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	TNI Drugs and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Guaviare is considered to be a stronghold of the FARC guerrillas, which have grown in strength considerably in this part of the country.
		In various interviews, we were told that the Guaviare serves as a "laboratory" for coca eradication activities, and local residents and authorities clearly resent being the guinea pigs.
		In the Guaviare region, the US and Colombian governments should begin by distinguishing between the poor farmers and coca farm workers also known as "raspachines", struggling to survive and those responsible for the large expanses of coca production who are directly linked to drug traffickers or who are drug traffickers themselves.
	www.tni.org /drugscolombia-docs/guaiare.htm (3858 words)

	ORINOCO - LoveToKnow Article on ORINOCO
		In the dry season, however, it is obstructed by reefs, sandbanks, shallows, snags, trees and floating timber from the Apostadero up, so that even canoes find its ascent difficult, while savage hordes along its banks add to the dangers to be encountered.
		The Guaviare is the next great western tributary of the Orinoco.
		Near its mouth the Guaviare is joined by its great south-western affluent, the Ynirida.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORINOCO.htm (1512 words)

	A 'Paradise Lost' In the Colombian Amazon
		Unlike coca fields in Peru, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Colombia, Guaviare is subjected to aerial spraying with chemicals that not only destroy the coca plant but contaminate the groundwater and legal subsistence crops.
		Guaviare's citizens should be given a say in government policies, to help put an alternative economy in place.
		Pedro Arenas is founder of the Youth Movement for Guaviare and an elected member of the provincial assembly of the Guaviare.
	www.lightparty.com /Misc/COCALEAF.html (695 words)

	Homelands Productions :: The Cocaine Connection
		This place, called the Guaviare, is the upper reach of Amazonia, where coastal savannas disappear beneath unbroken forest, rain falls for 10 straight months and biological fervor builds to near-delirium.
		The Guaviare's economy openly, and nearly totally, consisted of the monoculture of a tall, pale-green shrub known as erythroxylum coca.
		Today, no one in the Guaviare is as wealthy as when coca first appeared: In a region where everything costs double because it must be flown in, three hectares yield at best the peso equivalent of $1,200 per month.
	www.homelands.org /articles/cocaine_connection.html (5366 words)

	JS Online: Colombia Army Hunts Down Guerrillas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The rebels on the run near San Jose del Guaviare are believed to be hiding in the jungles to the east, cut off from their base and running low on food and supplies.
		A half-dozen deserters say the guerillas are desperately trying to make their way back to the rebel's southern safe haven after their plan to attack towns and an army base in Colombia's southeast was foiled by a government counterattack - one of the biggest in memory.
		At the army base serving as the staging ground in San Jose del Guaviare, 170 miles southeast of Bogota, officers examined documents found on the corpses of rebels killed in the latest combat.
	www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/aug01/ap-colombia-army-o082501.asp?format=print (554 words)

	Guaviare Department (Colombia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It describe a horizontal tri-color, green-white-blue, with a red diagonal band (per bend or per bend sinister, not detailed) with the Guaviare flower at the center.
		The flag of Guaviare is with three stripes green, white and blue, in the center of the white stripe there is a mid sun in violet with 16 rays in blue.
		In the site there is also a picture of the Guaviare Flower (Flor del Guaviare) and a cleared Coat of Arms.
	flagspot.net /flags/co-guv.html (211 words)

	Narco News: “Coca Cultivation Is the Only Option for Many Farmers”
		Since then, he has been consecrated as a strong opponent of anti-drug policies and the forced eradication of illicit crops by means of aerial fumigation, a position that he hardened during his term as a state legislator (1994-1997), demonstrating his solidarity in the grand coca farmer marches that occured from 1994 to 1996.
		We proposed that fumigation was not the solution, that it would generate multiple environmental, social, and economic problems, that, beyond that, they were unjust and unfair, that they had to look at the affected geographical area, and that the recommendations of environmental officials had to be considered.
		And this was a kind of prophetic announcement, because effectively in December the huge coca grower marches began in the town of Miraflores, in the South of Guaviare, and later spread to the North, including the towns of Calamar and El Retorno.
	www.narconews.com /Issue31/article861.html (2009 words)

	Colombia 12.250 - Admissible
		The passengers, together with their equipment, were picked up on the airport runway in the style of a military operation, without being subjected to any type of control, despite the permanent presence there of a police counter-narcotics base.
		On their way from San José del Guaviare to Mapiripán, the paramilitary group is alleged to have passed through troop training areas of the Second Mobile Brigade commanded by Colonel Lino Hernando Sánchez Prado, to be precise the area known as “El Barrancón”, without being challenged or stopped by the military forces.
		The petitioners consider that the conduct adopted by the Army personnel was not confined to their failure to defend the liberty, physical integrity and life of the residents of Mapiripán, but that their participation by deliberate action and by omission was part of a preconceived plan to enable the massacre to proceed.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/34-01.html (3550 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		United States drug czar Barry McCaffrey visited my hometown of San José del Guaviare recently, where he praised US-sponsored aerial spraying of hazardous herbicides for the eradication of coca.
		Target: Guaviare Unlike coca fields in Peru, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Colombia, Guaviare is subjected to aerial spraying with chemicals that not only destroy the coca plant but contaminate the groundwater and legal subsistence crops.
		* Pedro Arenas is founder of the Youth Movement for Guaviare and an elected member of the provincial assembly of the Guaviare.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1997/12/02/opin/opin.1.html (770 words)

