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	Governor’s decree will regulate mining activities in Cojedes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Decree 617, an initiative to directly intervene in the mining, veins, deposits, and pits currently operating in Cojedes, was adopted by Cojedes governor Jhonny Yanez Rangel on February 28.
		To achieve these objectives, the Cojedes government will create the Cojedes Mining Unit, a dependency that will be in charge of all aspects related to mines, veins, and deposits in the state.
		Because of its location in the plains region of Venezuela, the vocation of Cojedes’ residents is primarily agricultural.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=27129 (693 words)

	Venezuela
		Federal and state police are investigating the so-called "Grupo Exterminio," a vigilante "death squad" with apparent police ties that is accused of up to 100 killings between mid-2000 and September 2001 in the cities of Acarigua and Araure, Portuguesa state.
		In Guárico state, a lawsuit for defamation against a journalist from the La Prensa del Llano newspaper and a court order prohibiting the newspaper from mentioning the state governor in its reports were regarded by some observers as a case of official pressure.
		The IPI report stated that "the aggressive rhetoric by President Chavez has contributed to the creation of a climate of intimidation and hostility toward the press and self-censorship is becoming more common." The IPI charged that some government officials at the state and city levels also have tried to intimidate the media.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8229.htm (16895 words)

	Cojedes State (Venezuela)
		Cojedes State has a tricolor of the same proportions as the classical Miranda tricolor (three stripes, wider as the go up).
		The Cojedes State Flag - Attributes and Meaning : Cojedes is a central-western state of Venezuela and its flag is divided on three horizontal stripes.
		The fl stripe is occupied 1/6 part under the orange stripe and symbolizes the ferreous temper of the metal, the science, the industry and the fortitude to the Cojedenians, as remind of the laborious pledge of their ancestors.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ve-h.html (645 words)

	ENN: Environmental News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		El Charcote, a 32,000-acre cattle ranch in Cojedes state that belongs to the British Vestey Group, was one of several private country estates earmarked for "intervention" this month by pro-Chavez state Gov. Jhonny Yanez.
		Authorities in Cojedes said the recent decree did not mean instant expropriation, but rather a formal investigation to see whether owners had legal title or were using lands properly.
		The populist president, who is reviled by critics as a Communist-inspired autocrat and praised by supporters as a champion of the poor, says many rural estates are left idle by absentee owners while landless peasants live in poverty.
	www.enn.com /cons_PF.html?id=81 (566 words)

	The Venezuela's Eco Portal to Eco-Tourism & Ecology
		The landscape llanero embraces near 71% of the one state.
		The industrial activity is precarious, being the agricultural one the economic base of the state.
		It is the one first producing of batata, of quinchoncho and of tobacco; the second in ajonjolí, and the third producing of rice, of yam and of mango of the country.
	ecoportal11.tripod.com /datos-estado-cojedes.htm (1255 words)

	Venezuela
		The COPP states that a person accused of a crime cannot be incarcerated during criminal proceedings unless that person is caught in the act of committing a crime, or a judge determines that there is a danger that the accused may flee or impede the investigation.
		In October the governor of Merida state announced that he had made a formal request to the public prosecutor to begin a criminal investigation of Monsignor Porras for alleged financial irregularities relating to the Church's administration of a publicly funded hospital.
		On April 5, residents of Cojedes state protested threats by the CLN to remove Governor Alberto Galindea for alleged financial irregularities.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/835.htm (14625 words)

