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	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Wayuu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Wayuu inhabit the arid La Guajira Peninsula straddling the Venezuela-Colombia border, on the Caribbean Sea coast.
		According to a 1997 census, the Wayuu population numbered approximately 144,003 - representing 20% of Colombia's total Amerindian population and 48% of the population of La Guajira Department.
		Wayuu tribes are not uniformly distributed within these territories as their population is concentrated primarily in the outskirts of such settlements as Nazareth and Jala'ala, on the plains of Wopu'muin and Uribia, and within the municipalities of Maicao and Manaure, where population densities are some of the highest in the peninsula.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Wayuu (952 words)

	Guajira Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The largest employer in the department is the Cerrejón coal mine, which produced 24.9 million tons of export coal in 2004.
		A popular tourist destination is to Cabo de la Vela, a small fishing village located on the tip of the peninsula.
		Guajira • Guaviare • Huila • Magdalena • Meta • Nariño • Norte de Santander • Putumayo • Quindío • Risaralda • San Andrés and Providencia • Santander • Sucre • Tolima • Valle del Cauca • Vaupés • Vichada
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guajira_Department (271 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		We have since learnt that Colonel Jorge Daniel Castro, the commander of the police in Santander department, was involved in the planning of her murder.
		July 13th: Paramilitaries in the municipality of Aracataca in Magdalena department stopped a public bus carrying indigenous leader Maria Torres and dragged her from the vehicle.
		She was shot dead at the side of the road whilst her young daughter and niece were forced to watch.
	lark.phoblacht.net /colombiadet.html (1048 words)

	040114 EU v. PHILIP MORRIS
		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 (5961 words)

	Colombia
		In September the FARC attacked the village of Samaniego in Narino Department, displacing the entire population of 350 residents to the neighboring town of Barbacoas.
		In February Nelson Mazabuel, the mayor of Purace in Cauca Department resigned because of death threats from the FARC.
		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/2005/61721.htm (17327 words)

	Further Action on Crisis involving Exxon in Colombia
		In the course of four years they have been the victims of constant harassment, isolation and frequent pressure to accept a derisory sum for their properties, and they have been prevented from exercising the fundamental right to defend themselves and be defended, because 'Progress' was taking care of everything.
		The Catholic Church in the Department of Guajira, led by a priest calling himself Marcello Graziosi, sold the church in the village for 38 million pesos, a sum which was to be handed over on condition that the church was first demolished.
		If there is such a place as hell, they should go there to pay for this, to be purged of their injustices, their sacrilege and the bad faith with which they have acted against the humble inhabitants of Tabaco and for other things which they have done against the weakest and least favoured of people.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/action10.htm (3308 words)

	Caribbean Coast: Guajira Peninsula coast - Coasts of Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Quaternary of the Guajira Peninsula is mainly represented by extensive colluvial-alluvial deposits, and recent sandy barriers and marine lagoons.
		Spits, bars, and lagoons predominate along the internal shore of the Gulf of Maracaibo, whereas narrow beaches and cliffs are dominant along the Bahia Honda-Cabo de la Vela shore (Fig.
		South of Cabo de La Vela, the Guajira Peninsula coast is dominated by narrow beaches, minor deltaic accumulations, and spit-lagoon segments near the mouths of the primary coastal rivers (Fig.
	coastal.er.usgs.gov /coasts-colombia/caribbean/guajira.html (250 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - Colombia
		was killed yesterday in Maicao in the northeastern department of Guajira.
		TV producer and presenter Guillermo Bravo Vega was killed Monday in Neiva in the department of Huila, southwest of the capital.
		Rengifo, who presented a programme called "Journalists in action" on Radio Olímpica, was shot dead at dawn yesterday at the entrance to the hotel where he lived in Maicao (Guajira department) by two men who got away on a motorcycle.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=6677 (800 words)

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		Roger Moody and Richard Solly of London-based Partizans (People Against Rio Tinto And Its Subsidiaries) visited the Colombian Department of Guajira in October 2000 to study the social and environmental impacts of South America's largest coal strip mines on the Indigenous Wayuu population and on local farming communities.
		Translation of the information received from Guajira on 1st July 2001 (the original Spanish is at the end of this email should you prefer to read it).
		Coal from Guajira would be cheaper: costs could absorbed by villagers removed with inadequate compensation, workers who could be paid much less than British miners, and the Colombian government with its investment in infrastructure.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/action7.htm (2136 words)