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		The main exception is a 40 mile mud trench that, in dry weather, connects the provincial capital of San Jose (virtually inaccessible except by air or river) to the jungle outpost of Calamar.
		That's were the mild, graying Quijano and his colleagues come in, because their mission is to douse Guaviare coca fields daily with the herbicide glyphosate.
		In the former rubber port of San Jose del Guaviare, war-sick, dispossessed refugees were sold machetes and axes and told to walk until there were no more houses.
	www.colombiasupport.net /1995/weisman.html (5346 words)

	Colombia: Eastern Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Río Guaviare and the streams to its north flow eastward and drain into the basin of the Río Orinoco, the largest river in Venezuela.
		Those south of the Río Guaviare flow into the basin of the Amazon.
		The Río Guaviare divides eastern Colombia into the llanos subregion in the north and the tropical rainforest subregion in the south.
	www.webspawner.com /users/irishman4 (129 words)

	Encyclopedia: Guaviare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colombia is a unitary republic conformed by 32 departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing.
		San JosÃ© del Guaviare is the capital city of the department of Guaviare in Colombia.
		Colombia geography stubs Colombia is a unitary republic conformed by 32 departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guaviare (368 words)

	U.S. Mercenaries in Colombia
		DynCorp's pilots were widely known to land at Miraflores for refueling, though, according to the U.S. embassy in Bogotá, the pilots were not authorized to set down in Miraflores and, at the time of the FARC attack, they had no reason to be there.
		Between one third and one half of them were pilots, while the rest were mechanics, and over 30 were stationed in San José del Guaviare, rotating in and out for 15 day periods.
		Soldier of Fortune also reported that DynCorp had planes at the Mariquita and Santa Marta anti-drug bases, and that on at least a few separate occasions its aircraft have flown to the Puerto Asís base in the Putumayo region of southern Colombia where much of the territory is controlled by the FARC.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia19.htm (1328 words)

	Llanos -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Llanos have an area of approximately 220,000 square miles (570,000 square km), delimited by the Andes Mountains to the north and west, the Guaviare River and the Amazon River basin to the south, and the lower Orinoco River and the Guiana Highlands to the...
		It lies in the Llanos (plains) of the Orinoco River basin and is bounded north and east by Venezuela and south by the Guaviare River.
		It is drained by several navigable tributaries of the Orinoco River, including the Meta (along the northern border), Vichada, and Guaviare.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048634?tocId=9048634 (695 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Only when this FARC unit has been annihilated will we leave this region," vowed General Carlos Fracica, head of the army's Rapid Deployment Forces, from his post here in the capital of the vast jungle-covered and coca-growing department of Guaviare.
		Guaviare, 700 kilometers (435 miles) southwest of Bogota, is the epicenter of the army offensive against the insurgents launched last week that also extends to neighboring departments.
		Fracica boasted to reporters it was "very unlikely" surrounded rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could evade capture and return to the demilitarized zone where they are based.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/08/25/wor05.html (224 words)

	FARC: a sort of 'Wallenstein's army'
		Today, it is believed that the headquarters where the "joint chiefs of staff" of the FARC operate, is somewhere in the eastern mountain range, in the Paramo region, possibly in El Sumapaz, 100 kilometers southeast of Bogotá.
		It is also suspected that the FARC has a "mobile headquarters" which moves within the departments of Meta, Guaviare, and Caquetá;, and possibly Cundinamarca and Huila.
		The FARC's greatest area of control is in El Guaviare and El Meta, as well as in the eastern mountain range which embraces Huila, Tolima, Cundinamarca, Boyacá;, Caquetá;, Santander, and North Santander departments.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/1995/2245_farc.html (2166 words)

	Plan Colombia and Beyond: Why is this man crying?
		The Mapiripán massacre, which began on July 15, 1997 and lasted for several days, was one of the worst of the hundreds of massacres Colombia has suffered during the past twenty years.
		Mapiripán was a key link in the coca economy of a longtime guerrilla-held zone, a remote area on the border between Meta and Guaviare departments.
		How is it possible that the paramilitaries, in their passage along the Guaviare River, could pass through the [riverine] checkpoint at the base’s entrance without being detected by the highly trained professional soldiers stationed there, who had been given such powerful weaponry?”
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000059.htm (2250 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Big Money Involved in Colombian Conflict! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The study revealed 83.51 percent of the herbicidal fumigation undertaken during the study period by the U.S. agencies covered zones under guerrilla control in the departments of Caqueta and Guaviare, in the southeast of the country.
		It also noted that the municipalities of Cartagena del Chaira, Caqueta, Miraflores and Guaviare were the sites of 43 percent of the total herbicides used in the Amazon region in 1998, when the plan covered 19 municipalities.
		The objective of McCaffrey, in declaring that the increase of coca crops has been concentrated in the zones under guerrilla influence, was "to conceal the categorical failure of the U.S. strategy against drugs and to clean up its reputation and that of the Colombian police," Vargas declared.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread604.shtml (829 words)

