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	Department
		The department is divided in 19 districts: Areguá Capiatá Fernan...
		Guatemala Department Guatemala is a department in Guatemala.
		The department is divided in 6 provinces: Aniceto Arce Burnet O'Conn...
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	UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1961 Issue 1 - 001
		The poor results obtained in the department of Cauca are perhaps attributable to the political conditions prevailing for ten years, which demoralized constituted authority and prevented the implementation of the above-mentioned measures.
		It may be claimed that the chewing habit is now limited to nine municipalities of the department of Cauca, the names of which are given in the attached map together with particulars of the population of each and an estimate (in percentages) of the extent of the coca consumption.
		In some districts of the department of Cauca, the coca leaf has virtually become currency for the payment of wages; the indigenous inhabitants receive part of their weekly wages in coca leaves, a social malpractice which has been repeatedly reported to the Ministry of Labour.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1961-01-01_1_page002.html (1632 words)

	POPAYAN - LoveToKnow Article on POPAYAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Popayan is built on a great plain sloping N.W. from the foot of the volcano Purace, i near the source of the Cauca and on one of its small tributaries, 5712 ft. above the sea.
		The ridge forming the water-parting between the basins of the Cauca and Patia rivers crosses between the Central and Western Cordilleras at this point and culminates a few miles to the south.
		Popayan is the seat of a bishopric dating from 1547, whose cathedral was built by the Jesuits; and in the days of its prosperity it possessed a university of considerable reputation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POPAYAN.htm (412 words)

	Cali -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Straddling the Cali River in the Cauca Valley of southwestern Colombia, Cali is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department.
		department, southwestern Colombia, stretching eastward from the Pacific Ocean across the Andean Cordilleras (mountains) Occidental and Central, which are separated by the fertile valley of the upper Río Cauca.
		The department, 11,316 sq mi (29,308 sq km), is rich in minerals and forests, but it has made little progress in agriculture because of inadequate transportation.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273458?tocId=9273458 (690 words)

	COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE--DESPITE STATE TERROR \| World War 4 Report
		The government responded to the Minga on Oct. 9 by banning the peaceful marches, justifying the move by claiming that the indigenous mobilization was infiltrated by leftist rebels.
		In the southwestern department of Narino, some 3,000 campesinos from rural areas of Barbacoas, Roberto Payan and Magui Payan municipalities marched in the town center of Barbacoas on Oct. 12 to demand drinking water services and alternatives to illegal drug crops.
		On Oct. 12 in Corinto municipality, in the southern department of Cauca, riot police and army troops used tear gas and firearms against campesinos who were protesting on the road that leads from Miranda municipality.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1241 (1615 words)

	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - Jane's International Security News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		President Ernesto Samper ordered that the Caguan region in the Caquetta department be demilitarised and that all military operations be suspended for 32 days from the 23 May. This was intended as a goodwill gesture to FARC in an attempt to facilitate the release of the soldiers held hostage.
		The mayor of the Yondo municipality in the Antioquia department was kidnapped by FARC.
		The registrar, Henry Cano Estrada, was kidnapped by the ELN in Cantagallos, Bolivar department.
	www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit001019_2_n.shtml (12004 words)

	INDIGENOUS MARCH FOR AUTONOMY IN COLOMBIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Indigenous leaders from Cauca were arrested and abducted in the prelude to the march, but all were released after the marchers arrived in Cali for a massive rally at the city's stadium.
		In last year's elections, Cauca's first governor supported by the indigenous movement, Floro Tunubala, was replaced by Juan Jose Chaux Mosquera, a hardliner and close ally of Uribe--pointing to a still freer hand for paramilitary forces in the department.
		Cali is the capital of the next department to the north, Valle del Cauca, where the newly elected Governor Angelino Garz—n of the left Polo Democratico threw his public support behind the Minga.
	www.ww3report.com /indigenous.html (1185 words)

	Search Results for Cauca - Encyclopædia Britannica
		department, southwestern Colombia, stretching eastward from the Pacific Ocean across the Andean Cordilleras (mountains) Occidental and Central, which are separated by the fertile valley of the upper...
		department, western Colombia, rising from the Pacific lowlands across the Andean Cordillera Occidental to encompass the valley of the upper Cauca River.
		Founded in 1650, it is an agricultural centre in a coffee and cotton region on the Pan-American Highway and on a main...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Cauca&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (313 words)

	americas.org - Indigenous Delegation Abducted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A delegation of indigenous leaders went missing on August 22 in the southern Colombian department of Caquetá as they were traveling from the Toribio indigenous reserve in Toribio municipality, Cauca department, to a meeting with indigenous authorities of the Alta Mira reserve in San Vicente del Caguán municipality, Caquetá department.
		The governance secretary of Cauca department later clarified that it was the military’s Pichincha Battalion which first reported the abduction.
		On August 28 in Riosucio municipality, Caldas department, an unidentified armed group abducted and subsequently executed Embera Chamí leaders Jesús Alberto Andica Salarzar of the Playa Bonita community in the San Lorenzo reserve and Nelson Enrique Castañeda of the Sipirra community.
	www.americas.org /item_16326 (475 words)