	Cerrejon Coal \| News&Media
		This is addition to more frequent walks by the management of each department within their respective areas.
		Through health brigades, and with the support of the different institutions and professionals in La Guajira Department, communities receive medical and odontological services, mainly to pregnant women, children, and the elderly in the communities located within the area of influence (See more at Community Case Study).
		These figures confirm that the Foundation is contributing in a significant manner to reduce the unemployment index in the Department, to generate the welfare of the people and peace in the towns and settlements it covers.
	www.cerrejoncoal.com /news_media/summary.htm (3249 words)

	Colombia
		On July 26, the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca Department ruled that the Government should pay approximately $20 million (50 billion pesos) to 120 families of victims of the 1999 paramilitary massacre near La Gabarra, Norte de Santander Department, because both the police and army failed to take measures to prevent it.
		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.
		On October 6 in Ciudad Bolivar, Antioquia Department, ELN terrorists kidnapped a woman and her nephew who rumors incorrectly identified as relatives of President Uribe.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41754.htm (19030 words)

	News: Colombia, Clashes with military leave at least 100 Colombian guerrillas dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Humanitarian sources and indigenous leaders said that at least 12 people were killed since last weekend as paramilitaries advanced into towns in La Guajira department near the Venezuelan border.
		Leaders of the Indigenous Organization of Colombia told AFP in Bogota that in the La Guajira town of El Limon, at least six indigenous people were killed at the weekend.
		Military sources in La Guajira said they were unaware of the reported deaths but they did acknowledge "illegal groups have made incursions into the department in recent days."
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/b13edb9420deaf3249256c2c000e68b2 (529 words)

	State Department Memorandum of Justification on Human Rights Conditions, September 2004
		The State Department and Embassy Bogota also consult regularly with nongovernmental organizations and civil society groups regarding Colombia’s human rights performance and consider their input carefully before making a decision on certification.
		While we are pleased that trial proceedings continue against General Jaime Uscategui on charges of omission of duty causing aggravated homicide and aggravated kidnapping in the 1997 Mapiripan massacre, we are concerned at the amount of time this trial is taking, as well as the indictment of Colonel (retired) Hernan Orozco in the same case.
		On January 31, police and military in Cauca Department apprehended Edilson de Jesus Puerta Sierra, commander and founder of the AUC in Puerto Tejada and leader of a group of assassins that operated out of Cali.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/0409cert.htm (8241 words)

	CPJ Protests: 2003
		In addition to a wave of threats that has fostered a climate of fear among the media, two journalists were killed this week in separate attacks.
		In a separate incident, the following morning, journalist Jaime Rengifo was walking to his room in the hotel where he lived in the northern town of Maicao, La Guajira Department, when a gunman shot him five times in the back.
		Although Barajas doesn’t know who is behind the threats, she said they may stem from her role in organizing a small demonstration in Bogotá in late January to protest the kidnappings by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) of American photographer Scott Dalton and British reporter Ruth Morris.
	www.cpj.org /protests/03ltrs/Colombia01may03pl.html (626 words)

	COLOMBIA: ANTI-FTAA PROTESTS, INDIGENOUS UNDER ATTACK \| World War 4 Report
		On Feb. 10 in Peru, some 7,000 cotton growers protested the TLC with a 24-hour strike, including blockades on the Panamerican highway in Santa province, Ancash department (north of Lima) and marches in the cities of Ica and Chincha, in Ica department (south of Lima).
		Saul Marquez Tovar, an indigenous Uitoto leader from Colombia's Amazonas department and president of the Zonal Indigenous Association of Arica, disappeared on Jan. 6 in the Colombian city of Leticia, which is the capital of Amazonas department and borders on Peru and Brazil.
		The State Department official, who requested anonymity, dismissed the idea that some of the coming year's military aid could be shifted to social programs: "The intent is indeed to change the focus as the military phase achieves success.
	www.ww4report.com /node/284 (2828 words)

	americas.org - 36 Massacred in Five Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On January 28 members of an unidentified armed group murdered at least 11 members of a Wayú indigenous family, including three children, outside their home in the area of Los Pozos, Hato Nuevo municipality, in the northern Colombian department of Guajira.
		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.
		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)

	The Harbinger. Notes from Colombia.
		On January 21st Jair Cubides, an activist with the Workers of the Department of Valle Trade Union (SINTRADEPARTAMENTO), was killed by paramilitaries in the southern city of Cali.
		Intense, and particularly well-documented, pressure from the U.S. State Department and the Embassy in Quito led to the appointment of a new puppet president, Gustavo Noboa.
		It is clear that the US wishes to draw neighboring countries into their fight against the Colombian rebels -- much as they did in their secret war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
	www.theharbinger.org /xix/010206/colombia.html (1492 words)