	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		Alexis Ortiz, Solicitor General of Cojedes States, said intervention means "using authority to solve a conflict." According to him, Cojedes is "facing many conflicts" resulting from a poor land distribution.
		A significant percentage of Cojedes State lands are currently under discussion as to their use, boundaries and tenure.
		Once the land in Cojedes State has been redistributed, Ortiz added, this region will be more attractive for public and private investors willing to participate in endogenous development projects intended to ensure economic sustainability.
	www.eluniversal.com /2004/12/29/en_eco_art_29A519437.shtml (444 words)

	americas.org - Decrees Passed to Accelerate Land Reform in Several States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Caracas, January 4, 2005—Several state governors of Venezuela have either recently passed or are in the process of drafting decrees to accelerate the country's land reform process.
		In response to the decrees being passed in several states, Venezuela’s Vice-President, José Vicente Rangel, said, “The struggle against the latifundio makes social and economic sense, which is why it is of the highest interest to the state.” The Chavez government hopes to increase both social justice and "food sovereignty" via the land reform program.
		In Cojedes state, in Venezuela’s North West, the recently reelected pro-Chavez governor Jhonny Yánez Rangel, passed a decree that called for the “intervention” of uncultivated private land.
	www.americas.org /item_17308 (568 words)

	Genealogía de Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By the north it limits with the states Carabobo and Yaracuy; to the east, with the Guárico state; to the west with the states Portuguesa and Lara, and to the south, with the Barinas state.
		In the territorial division of Venezuela of 1830, the present Cojedes state appears in the Province of Carabobo.
		In 1881, the Cojedes state happens to along with form the states Portuguesa and Zamora, the South state of the West, until the 1892 constitution when Great Zamora State is denominated.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~venezuela/en/cojedes.html (339 words)

	Tinaco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tinaco or El Tinaco is a small town located in the northern part of the Cojedes State in Venezuela.
		Although it doesn't have any air fields, it can be reached by car through a relatively wide two-lane road on a one-hour drive from Valencia, the capital of the Carabobo State.
		It is also a 20-minute drive away from San Carlos, the capital of the Cojedes State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tinaco (155 words)

	Parranda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is distinguished as parranda or aguinaldo of parranda a musical form pertaining to the coast zone of the states Aragua and Carabobo, in Venezuela, where the tambora (drum) becomes present as accompanying instrument and melody shows an important Afro-Venezuelan influence.
		Name that receives the sets pertaining to the states Aragua, Cojedes and Carabobo and that is organized in christmas times to intone aguinaldos, this grups interpretates aguinaldos and parranda in which, generally sing a solo in with a choir take part, improvising subjects to the divine thing or the human.
		Lately one has occurred a process of mdernizations of the parranda central that is leading to the multiplication of these sets and to a differentiation between which they stay within the traditional and the new ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parranda (727 words)

	Venezuelan Authorities “Intervene” in British Cattle Ranch [Alia2] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Over the weekend, Cojedes state governor Jhonny Yánez, with about 200 national guard and police forces, entered the El Charcote cattle ranch, which is owned by the British food conglomerate Vestey Group, Ltd. The “intervention,” as it is called in Venezuela, is meant to settle a land dispute between the government and the ranch.
		The manager of the cattle ranch, Diana Dos Santos, told the press that she is relying on the state government to solve the land dispute and that the action has not violated the ranchers’ human rights.
		If the Cojedes commission finds that the land titles are in order, but that the ranch does not use all of its land, then the government could decide to give a portion of the land to landless farmers.
	www.alia2.net /article123514.html (931 words)

	Worldandnation: Venezuela's new revolution centers on land
		In the plains state of Cojedes, 44 large estates totaling about 620,000 acres are scheduled for inspection.
		Many of the squatters in Cojedes were lured from urban slums by the promise of free land.
		The state government is building a $180-million chicken farm and a $250-million sugar cane mill, both paid for with oil money.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/24/news_pf/Worldandnation/Venezuela_s_new_revol.shtml (2006 words)

	VHeadline.com - Cojedes State Governor delivers regulations manual on land interventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cojedes State Governor Captain (ret.) Jhonny Yanez has handed the National Agrarian Commission a regulations manual of procedures to apply the presidential national decree on land interventions.
		Among the applications listed in the manual are legal aspects of land tenure, financial model for the development of endogenous nuclei, socio-economic studies of peasant organization, population ordinance, everything related to the preservation and rescue of environmental areas and finally, how to guarantee the right to private property.
		It is registered in the United States (Worth, Illinois) and hosted on dedicated servers in Vancouver (Canada) providing an active 24/7 network for Venezuelan businesses and information workers worldwide.
	www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=25763 (643 words)

