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	Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, AUC) was formed in April 1997 as an umbrella paramilitary organization to consolidate most local and regional paramilitary groups in Colombia, each with the mission to protect local economic, social and political interests by fighting insurgents in their areas.
		In mid-May 2004, the talks appeared to move forward as the government agreed to grant the AUC leaders and 400 of their bodyguards a 142 square mile (368 km²) safe haven in Santa Fe de Ralito, Córdoba, where, under OAS verification, further discussions will be held, for a (renewable) trial period of 6 months.
		On April 11, an AUC spokesman repeated their claims that the current proposal for amnesty was too harsh primarily because it still allowed extradition for drug charges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autodefensas_Unidas_de_Colombia (2189 words)

	Barrancabermeja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has seen extensive fighting between the various armed groups in Colombia's ongoing civil war and is currently controlled by the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), the main paramilitary group.
		(The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) the largest guerrilla group, is still active in the surrounding countryside.) Because of the oil refinery, the city is also home to various gasoline cartels and illegal tapping of the oil pipelines and sale of stolen gasoline is a common occurrence.
		Although there is evidence of a small settlement in the area dating back to the 16th century, the city wasn't incorporated until 1922 not long after the discovery of oil and the foundation of the first extraction wells by the Tropical Oil Company (aka Standard Oil Company) [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barrancabermeja (812 words)

	Peace on the Table - AUC
		The United Self-defense Groups of Colombia conforms a National resistance armed organization born as a result of the political, economic, social and cultural contradictions of the Colombian society.
		The United Self-defense Groups of Colombia -AUC- reiterate that the military solution to the present armed conflict prolongs the state of war unless, at the same time, the causes that gave rise to it are combated.
		In our capacity as political actors representing large social sectors, the United Self-defense Movement of Colombia, and on its behalf and representation the Cordoba and Uraba Peasant Self-defense Groups, shall submit to the country a platform of political, economic and social proposals which shall be confronted in the ample National debate for peace.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/pot-paramil.htm (3255 words)

	FTR 2002/UN Commission / Pages 1--134
		De acuerdo con las informaciones recibidas, los grupos paramilitares, supuestamente apoyados de manera clandestina por las fuerzas de seguridad, habrían empezado sus operaciones contra las poblaciones civiles en Tumaco desde el mes de septiembre del año 2000, matando y amenanzando a civiles y comunidades indígenas, acusandoles de colaborar con los grupos guerrilleros.
		De acuerdo con las informaciones recibidas, las amenazas se habrían intensificado desde la circulación de un mensaje internet al final de agosto, según el cual el grupo Limpieza Urbana de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia iban a empezar una campaña de limpieza contra las personas que dicen pertenecer a la guerrilla urbana.
		En las últimas semanas un grupo de paramilitares a las órdenes del comandante Ramón Isaza habría amenazado de muerte a los miembros del sindicato ANTHOC del hospital de la ciudad de Honda, si estos se negaban a participar en las reuniones de dicho grupo paramilitar.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2002-74-add2.htm (17729 words)

	Human Rights & Human Welfare · Review Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The internal conflict of Colombia is unique in the relatively high number of state and non-state actors asserting varying degrees of military and political influence and independence.
		The strength of these forces is leading to the partial collapse of the state of Colombia, as evidenced by the diminishing state authority over large portions of the country and the non-physical erosion of democracy via widespread corruption.
		Cordoba is headquarters of Colombia's strongest paramilitary organization, and the author explores how the increase in guerrilla presence in the 1980's encouraged the local elites and state forces to consolidate a paramilitary and eventual political force.
	www.du.edu /gsis/hrhw/digest/terrorism/columbia/nonstateactors.htm (2773 words)

	Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Former AUC supreme leader Carlos Castaño Gil (Carlos Castaño Gil: carlos castaño gil is the founder of the autodefensas campesinas de córdoba y urabá (accu),...
		Separately, in events which remain clouded and confusing, former AUC supreme leader Carlos Castaño (Carlos Castaño: carlos castaño gil is the founder of the autodefensas campesinas de córdoba y urabá (accu),...
		The Venezuelan opposition dismissed the whole event as a "setup", claiming that Chávez intended to interfere with the potential approval of a referendum (referendum: A legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate) which sought to remove him from power.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/autodefensas_unidas_de_colombia (2184 words)