	Colombia Departments
		The first and most notorious was the loss of its department of Panama, in a revolution encouraged by the United States to ease the way for the leasing of the Panama Canal Zone.
		Colombia is divided into 32 departamentos (departments) and one distrito capital (capital district).
		Bogotá, capital of the Republic and of the Department of Cundinamarca, is organized as the Capital District....
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	Cali -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Santiago de Cali, the city's complete name, is the capital of the (Click link for more info and facts about Valle del Cauca) Valle del Cauca, department in (A republic in northwestern South America; the major legal crop is coffee but cocaine is also a major export) Colombia.
		Initially, the city was established near the center of the (Click link for more info and facts about Cauca) Cauca valley, though it was moved to its current location a year after its foundation.
		That act, according to several historians of the city, was made in the lot that today occupy the church of the Favor and the residences between the present races 4ª and the river and the streets 7ª and 9ª.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cali.htm (752 words)

	THE "SIXTH DIVISION": Military-paramilitary Ties and U.S. Policy in Colombia (Human Rights Watch Report, October 2001)
		You, governor, represent the department's highest authority and you are shamelessly strengthening guerrillas in Cauca department.
		Outside Timba, Cauca, one witness told Human Rights Watch, a June 2000 army offensive was followed within hours by the arrival of AUC paramilitaries, who drove up even as military helicopters continued to overfly the area and the ruts of the army's Cascabel armored vehicles were still fresh.
		When the AUC arrived at dawn in a hamlet near Cajibío, Cauca, on November 22, 2000, Ana Zoraida Campo was in her house with her family.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/colombia/2.3.htm (5266 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 (17017 words)

	BUENAVENTURA - LoveToKnow Article on BUENAVENTURA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		, a Pacific port of Colombia, in the department of Cauca, about 210 m.
		The town is mean in appearance, and has a very unhealthy climate, oppressively hot and humid.
		It is the port for the upper basin of the Cauca, an elevated and fertile region, with two large commercial centres, Popayan and Cali.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUENAVENTURA.htm (152 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.
		For example, on December 2, Evelio Munoz, the mayor of Florencia, Cauca Department, and his 19-member cabinet fled to the departmental capital of Popayan as a result of threats from paramilitaries.
		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 (17531 words)

	Events
		Floro Tunubala, the first indigenous leader ever to hold a post of Governor in Colombia, completed his term as governor of the department of Cauca in December 2003.
		Floro worked in developing proposals for manual eradication of coca and plans for alternative social and economic development with 6 governors in southern Colombia whose departments were targeted for aerial fumigation in the US government-funded Plan Colombia.
		A member of the Guambiano nation, he is a representative of one of the strongest social movements in the country, the joint indigenous and campesino movement of Cauca.
	www.usfca.edu /latinamerican/evet4.htm (141 words)

	Cauca River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Spanish Río Cauca, river, western and northwestern Colombia, rising in the Andes near Popayán and flowing northward between the Cordilleras (mountains) Occidental and Oriental for 838 mi (1,349 km) to join the Río Magdalena north of Mompós.
		The department is a leading producer of sugar, rice, tobacco, and coffee.
		It is situated in the Cordillera Central of the Andes Mountains and is bounded by the Magdalena River on the east and the Cauca River on the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9021861 (786 words)

	Colombia: Killings in Cauca Department by the army
		On 10 April the regional Procurator of Cauca, Procurador Regional, Jorge Medina Avella, stated he believed the massacre to be the work of paramilitary groups and eye witnesses claimed that members of the army based at Piedra Sentada (which is under the command of the Batallón José Hilario López) were responsible.
		The department of Cauca has been heavily militarized for a number of years owing to the active presence of armed opposition groups, including the ELN.
		As a result the civilian population, who are largely rural workers working on coffee and fruit plantations, are often perceived by the armed forces as potential guerrilla collaborators and have been the victim of human rights violations including, arbitrary detention, torture, "disappearance" and extrajudicial execution.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/colombia/document.do?id=84E5C2A4442A8E29802569A60060253D (1210 words)