	Tinaco (Cojedes, Venezuela)
		COJEDES., to the sinister and 1.680 - 1.752 - 1.781, under the base.
		The image of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Chiquinquirá of Tinaco that enriches the first quarter, symbolizes the spiritual purity of Tinaco whose faith and hopes are inspired by the sacred principles of the catholic religion.
		Pennant remembers the name of the Municipality, the Venezuelan state to which belongs and its more important ephemeris.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ve-h-ti.html (414 words)

	GYTS - 2000 Factsheet - Venezuela - Cojedes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cojedes State, Venezuela GYTS 2000, includes data on prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum.
		These determinants are components Cojedes State could include in a comprehensive tobacco control program.
		The Cojedes State, Venezuela GYTS was a school-based survey of students in grades 6-9 conducted in 2000.
	www.cdc.gov /tobacco/global/gyts/factsheets/2000/Venezuela_Cojedes2000.htm (702 words)

	Iran Daily
		In Cojedes State, rich farmland about 160 miles (255 km) from Caracas, the regional government has passed a decree calling for the "intervention" in all private or public land deemed idle or not in proper production, officials said.
		The objective is stated in a national blueprint for the auto sector, which aims to make it a pillar industry for the entire economy by 2010, the Xinhua news agency said.
		According to her, $86 million was invested in Indepen-dent Power Project in Abia State by Nigerians in Diaspora; $20 million of investment in tantalite also by Nigerians in Diaspora; $500,000 anti-retroviral factory; $1 billion investment by South African firms between 2004 and 2005 and an investment of 30 million Swiss francs by Nestle.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2167/html/ieconomy.htm (2234 words)

	The Militant - January 25, 2005 -- Venezuela gov’t starts seizing idle farm land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That day, the government sent troops to the ranch near San Carlos, Cojedes state, Venezuela, to determine how much of the land the Vestey Group may hold and how much will be turned over to the peasants occupying it.
		The move, and other land seizures by municipal or state authorities, came as the federal government in Caracas, the country’s capital, issued a decree January 10 aimed at accelerating land distribution in the country.
		The 2001 agricultural law allowed the state to confiscate private farms of more than 5,000 hectares (12,350 acres) that were idle or unproductive, and distribute the land to those who would produce to survive and supply the domestic market.
	www.themilitant.com /2005/6903/690301.html (2598 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		One such property is the 13,000-hectare "El Charcote" cattle ranch in the state of Cojedes in the plains to the northwest of the Orinoco River, some 200 km southwest of Caracas.
		During the campaign for the October election for state governors and mayors - in which Chávez and his allies won a landslide victory - the president declared a "war on the latifundia" and urged all of his allies to take urgent measures to "democratise" rural property ownership and land use.
		In the last few days of December, governors Johnny Yánez of Cojedes, José Briceño of the northeastern state of Monagas, and Carlos Giménez of the northwestern state of Yaracuy - all Chávez allies - issued decrees for the "intervention" of farms in their regions.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=26932 (1115 words)

	Land intervention by Venezuela's Government: It’s all about populism \| www.vcrisis.com \| printer friendly version
		The Governor of the State of Cojedes announced yesterday that on Saturday they will begin the “intervention” of the Hato El Charcote farm, owned by British company Vestey, under the decree issued by that Governor in mid-December.
		According to the Governor: “The intervention will be performed with all of the machinery of the State to establish the first beachhead of the “Free land and Men MissionWith the aid of all of the Armed Forces and police forces and the authorities of the Governor .”.
		The land issue has four separate components all of which were considered in the original Land Bill of 2001, which in some sense propelled the opposition movement against Hugo Chavez, which saw that bill as a threat to the right to private property provided by the 2000 Chavez Constitution.
	www.vcrisis.com /print.php?content=letters/200501061352 (1379 words)