	Scoop: Beginning Of End to a Coherent U.S. Drug Strategy
		The AUC originally joined Colombia’s civil conflict in the early 1980s as a private vigilante group in order to counter the leftist guerrillas, and is funded by private landowners and commercial interests who feel they need protection from FARC extortionists, and also by drug kingpins to retain their drug-smuggling profits.
		Colombia’s social conditions have continued to deteriorate and the economy has remained stagnant as a result of a previous over-reliance on poorly-funded initiatives designed by the U.S. under Plan Colombia.
		Plan Colombia was first implemented in 2000 as an annual package of financial aid, mainly coming from the U.S. Congress for military, economic and social initiatives in the country.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0507/S00415.htm (2479 words)

	Archived Urgent Action: President of the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP) Threatened in Barrancabermeja, ...
		Colombia security forces and their paramilitary allies have a policy of labeling human rights and social justice organizations as guerrilla collaborators or supporters making them into legitimate targets in the counter-insurgency war.
		KAIROS has sent a letter to the Colombia government urging them to take appropriate measures to guarantee the safety of Yolanda Becerra, President of the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), so she can continue her legitimate work for the defense and promotion of human rights.
		We have also called on the Colombia government to adhere to its obligations regarding human rights defenders, as laid out in United Nation and Organization of American States declarations, and the UN's repeated recommendations to take measures to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders.
	www.kairoscanada.org /e/urgent/uaColombiaOFP020517.asp (1048 words)

	Why War? Mark Thomas Urges the Unions to Take on Coca-Cola
		Colombia has a bloody history of paramilitaries murdering trade unionists, often in collusion with the armed forces.
		Sinaltrainal (Colombia's national union of workers in the food and drinks industry) says this is "essentially to eliminate the union".
		Just over a week into the protest, and strikers are already being threatened by the paramilitary Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, which issued a statement to "declare war on the individuals that we have already identified as the leaders of the organisation.
	www.why-war.com /news/2004/03/29/markthom.html (989 words)

	United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC?Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia)
		The AUC—commonly referred to as the paramilitaries—is an umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to consolidate most local and regional paramilitary groups each with the mission to protect economic interests and combat FARC and ELN insurgents locally.
		AUC elements appear to be directly involved in processing cocaine and exporting cocaine from Colombia.
		Northern and central Colombia continues to be the primary base of operations for paramilitary groups.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/auc.htm (716 words)

	ipedia.com: Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia or AUC is a terrorist umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to consolidate most local and regional paramilitary groups in Colombia, each with the mission to protec...
		In mid-May 2004, the talks appeared to move forward as the government agreed to grant the AUC leaders and 400 of their bodyguards a 142-square-mile safe haven in Santa Fe de Ralito, Córdoba, where, under OAS verification, further discussions will be held, for a (renewable) trial period of 6 months.
		In spite of all these claims, the truth regarding Castaño's exact condition has yet to be revealed as of June 1st 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /autodefensas_unidas_de_colombia.html (1239 words)

	OSAC - Profiled Group Details - United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		AUC forces are strongest in the northwest of Colombia in Antioquia, Cordoba, Sucre, Atlantico, Magdelena, Cesar, La Guajira, and Bolivar Departments, with affiliate groups in the coffee region, Valle del Cauca, and in Meta Department.
		The AUC, commonly referred to as "the paramilitaries," is an umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to coordinate the activities of local paramilitary groups and develop a cohesive paramilitary effort to combat insurgents.
		The AUCâs affiliate groups and other paramilitary units are in negotiations with the Government of Colombia and in the midst of the largest demobilization in modern Colombian history.
	www.ds-osac.org /Groups/group.cfm?contentID=1270 (274 words)