	Caught in a Colombian Crossfire
		But for indigenous groups in the southwestern department of Cauca, the violence began escalating long before the collapse of the peace process.
		The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), which is comprised of leaders from many indigenous groups in Cauca including the Guambianos, Paez and Yanacona, has responded to these invasions by repeatedly issuing statements declaring the neutrality of the region's indigenous communities with regards to the armed conflict.
		As a result of the escalating violence, Cauca's indigenous communities are now organizing in order to defend their traditional culture and the neutrality of their lands, while at the same time looking to the government to help them improve the economic condition of their communities.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia106.htm (1360 words)

	americas.org - 36 Massacred in Five Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On January 29, rightwing paramilitaries murdered six people in a marginal neighborhood of the town of Santander de Quilichao, in the southwestern department of Cauca.
		The same day paramilitaries killed six campesinos in the village of Mesetas, Jamundí municipality, in Valle del Cauca, which borders Cauca department to the north.
		On February 1 paramilitaries again hit Santander de Quilichao municipality in Cauca, killing one person in the town and three others, members of a single family, in the rural community of Palestina.
	www.americas.org /item_6613 (213 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| The Disappeared Mayor
		"On Tuesday August 24 the Secretary of Departmental Government of Cauca was informed in the hours of the night about the possible disappearance of the commission by Colonel Trujillo, commander of Batallion Pichincha.Â Immediately the security organisms of the Secretary of Government established a channel of communication."
		The colonel didn't attend, and on television that night various figures from the army announced that they rejected the jurisdiction of the indigenous over the case.
		Padre Antonio also captured something of the spirit of the movement in Northern Cauca, one of constructing dreams and democracy in the middle of terror war zone:
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6122&sectionID=45 (716 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		The march was planned by the seven indigenous communities of the neighbouring department of Cauca, which stretches from the Andes mountains in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, and is the ancestral home of the well-organised Nasa community.
		The elderly and those who were unable to take part in the march stayed behind in the reserves, guarded by a group of young men, because the leftist rebels had threatened to seize the indigenous territories if the people left to take part in the march.
		But they were rescued when several hundred members of the unarmed indigenous guard and others marched to the spot where the community leaders were being held, and successfully demanded their release.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=25537 (1342 words)

	Unionists persecuted by right-wing thugs and police : Indymedia Colombia
		On 17 October 2002, in the town of Popayan, Cauca* department, paramilitaries issued a death threat by calling the mobile phone of comrade OSCAR ALIRIO SANCHEZ, treasurer of the Cauca-CUT branch.
		On 23 October 2002, in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca* department, at approximately 9:30 in the morning, comrades PEDRO PABLO BERNE and MILCIADES SANCHEZ, activists in the National University Workers and Employees Union of Colombia (SINTRAUNICOL-CUT) were confronted by the police.
		On 28 October 2002, in the town of Nieva, Huila department*, comrade MARIO DE JESUS CASTANEDA, twice president of the Huila-CUT branch, was detained by the police.
	colombia.indymedia.org /print.php?id=361 (1080 words)

	Stop Terrorism in Colombia
		The two most recent massacres carried out in the past few days by paramilitaries in the northern department of Magdalena and south-western department of Valle del Cauca demonstrate ever more clearly why it is imperative to stop military aid from reaching the Colombian army and their paramilitary allies, Amnesty International said today.
		They were reportedly in a group of 20 fishermen attending a party in Ciinaga Grande de Santa Marta who were abducted by army-backed paramilitaries belonging to the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC, United Self-Defence Groups of Colombia.
		The second massacre took place in the communities of La Habana and Alaska, in the municipality of Buga, south-western Valle del Cauca department.
	www.progress.org /ai04.htm (629 words)

	COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS RE-TAKE THE LAND; PARAS STILL ACTIVE \| World War 4 Report
		According to the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) and the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca (ACIN), residents reported that government forces destroyed the community's food reserves in the Bodega Alta reservation, blocked ambulances from taking away the wounded and prevented health workers from treating the injured.
		On Sept. 9, Henry Chocue, coordinator of the Alvaro Ulcue youth movement of the northern Cauca indigenous communities, reported that army and anti-riot police units from Popayan (capital of Cauca) and Cali (capital of neighboring Valle del Cauca department) had attacked again, wounding and arresting community members and burning part of the estate.
		Northern Cauca's indigenous communities face a desperate lack of agricultural land; 70% of the land they hold has forest cover and only 12% is suitable for agriculture.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1145 (3050 words)

	Colombia: Killings in Cauca department - army officially accused
		On 7 April 1991 a group of heavily armed men in military uniform believed to be members of a counter-insurgency patrol under the orders of the commander of the José Hilario López battalion intercepted a public transport bus in Los Uvos, in the municipality of Bolívar, department of Cauca.
		The commander of the army's III brigade, based in Cali, Valle department, his legal assistant (asistente jurídico) and the judge of the 19 military court, (juez 19 de instrucción penal militar) have been named as under investigation into the irregularities.
		The 19 military court had ruled that members of the José Hilario López Battalion were not responsible for the massacre and requested the case be transferred back to the civilian courts.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/colombia/document.do?id=876C1184D798065E802569A600602F08 (811 words)

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