	RIGZONE - Ecopetrol, Chevron to Drill 3 New Wells in La Guajira
		The extension agreement is for the commercial life of the fields and provides the framework for further investment to develop and produce the remaining natural gas reserves in the contract area.
		Under the terms of the original Guajira area A contract signed in 1974, Chevron and Ecopetrol each own a 50% interest and Ecopetrol would have assumed 100% rights to Chevron's installations and production from December 31, 2004.
		La Guajira is the center of Colombian gas production and supplies more than 70% of domestic gas demand, with the remainder coming from UK oil firm BP's operations in Casanare department.
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=28506 (407 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Fresh violence kills 30 in Colombia
		The first blast - blamed on a left-wing guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army - destroyed a building in the town of Peñol, 350km (220 miles) north-west of the capital Bogota, killing a policeman, his wife and child and two other civilians.
		The second attack - blamed on the main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - destroyed an underground gas pipeline in the north-eastern department of Guajira, killing at least four people in a nearby building that was enveloped in flames.
		In another attack blamed on the FARC, five women and a man were killed in the village of El Habra in the same province.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1612368.stm (306 words)

	Morrison & Foerster : Legal Updates & News : Legal Updates : Quarterly Report on Water Industry Developments in Latin ...
		The water department oversees the state's 22 hydrographic basins and includes state waterworks company Sabesp as well as state water and resource management agency DAEE.
		The Economic Development Ministry's waterworks department is auctioning 15-year waterworks concessions in Bolivar department towns Turbaco and Arjona.
		The tender follows the signing of a US$6.9million agreement in December between the OSE and department capitals Florida, San Jose, Lavalleja, Treinta y Tres, Salto and Paysandu to expand sewerage networks.
	www.mofo.com /news/updates/files/update730.html (2484 words)

	Billiton Track Record, page 2
		The blockades of the channel, as much in Bolognesi as in Huarmey, generated the immediate retaliation of the National Police that sent tear pumps against the demonstrators and, even, made firings to the air, being 50 hurt people, among them one of bullet, informed the leaders.
		Peruvian army troops with automatic weapons took control of Huaraz, capital of Ancash department, on Aug. 20 as residents shut down the city on the second day of a nearly total 48-hour civic strike.
		Stephen Byers (Peter Mandelson’s successor at the Department of Trade) has a letter in his in-tray pointing out that OECD guidelines (which he oversees) are repeatedly violated by the proposals.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/billiton_track-p2.html (6551 words)

	Attorneys lawyers abogados Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If the services of your attorney prove unsatisfactory, in addition to notifying the Department of State and the U.S. Embassy or Consulate abroad, you may address your complaints to the local (foreign) bar association.
		No current reliable information related to lawyers in the department of Norte de Santander.
		No current reliable information related to lawyers in the department of La Guajira.
	bogota.usembassy.gov /wwwsattc.shtml (3928 words)

	Fear for Safety in Colombia
		On 21 July Nora Cecilia Velásquez, leader of ANMUCIC in Cundinamarca department, was allegedly abducted by armed-backed paramilitaries.
		Nora Cecilia Velásquez also stated that she had heard one of the paramilitaries saying "esa no era la mujer que queríamos" ("this isn't the woman we wanted").
		On 1 August, Blanca Nubia Díaz, an ANMUCIC activist from La Guajira Department, who had been forcibly displaced to the capital Bogotá, was reportedly abducted and held for two hours by army-backed paramilitaries in Bogotá.
	www.peacewomen.org /resources/Colombia/AIANMUCIC.html (371 words)

	Aboriginal Planet - Around the Planet - Colombia's Indigenous People
		On 1 January 2001, Flora Tunubalá became the first indigenous governor of a department (equivalent to a province) in Colombia's history.
		Through the Gender Equality Fund, the development section of the Embassy has provided funding for the strengthening of Indigenous women's organisations in the North of Cauca Department.
		Embassy accepts the Ministry of the Interior's invitation to participate, as an observer, on a commission to examine the situation facing aboriginal people in Córdoba Department and the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Kimy Pernía.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /aboriginalplanet/around/latin/arcolombia-en.asp (876 words)

	Army discovers guerrilla’s caches - EJERCITO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
		Bogotá, three caches with weapons, ammunition and explosive from the Farc, was found, in development of military operations deployed by the Army in Guajira, Cauca and Huila Departments.
		In the place, Gaula Group troops from that department, located 1.694 war cartridges caliber 7.62 millimeters.
		Finally, in the Filo Platanares site, Garzón municipality’s jurisdiction, Huila Department, units from the 'Cacique Pigoanza' Infantry Battalion No. 26, confiscated 102 war projectiles, a hundred meters of slow wick and 10 kilos of fl gunpowder.
	www.army.mil.co /?idcategoria=74112 (208 words)

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