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In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  Atlas - Colombia Map
Colombia is poised for muted growth in the next several years, marking continued recovery from the severe 1999 recession when GDP fell by about 4%.
Among the largest universities are the National University of Colombia (1867) in Bogotá, the University of Cartagena (1827) in Cartagena, the University of Antioquia (1822) in Medellín, and the University of Nariño (1827) in Pasto.
Colombia, officially Republic of Colombia, republic in north-western South America, bordered on the north by Panama and the Caribbean Sea, on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, on the south by Peru and Ecuador, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
map.freegk.com /colombia/colombia.php   (3154 words)

  
  Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress of Colombia or Congreso, which consists of the 166-seat House of Representatives of Colombia and the 102-seat Senate of Colombia Members of both houses are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms.
Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 km² being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent.
Colombia has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated her from ancient, to colonial and modern times.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia   (2035 words)

  
 Definition of Colombia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is bound to the north and north-west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama and the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress or Congreso, which consists of the 102-seat Senate and the 166-seat Chamber of Representatives.
Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 sq km being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Colombia   (1438 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
To the north is found the Caribbean Sea, while it borders Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south, and Panama and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress or Congreso, which consists of the Senate or Senado of 102 seats and the House of Representatives or Camara de Representantes of 166 seats.
Ethnic diversity in Colombia is a result of the intermingling of indigenous Amerindians, Spanish colonists, and African slaves, producing a mixture of mestizos (58%), whites (20%), mulattos (14%), fls (4%), and mixed fl-Amerindians (3%).
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Colombia   (1255 words)

  
 Colombia information - Search.com
The word "Colombia" comes from the name of Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, Cristoforo Colombo in Italian) and was conceived by the revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to the New World, especially to all American territories and colonies under Spanish and Portuguese rule.
Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometres (439,736 sq. mi) being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent.
The Andes range is located in Colombia from Southwest (Ecuador boarder) toward Northeast (Venezuela boarder) and is divided in the Colombian Massif (Macizo Colombiano) in three ranges (East Range, Centre Range and West Range) that form two long valleys, Magdalena and Cauca follow by the rivers of the same name.
www.search.com /reference/Colombia   (2880 words)

  
 IB communications
Communicating the IB Many people support the task of explaining and promoting the mission and work of the IB to parents, students, governments, universities and others.
PowerPoint presentations have been developed to help communicate the IB to audiences new to the organization and its programmes.
We also maintain details of publications authored and speeches made at IB events or by IB people.
www.ibo.org /communications   (195 words)

  
 Colombia Transportation and Communications - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Colombia's terrain had been even more challenging to the railroads than to the surface road system, and maintaining the railroads was very expensive.
Colombia was served by five international airports and more than forty regional airports located throughout the country.
Colombia had one of the oldest privately operated national airlines, dating back to 1919.
www.photius.com /countries/colombia/economy/colombia_economy_transportation_and_c~1069.html   (1159 words)

  
 COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
Colombia voted in favor of the December 1999 UN General Assembly resolution supporting the Mine Ban Treaty, as it had in 1997 and 1998.
Colombia is perhaps the country most affected by mines in the Americas region.
Some communities are unable to produce food or earn money needed to survive; others suffer tremendous economic losses due to the mining of productive agricultural lands and the death of their farm animals.
www.icbl.org /lm/2000/colombia.html   (4716 words)

  
 Colombia (02/05)
Colombia's Ministry of Defense, charged with the country's internal and external defense and security, has an army, navy--including marines and coast guard--air force, and national police under the leadership of a civilian Minister of Defense.
Colombia is in the process of renovating and expanding their Cartagena refinery in order to meet its domestic demands and eventually export more refined products.
Colombia was a participant in the December 1994 and April 1998 Summits of the Americas and followed up on initiatives developed at the summit by hosting two post-summit, ministerial-level meetings on trade and science and technology.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35754.htm   (5292 words)

  
 Print news - IPS Inter Press Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled that parliament must modify a bill it passed on the exercise of journalism, in a ruling that revived the controversy over a profession in which censorship, intimidation and even death threats have become routine.
According to FLIP, 154 journalists in Colombia were the victims of violations of freedom of the press between January 2002 and May 2003, including seven who were killed because of their reporting, 98 who received threats, 21 victims of kidnapping, and 10 who survived attacks by illegal armed groups.
There are around 30 communication faculties that provide journalism degrees in Colombia, but there are no official figures on the average annual number of graduates, or on the number of unemployed journalists.
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=19774   (812 words)

