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  Cesar Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department of Cesar or Cesar Department (es: Departamento del Cesar), is a department of Colombia.
It is in the north-east of the country, borders to the north with La Guajira Department, to the west with the Magdalena Department and Bolivar Department, to the south with Santander Department, and to the west with the Norte de Santander Department, also bordering the country of Venezuela.
The César Department has an extension of 22.905 km², its geography is divided into two different regions: the mountanious region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perija and the flat lands belonging to two valleys between this two mountain systems, the César river valley and the Magdalena River Valley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar_Department   (567 words)

  
 Cesar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cesar (Spanish, French and Portuguese - as César - for Caesar) may refer to:
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
This page was last modified 22:52, 16 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar   (94 words)

  
 Colombia: Hacienda Bellacruz: Land, violence and paramilitary power - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Hacienda Bellacruz is located in the south of the department of Cesar, a region with much fertile land, suitable for export crops, cattle-ranching and the cultivation of illicit crops such as coca and marihuana.
The systematic violation of human rights against members of popular organizations and peasant farmer leaders in the department of Cesar corresponds to a national strategy of undermining organizations which the security forces deem to be subversive.
South of Cesar and the neighbouring Norte de Santander department are among the areas registering the largest numbers of internally displaced people in recent years.
web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/recent/AMR230061997   (5709 words)

  
 The UCLA Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies and the César E. Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary ...
The UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the César E. Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction
Come into our virtual office and learn about the department and who we are, what we do, and where we are going.
UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /chavez   (147 words)

  
 Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The territory's main population was made up of hundreds of tribes of the Chibchan and "Karib", currently known as the Caribbean people, whom the Spaniards conquered through warfare, while resulting disease, exploitation, and the conquest itself caused a tremendous demographic reduction among the indigenous.
However department governors, mayors of cities and towns and other executive branch officials are only elected for a three year term, and cannot be immediately reelected.
On May 28, 2006, president Álvaro Uribe Vélez was reelected by a vote of 62%, against 22% for Carlos Gaviria Díaz of the Democratic Pole, and 12% for Horacio Serpa Uribe of the Liberal Party.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Colombia   (4174 words)

  
 Cesar V Purisima is DTI Sec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cesar Purisima accepted the invitation of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for him to join her Cabinet.
Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye disclosed that Cesar was chosen from a shortlist of possible successors mainly because of his integrity, professional competence, and support of the development agenda of the Philippines.
Cesar follows the footsteps of former SGV Chairs Roberto Ongpin and Rizalino Navarro who also who served as DTI heads.
www.ey.com /GLOBAL/content.nsf/Philippines/Cesar_V_Purisima_is_DTI_Sec   (134 words)

  
 CWI - Pablo Cesar
Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen, "The Ambulant Annotator: Empowering Viewer-Side Enrichment of Multimedia Content," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2006, pp.
Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen, "An Architecture for End-User TV Content Enrichment," Proceedings of the 4th European Interactive TV Conference, Athens, Greece, May 25-26, 2006, pp.
Pablo Cesar was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976.
homepages.cwi.nl /~garcia   (1376 words)

  
 Computer Science and Mathematics
The Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CESAR) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1984 by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE/BES).
The primary mission of CESAR is to develop, through innovative research, a core of excellence in the area of intelligent systems science and technology.
CESAR is a national resource, a collaborative research facility providing guests from universities, federal laboratories, and industry with access to state-of-the-art (and often unique) technology and equipment in a stimulating research environment.
www.csm.ornl.gov /cesar.html   (238 words)

  
 040114 EU v. PHILIP MORRIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Departments of the Republic of Colombia brought these RICO actions against various tobacco companies, alleging that the tobacco companies engaged in cigarette smuggling and money laundering in their territories.
The Departments of Colombia make similar allegations, claiming that the defendants have established and maintained small volumes of legal cigarette sales in Colombia in order to conceal and facilitate the many illegal shipping routes into the country.
Absent such indication that the executive branch consents to the suit, a claim that triggers the revenue rule is barred unless the plaintiffs establish that superior law, such as the federal statute that provides the applicable right of action, abrogates the rule in the context in which the plaintiffs seek to enforce their tax laws.
www.tobacco.org /resources/documents/040114EUvPM.html   (5970 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   (18370 words)

