia, a small town located in the significant oil region of the Arauca Department and a town in which a large proportion of the U.S. troops in Colombia are housed.
		Indeed, as Amnesty International has reported, the violent conflict in Arauca is motivated and fueled by oil interests and the attempt of the Colombian military, with the support of the U.S., to protect these interests.
	www.laborrights.org /press/dan_saravena.htm (561 words)

	Colombia: Laboratory of war - Repression and violence in Arauca.
		However, in the eveningof 12 November some 700 soldiers surrounded the town to enable the army, police and members of the Offices of the Attorney General(1) and the Procurator General(2) to raid homes, workplaces and shops.
		Between 1 January and 14 November 2003, the department of Arauca accounted for more than 47% of all killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions carried out against trade unionists in Colombia.
		· abandon the use of the army's "voluntary registers" and disband the Office of the Attorney General's "Estructura de Apoyo", which are threatening to strengthen impunity in the department of Arauca.
	www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=0EF5D7263C96D94C85256E9E005B595F (18615 words)

	ACA Members Subjected to Violence & Detention
		We call on all individuals and organizations to express their deep dismay and disgust at the continued persecution of the social movement in Arauca, and call on the Colombian state to release Luz Perly Cordoba from detention immediately.
		At the same time, the office of this organization in the municipality of Arauquita in the department of Arauca, was raided by personnel from the SJIN, CTI, DAS and the police.
		Through their human rights department, they have developed an arduous defense of the campesino sector, and are known for their defense of Life, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.
	www.landaction.org /display.php?article=185 (542 words)

	Human Rights Concerns Raised By The Security Arrangements Of Transnational Oil Companies (April 1998) Letter To ...
		Our research indicates that several cases of apparent extrajudicial execution in the regions of Arauca and Casanare over the last four years have not been resolved nor subject to serious investigation and prosecution.
		· Luis Joaquín Bello Mendivelso, a thirty-year-old peasant from Caranal, Arauca, was the victim of an extrajudicial execution by soldiers on September 8, 1996.
		When asked where he was being taken, the soldiers replied, to the military base at Tame or the city of Arauca.
	www.hrw.org /advocacy/corporations/colombia/Oilpat-03.htm (3312 words)

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