	Apr19-23-99
		The southern municipalities of Guaviare and Caquetà;, where the project is being piloted (the project will be piloted in a third area to be determined), figure among five municipalities from which President-elect Andres Pastrana in July 1998 pledged to remove security forces following landmark peace discussions with rebel forces.
		The proposals to establish peasant enterprise zones in Guaviare and Caquetà; were approved by the Colombian Government in December 1997; the project was effective in September 1998.
		So it was that the first thing the peasants in Guaviare identified as a priority for their township was street lighting.
	www.worldbank.org /html/today/archives/html/apr19-23-99.htm (2956 words)

	ABC News: Colombian Army Finds Rebel Arms Stockpile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Colombian soldier speaks on a radio at a rebel bomb-making facility found deep in the jungles of Guaviare Provence, in southern Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005.
		The seizure of the encampment shown to a handful of journalists on Tuesday, four days after troops discovered it in the jungles of southern Colombia's Guaviare state was the latest blow the army has dealt the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.
		But the clandestine munitions factory and the massive stockpiles of explosives, grenades, mortars and ammunition underscores the magnitude of the task the army faces as it wages an offensive against jungle strongholds of the FARC, which has been battling to topple a succession of elected governments for 40 years.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=463427 (749 words)

	Dyncorp - U.S. Launches Covert Program to Aid Colombia [Free Republic]
		But one pilot said he had conducted a number of missions that went well beyond the scope of that definition, including assisting in the deployment of Colombian counterinsurgency troops.
		Dyncorp personnel who were based at San Jose del Guaviare before the U.S. withdrawal said they were under strict orders not to talk to reporters.
		One U.S. reporter who attempted to talk to Dyncorp pilots at San Jose del Guaviare said he was threatened with banishment from the U.S. Embassy if he ever attempted to approach Dyncorp personnel again.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37a1f4302449.htm (1501 words)

	Weekly News Update on the Americas #447 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While the companies officially provide pilot training and technical support for coca and poppy eradication flights, one pilot said he had conducted a number of missions that went well beyond that scope, including assisting in the deployment of Colombian counterinsurgency troops.
		Dyncorp personnel who were based at San Jose del Guaviare before the strategic redeployment said they were under strict orders not to talk to reporters.
		One US reporter who sought to talk to Dyncorp pilots at San Jose del Guaviare said he was threatened with banishment from the US Embassy if he ever tried to approach Dyncorp personnel again.
	www.colombiasupport.net /wnu/wnu082398.html (632 words)

	Latest News - The War on Drugs May Doom Jungle Towns
		But others say that communities dependent on cocaine have no reason to exist and should be swallowed back up by the rain forest.
		For much of the past century, Colombian officials urged homesteaders to settle in Miraflores and other parts of Guaviare to solidify the nation's claim to the territory, which lies in the Amazon River basin near Brazil.
		In the 1980s, Guaviare farmers began growing coca and selling the leaves to traffickers, who processed them into cocaine.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking2/JungleTowns.html (1122 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		San Jose del Guaviare -- a remote town in Colombia's eastern lowlands -- epitomizes the turnaround.
		Today, an army base in San Jose del Guaviare is again the nerve center for military and counter-drug operations in cocaine-producing Guaviare state.
		U.S.-provided aircraft used to fumigate coca crops were parked Friday on an airfield here -- along with a U.S. State Department cargo plane that had made an emergency landing after losing one of its engines.
	www.mapinc.org /tlcnews/v01/n1705/a01.htm (630 words)

	The Center for Public Integrity
		Barrancón, an island in the Guaviare River, is a U.S. Special Forces training site that is a 10-minute drive from a Colombian army base and airfield at San José del Guaviare, from which U.S. government and contract personnel conduct counternarcotics operations.
		The planes carried 15 paramilitary operatives loyal to Castaño, armed with machetes and knives, several tons of supplies, and leaflets addressed "To the People of the Guaviare," warning them to cease their cooperation with the guerrillas.
		The Castaño paramilitaries were joined by others, and the force totaled about 100 men by the time it reached Mapiripán, about a two-hour drive to the northeast.
	www.publicintegrity.org /report.aspx?aid=515&sid=200 (1348 words)

	Presidential Re-Election in Colombia Good News for Paramilitaries
		One concrete case where paramilitaries continue to maintain control is in the southern province of Guaviare in the Colombian Amazon.
		The Guaviare Block is not currently involved in negotiations with the government.
		While President Uribe put out an arrest warrant for “Cuchillo” after Arenas’ denunciations, almost three weeks have passed and the paramilitary commander is still at large.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia220.htm (849 words)

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