  
 Bulletproof Vest: Cesar Montano Re-Writes History
From the Really Stupid department, Cesar Montano admits to being so stupid as to request for a change in history because, well, it was just way cool: The actor made his stand during the boot camp held before filming, in...
From the Really Stupid department, Cesar Montano admits to being so stupid as to request for a change in history because, well, it was just way cool:
Cesar and 10 other Filipino actors play Filipino guerrillas in the war movie produced by Miramax and directed by John Dahl.
blog.622design.com /archives/000827.html   (260 words)

  
 IFEX ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Action on the ruling had been delegated to the Administrative Tribunal of Cesar department, which was supposed to reexamine the election.
FLIP calls upon the authorities of Cesar department to discover the authors of the threats made against Camargo and to continue investigating the threats made against Bravo.
FLIP similarly calls upon the authorities of the city of Valledupar to provide the protection to the journalists that was promised in the security committee determination of 11 October.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/71179   (415 words)

  
 Colombia: Political violence in Norte de Santander and south of Cesar Department escalates
According to reports received, in the southern part of the department of Cesar and the department of Norte de Santander paramilitary groups are forcing peasant farmers off the plots of land they own.
Despite the obvious threats popular organizations, their members and peasant farmers face in the southern part of Cesar department and the department of Norte de Santander, these organizations continue to exist, communities continue to pursue their legitimate attempts to better their lives and peasant farmers continue to farm their plots of land.
Several guerrilla fronts operate in the south of the department of Cesar and the department of Norte de Santander.
www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=F696898011141455802569A500715468   (5857 words)

  
 Inter American Press Association
This was apparently in reprisal for a report describing the fear gripping the local population due to the guerrilla activities.
Journalists working in the department of Guajira reported that threats by armed groups kept them from reaching the foothills of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, where battles had left 40 dead.
During the second week of January, the governor of the Department of Magdalena, Trino Luna Correa, and Police Chief, Colonel Oscar Gamboa, accused journalists in that region of fostering an image of a lack of safety for reporting on the crime wave rocking the city of Santa Marta.
www.sipiapa.org /pulications/report_colombia2005.cfm   (1374 words)

  
 Chavez protégé joins Phoenix agency
Olga Aros, a protege and friend of the late Cesar Chavez, is the new deputy director of the Phoenix Equal Employment Opportunity Department.
Olga Aros grew up to become a protégé and friend of the late Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers union.
Among her responsibilities with Equal Opportunity Department will be helping to certify minority- and female-owned small companies so they can do business with the city.
www.azcentral.com /abgnews/articles/0506aros06.html   (700 words)

  
 Law Department - Cesar Pereira
Although I have only been here a few months, I already have a caseload of 17 actions and have written and served several applications, orders to show cause and motions and appeared before a State Supreme Court Judge in support of one of the applications.
I have found that the Law Department is a great place to work because of the incredible responsibility you are given so early in your career to work on your own cases from beginning to end.
I have also found the senior attorneys in my division to be surprisingly accessible and extremely helpful and supportive.
www.nyc.gov /html/law/html/directory/pereira.shtml   (222 words)

  
 Innovation Award
Cesar E. Chavez Community School is part of the Roosevelt School District.
The Safe Schools “Focus on Excellence” Youth Program is in cooperation with Cesar E. Chavez Community School and partnerships with Maricopa County Juvenile Probation Department and its School Probation Officer Pamela Neal.
The program is designed to promote academic success in school and future success in life by providing youth with a safe place to express their thoughts and opinions verbally, in writing and through various other artistic venues.
www.ci.phoenix.az.us /EDUCATN/partinno.html   (336 words)

  
 Cesar Chavez
The California Department of Education site provides PDF files of biographies of Cesar Chavez written for each grade level.
This biography is filled with photos and accounts of the life of Cesar Chavez in order to help students understand the unique contributions he made to our world and especially in the lives of migrant farmworkers.
This book is the poem he wrote to honor Cesar and deal with his death.
powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /projects/multicultural/CesarChavez.htm   (777 words)