  
 News Archive - Colombia
World Vision Colombia, with the support of WV Taiwan, has begun the Guatiguará Emergency Feeding Program (GEFP) in the squatter neighbourhood of Guatiguará, which lies about 15 km southwest of the city of Bucaramanga, north east of Colombia.
World Vision Colombia is part of the Infancy Alliance, which is made up of 13 institutions interested in offering the government a real perspective that allows the transformation of public policies that defend and value the life of children.
Bogota, the capital of Colombia, is located in the central region of the country, on a mountainous area.
www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/lacro/colombia.htm   (1527 words)

  
 The Current Status of Telecommunications in Colombia
In Colombia, 26 state-owned companies provide local telephone service, 13 are municipal ones, and 12 have been set up by the State and the territorial administrations to provide local telephone service in mid-sized cities.
In Colombia, the development process in the electronics industry for telecommunications can briefly be summarized as a strategic one based on state purchases, but which was never in control of a significant market share.
In Colombia (reached over 75 percent during the '90s), due to a lack of policies towards desegregated technological packages and a lack of promotion of local industry through purchases, no development alternatives were created.
www.comsoc.org /ci/private/1996/may/potes.html   (5816 words)

  
 COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2001
Colombia participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties in September 2000, with a delegation led by the Ambassador of its Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, Camilo Reyes Rodríguez.
Colombia is a past producer of antipersonnel landmines.
The significant impact of continued use of landmines by guerrilla groups in Colombia is increasingly evident, as new victims are reported on a regular basis, as well as forced displacement of communities and denial of use of agricultural lands.
www.icbl.org /lm/2001/colombia   (6983 words)

  
 Colombia - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is bound by Panama and the Caribbean Sea to the northwest, Venezuela to the northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
(4.) Eastern Colombia which is east of the Andes and comprises the vast Llanos or plains in the northern area as well as the Selvas or jungle forests in the south.
Colombia can be divided into three climatic zones depending on altitude.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/colombo.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Colombia's Airports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Colombia Civil Aviation Authority and Hughes Network Systems implement a digital, full-mesh satellite communication network that integrates traffic control voice and data, weather data, air-to-ground radio transmissions and more in one highly reliable, highly economical system.
Or, of a more "mission critical" communication application than the systems that give air navigation professionals the information they need to ensure safe and timely takeoffs, landings and over flights within their purviews.
Colombia, like many countries, used terrestrial links as one of its communications solutions, with wired connections between dozens of airports and control centers forming its back-up communications strategy.
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 Colombia 10.456
In our earlier communication, we sent you copies of the account that Delfín Torres gave of the events, where he describes how, on February 5, 1987, the Army attacked the peasant community, detained and mistreated 18 peasants who were working the land, and stripped the women who worked with them.
This year alone, the peasants of the communities of Yondó, Turbo and Puerto Valdivia, to cite just three cases, were bombed by the army immediately after clashes with the guerrilla movement.
We further demonstrated that in Colombia, the National Army has often attempted to justify its extrajudicial executions by saying that they occurred in clashes with guerrillas and we illustrated that fact by documenting similar events that occurred in Puerto Valdivia and Yondó (Antioquia).
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/93eng/Colombia.10456.htm   (3773 words)

  
 Plan Colombia
The Government of Colombia developed "Plan Colombia" as an integrated strategy to meet the most pressing challenges confronting Colombia today -- promoting the peace process, combating the narcotics industry, reviving the Colombian economy, and strengthening the democratic pillars of Colombian society.
In response to Plan Colombia, and in consultation with the Colombian Government, the United States is providing a $1.3 billion total U.S. interagency assistance package to Colombia.
The total U.S. interagency assistance package will help Colombia address the broad range of complex and inter-related challenges it faces -- its efforts to fight the illicit drug trade, to increase the rule of law, to protect human rights, to expand economic development, to institute judicial reform, and to foster peace.
www.state.gov /p/wha/rls/fs/2001/1042.htm   (953 words)

  
 Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Colombia possesses the islands of Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia in the Caribbean and Malpelo and other small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Colombia's largest city is its capital Bogotá, other major cities include Cali, Medellín, and Barranquilla.
Colombia is the only South American country that has coasts in both the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.
www.info-pedia.net /about/colombia   (884 words)

  
 Stabilizing Political and Economical Environment Boost Data Communications Services Market in Colombia | NetStumbler.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The market has matured over the past decade owing to the growing communication needs of corporates and the intense activity of service providers in terms of solutions releases.
Increasing real-time business communications between headquarters and remote offices is fueling an uptake of data communications network solutions in multinational and large local companies.
Colombia Data Communications Services Markets is part of the 9736 subscription.
www.netstumbler.com /newswire/2005/09/13/stabilizing_political_and_economical_environment_boost_data_comm   (697 words)