	ETU Australian Solidarity Network with Colombia
		That investigations are set in motion to identify and punish in exemplary fashion the intellectual and material authors of the assassination of AURY SARÁ MARRUGO and his bodyguard ENRIQUE AREYANO as well as the other assassinations and forced disappearances against trade union and social leaders in the country.
		That all necessary operations are carried out to arrest members of the Autdefensas Unidas de Colombia who admitted publicly that they had AURY SARÁ MARRUGO and ENRIQUE AREYANO in their power.
		We demand that the Colombian state guarantees the free exercise of trade union activity, and the promotion and defence of human rights by the different social, union and human rights organisations, in which USO is included.
	www.etu.asn.au /international/coloilworker.html (765 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - In Declaring Success in Colombia, Bush and Uribe Distort the Realities of their Drug War
		The focal points of their meeting were anti-narcotics and anti-terrorism initiatives in Colombia, as well as the progress made in cracking down on Colombia's outlawed leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries.
		Additionally, 400 Colombian soldiers have died in encounters with the leftist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionários de Colombia (FARC), which proportionally is equivalent to the number of deaths of U.S. soldiers in the Iraq war since elections were held there on January 31.
		Uribe optimistically insists that Colombia's left-wing guerrillas are in their death throes, but the FARC continues to bomb oil wells, power lines, pipelines and major roadways on an almost daily basis.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/1685/1/114 (772 words)

	United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC—Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia)
		The AUC—commonly referred to as the paramilitaries—is a loose umbrella organization formed in April 1997 to consolidate most local and regional self-defense groups each with the mission to protect economic interests and combat FARC and ELN insurgents locally.
		Parts of the AUC loyal to Castano currently are in negotiations with the Government of Colombia to demobilize.
		Clashes between the AUC and the FARC insurgents in Putumayo in 2000 demonstrated the range of the AUC to contest insurgents throughout Colombia.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/auc.htm (273 words)

	Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)
		Colombia: Washington ve inevitable negociar con los paramilitares
		Paramilitar amenaza a Comisionado de Paz en Colombia
		Gobierno anuncia nuevo proyecto de alternatividad penal que podría favorecer acuerdo humanitario
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /auc.htm (806 words)

	.: La Prensa Gráfica :.
		Miembros de las paramilitares Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) se preparan a entregar sus armas, en una ceremonia realizada en Medellín.
		Las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) fueron fundadas hace 22 años para combatir a las guerrillas izquierdistas.
		La ceremonia de entrega de las armas por el Bloque Cacique Nutibara se realizó en el Palacio de Exposiciones de Medellín y reforzó las esperanzas del Gobierno de que conduzca a la desmovilización de las AUC, el mayor grupo paramilitar del país con unos 20,000 combatientes liderados por Carlos Castaño y Salvatore Mancuso.
	archive.laprensa.com.sv /20031126/mundo/mundo2.asp (458 words)

	[FIACAT on line] COLOMBIA : Extrajudicial executions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Exenen Hernández Barón, teacher, Ciro Alfonso Navarro, Luis Jaimes and José del Carmen Quintero, peasant farmers and Wolmar Eli Machado, teacher, were executed between September and November 2004 by members of the paramilitary groups belonging to the 'Autodefensas unidas de Colombia'.
		On 1 December 2002 the Autodefensas unidas de Colombia (AUC, self-defence militia units in Colombia), an organisation set up in 1997 by most of the country's various paramilitary groups to better coordinate their activities, proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire.
		We are asking you to act to ask the President of Colombia to carry out effective inquiries into extrajudicial executions.
	ww2.fiacat.org /en/article.php3?id_article=148 (476 words)

	Cucuta Colombia Auc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		Colombia Journalists in Cucuta working in climate of fear...
	www.travel-tropical.info /colombia/2/cucuta-colombia-auc.html (343 words)

	Front Page
		La presente es para comunicarles de los resultados de la investigacion donde comprovamos (sic) que en la Union sindical Obrera (USO) laboran vandidos (sic) de las FARC y del ELN.
		The Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (CUT), Colombian Trade Union Congress, estimates that during 2002, at least 172 affiliated trade unionists were victims of extrajudicial executions (EJEs) in Colombia.
		One hundred and sixty four received death threats, 26 were victims of kidnapping, 17 were victims of an attempted kidnapping, seven were forcibly displaced, 132 were arbitrarily detained and around 80 sought exile.
	www.laborrights.org /urgent/colombiaUSO-051503.htm (646 words)

	Colombia Libre - Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC
		La Antártida ha perdido una parte importante de su masa de hielo y las sequías han aumentado en África debido al calentamiento global, según dos estudios divulgados por la revista Science.
		El presidente Bush sí fue advertido de los estragos que podría causar el huracán 'Katrina'.
		Dos muertos y 12 heridos en atentado con carro bomba cerca de consulado norteamericano en Paquistán.
	www.colombialibre.org /detalle_col.php?banner=Internacionales&id=10098 (149 words)

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