  
 Dr. Cesar Caviedes: University of Florida Department of Geography (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Department of Geography, University of Regina, July 1976-July 1980.
Department of Geography, University of Regina, Canada, 1972-1976.
Department of History and Geography, The Catholic University of Valparaiso, 1963-1970.
www.geog.ufl.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /faculty/caviedes.html   (1128 words)

  
 americas.org - War Continues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Three residents of the Nuestra Señora Candelaria de la Montaña reservation in Caldas department were shot to death August 17.
A leader of the Kankuamo people in Cesar department was murdered on October 4.
The body of humans rights activist Luciano Enrique Romero Molina was found with 47 stab wounds September 11 in Valledupar, in Cesar department.
www.americas.org /item_22780   (207 words)

  
 Colombia: Murder at La Cabaña
In February 1996, 280 families were displaced form the hacienda called Bellacruz in the south of the Department of Cesar by paramilitaries.
A commercial company, Marulanda Ramírez Inversiones S.A., has an interest in the hacienda and it seems that the were seeking to impede the process of allocation of the lands in favour of the peasants which had been initiated by INCORA by expelling them.
The accompaniment of Eliseo continued when he was named as a member of the Inter-institutional Commission (made up of state entities, represenatives of NGOs and the peasants), which visited Pelaya and Valledupar (Cesar) in April, seeking guarantees for a safe return to the hacienda.
www.peacebrigades.org /ern/ern96-04.html   (732 words)

  
 Colombia: Fear for safety: Population of Curumaní municipality, Cesar Department - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Colombia: Further information on fear for safety: Population of Curumaní municipality, Cesar Departm...
Colombia: Fear for safety: Population of Curumaní municipality, Cesar Department
paramilitaries on 4 and 5 December, in the municipality of Curumaní, Cesar
web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGAMR230422005   (467 words)

  
 IFEX :: News director receives death threats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The first message came by telephone; the second was sent as a text message to his cellular phone the next day.
Camargo does not know who made the threats but he does not rule out the possibility of a link to his recent reporting on corruption in local public services.
On 3 October, Camargo filed a complaint with the local public security department (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS), who ordered an immediate escort for the journalist to guarantee his safety.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/69666   (200 words)

  
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Secretary General Cesar Gaviria's Department of Legal Services 1994-2004.
Request to Use Headquarters for Meeting of Organization In Which the Government of Cuba is a Member.
Section-by-section analysis prepared by the Department of Legal Services is contained in "Draft Resolution: Career Service, (CP/CAAP-2618/02 rev. 1, May 9, 2002), adopted by the Permanent Council on May 15, 2002 (CP/doc.3601/02)."
www.oas.org /legal/english/documentindex.htm   (501 words)

  
 americas.org - Paramilitary Blitz Continues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On January 14, eight people were murdered and two others wounded by rightwing paramilitaries in Valledupar, capital of the northeastern Colombian department of Cesar.
On January 17, a group of about 50 paramilitaries from the AUC killed at least 24 campesinos, abducted 10 others—six of them minors—and burned 30 homes in the impoverished rural community of Chengue, in Sucre department in northern Colombia.
The Santa Bárbara attack brings to 15 the number of paramilitary massacres that have taken place so far in 2001, resulting in the deaths of at least 170 people and the forced displacement of hundreds more.
www.americas.org /item_6574   (290 words)

  
 White House Fellows to Meet with Key Officials
The meetings are part of the Fellows' first domestic policy study trip to examine recovery and resurgence issues facing New York.
As a Captain in the New York City Police Department, Hothan served as commanding officer of an Internal Affairs investigations unit.
A Fulbright Scholar, Hothan has served as a "Big Brother," volunteered for City Harvest, and is an officer in the Army Reserves.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/11/20021104.html   (584 words)

  
 Colombia: César creates department water council - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A department water council is created by César, a Colombian department with 1 million residents, and the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territory Development.
The department has US$ 5.5 million (EUR 4.5 million) to assist 11 of the department's 25 municipalities.
Therefore, links may not be active anymore, although they were checked at the moment of publication.
www.irc.nl /page/10337   (129 words)

  
 Concordia Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab: People
Bruce L. Derwing (Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta)
Cesar Galera (Department of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
Gary Libben (Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta), MCRI Mental Lexicon project
alcor.concordia.ca /~coglab/coglab_people.html   (109 words)

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