	Massimo's photoblog - Entries from Sunday, October 31. 2004
		This photo was taken in venezuela in January on the highway to caracas, in the state of Cojedes, in the llanos (the wet plains at the center of Venezuela).
		The governor of the state Cojedes, Colonel Liutenent of the National Guard Jhonny Yanez, has been elected with a ticket of Chavez political party.
		The recall referendum ended with the confirmation of the president Hugo Chavez by an ample margin, The referendum result was heavily contested by the opposition, who denounced an electoral fraud (“megafraude”), despite the declarations of the international observers (Organization of American States, and Centro Carter) who confirmed the validity of the result.
	ornitorinko.org:8080 /blogs/max/archives/2004/10/31.html (366 words)

	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		The land recovery committee in central Cojedes state, headed by governor Johnny Yánez, has found that only 14,000 hectares out of 54,000 hectares comprising Paraima ranch -located in the municipalities of Pao de San Juan Bautista and Tinaco- are currently productive.
		Consequently, officials with the National Land Institute (INTI), the Agriculture and Land Ministry, and the Agrarian Solicitor's Office Sunday seized the estate to enforce a precautionary action intended to secure 30,000 hectares.
		Pérez Branger added that "officials of the Cojedes state governor's office, INTI and the National Armed Force (FAN) seized the ranch.
	english.eluniversal.com /2005/10/03/en_eco_art_03A616587.shtml (369 words)

	Worldandnation: Venezuela moves on land plan
		Government officials are expected to move against other large estates in the central state of Cojedes in the next two weeks, including the renowned Hato Pinero wildlife reserve.
		Cojedes state authorities have already announced they want farmers to plant sugar cane on the seized land.
		The state government recently spent $250-million to purchase a mothballed sugar mill from Cuba, refitted with Brazilian technology.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/03/24/Worldandnation/Venezuela_moves_on_la.shtml (406 words)

	[R-G] The battle for land to the tillers in Venezuela (October 2003)
		This is the course that began to be developed as an open perspective in the Clinton administration (the war against Serbia and Clinton's proclamation of the United States as the "one indispensable nation" in the world), and expanded under Bush.
		The regional INTI co-ordinator, Richard Vivas, leaving Guanare (capital of Portuguesa state) at the wheel of his dark-windowed car for Zoropo, received a phone call, telling him of a problem between a group of campesinos and three campo volantes (guards) (13).
		On 24 March, in a report published by the daily El Universal, Roberto Giusti accused Jorge Nieves, a campesino and community leader, of being one of the Apure region comandantes of a supposed Bolivarian Liberation Front (FBL), said to be the armed wing of the Bolivarian Revolution, and in league with the Colombian guerrillas (14).
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2004-January/012114.html (3827 words)

	americas.org - UK firm faces land row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Officials in Cojedes state said on Friday that farmland owned by a subsidiary of the Vestey Group would be taken and used to settle poor farmers.
		The government is cracking down on so-called latifundios, or large rural estates, which it says are lying idle.
		It recently said all mining contracts involving foreign firms would be examined to ensure they provided sufficient economic benefits to the state.
	www.americas.org /item_18191 (443 words)

	Venezuela: Six additional farms to be seized in Cojedes State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Venezuela: Six additional farms to be seized in Cojedes State
		In this way, the decree issued by Cojedes Governor Johnny Yánez Rangel with regard to 16 estates will be enforced.
		Rafael Alemán, the Cojedes State Secretary-General, said under this schedule of interventions, Paraima and Piñero -both properties of the Branger family- will be intervened next January 13th and 14th, respectively.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1317875/posts (733 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Venezuela has declared a huge British-owned cattle ranch to be state property and handed out permits for local farmers to take over the land.
		The state governor said 140 permits had been handed out so poor families could start work on the 32,000-acre estate.
		The group has operated the ranch, in central Cojedes state, for decades.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=5321 (597 words)

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