  
 Information Technology in Colombia
Colombia, like many of its Latin American neighbors, has been experiencing many changes recently in the state of telecommunications in the country.
Colombia is connected to the US, Chile, and Venezuela through a TELEPORT, IBS/INTELSAT service in Bogota that provides high speed voice, data, video, and fax transmission for point-to-point connections through a COMSAT partnership.
Colombia is experiencing a demand for Wide Area Networks and Local Area Network interconnection that has created growth in the data communications services market.
www.american.edu /carmel/HB6458A/telecommunications.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Statements: Death of Ingrid Washinawatok & two other U'wa supporters in Colombia
Colombia, with the worst human rights record in the hemisphere, is currently the largest recipient of U.S. military aid anywhere outside of the Middle East.
Ingrid was in Colombia visiting a group of Indians, who of course are threatened by genocide, and on the way back she was kidnapped and later killed.
The Colombia Support Network deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the murder of three United States citizens who were kidnapped near the U'Wa lands in Arauca in Eastern Colombia.
www.alphacdc.com /treaty/ingrid-s.html   (6688 words)

  
 UNSC: Annual Report Part V
Communications concerning the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Communications concerning the situation relating to Nagorny Karabakh and relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Communications relating to the implementation of the agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
www.un.org /Docs/sc/annual03_pt5   (299 words)

  
 Colombia
Colombia is bordered on the northwest by Panama, on the east by Venezuela and Brazil, and on the southwest by Peru and Ecuador.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Colombia became one of the international centers for illegal drug production and trafficking, and at times the drug cartels (the Medillin and Cali cartels were the most notorious) virtually controlled the country.
Colombia - Colombia, officially Republic of Colombia, republic (1995 est.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107419.html   (1436 words)

  
 Colombia
The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Several hundred members of a right-wing paramilitary militia that held sway for years over much of Colombia's coffee-growing region have agreed to lay down their arms in exchange for a government amnesty, officials said Friday.
BOGOTA, Colombia Several hundred members of a right-wing paramilitary militia that held sway for years over much of Colombia's coffee-growing region have agreed to lay down their arms in exchange for a government amnesty, officials said Friday.
Colombia Goldfields Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.
www.newsbug.net /topica/colombia.php   (471 words)

  
 WWF - New national park designated in Colombia
Santiago de Cali, Colombia – WWF is celebrating the recent declaration of the Serranía de los Yariguíes as a national park.
By signing the deal, Colombia reduces the amount of debt with the United States in exchange for conservation actions in the country’s tropical forests.
WWF Colombia works in the Chocó region, Northern Andes, and Orinoco Basin, coordinating its conservation and sustainable development strategies with strategies related to environmental education, capacity building, environmental policy, and communications.
www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=20950&uLangID=1   (719 words)

  
 News from Latin America - May 25, 2000
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - In Colombia, the Communications Ministry has delayed the presentation of bids by 13 companies to operate wireless broadband services using new technology.
Colombia's Communications Ministry has postponed to June 13 from May 31 the presentation of bids for licenses to operate wireless broadband services using Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS) technology, ministry representative Marisol Lugo said.
The 13 companies that registered to bid are: Telecom, ETB, FirstCom Colombia, Celumovil, Emtelco, Metrotel, Etell, Escarsa, Tecnovision, Teledifusion, United States-based Firstmark, US-based Impsat (IMPT: Research, Estimates) and Puerto Rico's NewComm.
money.cnn.com /2000/05/25/emerging_markets/bna_summary   (899 words)

  
 Communications Markets in Colombia - Research and Markets - Market Research Reports
After a harsh and prolonged recession that halted main-line growth and forced many operators to incur substantial losses and some to even face liquidation, Colombia’s economy and telecoms sector are turning the corner.
The fixed and mobile markets are more dynamic than ever, with a re-energized Telecom fighting for market share and three mobile operators competing for a larger share of subscribers and revenues in a market with high growth potential.
Three years ago, Colombia’s telecoms sector was dominated by local companies, but at present, Mexican and Spanish companies dominate the mobile market and are slowly entering the fixed segment.
www.researchandmarkets.com /reportinfo.asp?report_id=4774   (261 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | October 22, 2003: Headlines: COS - Colombia: COS - Bolivia: Study Abroad: Duke News and ...
October 22, 2003: Headlines: COS - Colombia: COS - Bolivia: Study Abroad: Duke News and Communications: Colombia RPCV Margaret Riley, head of the Study Abroad office at Duke University, announced that that students can return to Bolivia's capital city now that the U.S. State Department has lifted its travel warning
Colombia RPCV Margaret Riley, head of the Study Abroad office at Duke University, announced that that students can return to Bolivia's capital city now that the U.S. State Department has lifted its travel warning
Throughout the week, Duke’s Office of Study Abroad has been communicating regularly with the students’ parents and the Bolivia-based officials running the program.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2024808.html   (1191 words)

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