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	Plan Colombia and Beyond: A good congressman, forced to quit
		He represents the department of Guaviare which, though only 170 miles south of Bogotá (closer than New York is to Washington), is an isolated, neglected, impoverished zone overrun with coca, guerrillas, and paramilitaries.
		Along with Guaviare’s bishop, Pedro publicly denounced the paramilitaries’ attacks on community leaders, their constant extortion of the population and the lack of government response.
		While the security forces did establish themselves in the department’s four municipalities, their presence has not guaranteed full security: the “paras” rule in the town centers, along the cattle road that follows the right bank of the Guaviare River, and in southern Meta; the FARC rule in all other rural zones.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000183.htm (2303 words)

	TNI Drugs and Democracy
		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.xs4all.nl /~tni/drugscolombia-docs/guaiare.htm (3858 words)

	COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
		The government of Bolivar Department has estimated that 60% of school absenteeism in Santa Rosa del Sur was due to the risks posed to children by AP mines near schools and towns.
		The Information Department of the Ministry of Health is currently in the third year of a project which aims to generate needed statistical data on various aspects related to health and violence in Colombia, so as to arrive at a comprehensive view of violence in the country.
		The Antioquia Rehabilitation Committeee is in Medellín in Antioquia department.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2000/colombia.html (4716 words)

	COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2002
		A US Department of State report, released on 4 March 2002, states that of the 130,000 antipersonnel mines estimated to be planted in Colombia at the end of 2001, the Colombian military maintained approximately 18,000 mines to defend static positions, while the remaining mines were emplaced by non-state actors.
		Boyacá department (10): Chiscas, Pajarito, Pauna, and Pisba municipalities.
		Huila department (7): Acevedo, Algeciras, Anzoátegui, and Suaza municipalities.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2002/colombia.html (9267 words)

	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - Jane's International Security News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		President Ernesto Samper ordered that the Caguan region in the Caquetta department be demilitarised and that all military operations be suspended for 32 days from the 23 May. This was intended as a goodwill gesture to FARC in an attempt to facilitate the release of the soldiers held hostage.
		The mayor of the Yondo municipality in the Antioquia department was kidnapped by FARC.
		The registrar, Henry Cano Estrada, was kidnapped by the ELN in Cantagallos, Bolivar department.
	www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit001019_2_n.shtml (12070 words)

	Just the Facts
		According to the conference committee report accompanying the 2000 Defense Department Appropriations bill, the chief counternarcotics officials at the Departments of State and Defense are to submit a report to Congress on the cost-effectiveness of transferring refurbished A-10s "for the Department of State's coca eradication mission in Colombia."
		Charles Wilhelm, the head of the U.S. Southern Command and a vocal proponent of increased military aid to Colombia, argued before a Senate caucus that police assistance alone is insufficient, given the likelihood of confrontation with guerrillas during counter-narcotics efforts.
		The State Department's INC program is also funding improvements, such as a runway extension, to the Colombian air base at Tres Esquinas, Putumayo, the headquarters of the Colombian Army’s First Counternarcotics Battalion.
	www.ciponline.org /facts/co99.htm (5380 words)

	War in Colombia - Volume III
		These operations, including an intensive push into the coca growing regions of Guaviare Department, were perceived by the U.S. Embassy as evidence that the Colombian military had taken steps to enhance its participation in combined counterdrug operations (see Documents 44 and 45).
		In this cable, the State Department relays its concern to the Embassy that McCaffrey's comments "have been misinterpreted by the government of Colombia, particularly [Colombian Army] Commander Bonett, as authorizing the widespread use of U.S. counternarcotics assistance for counterinsurgency purposes." U.S. Ambassador Myles Frechette is asked to meet with Bonett to clarify the U.S. position.
		However, the State Department recognizes the "definite, growing, link between the guerrillas and the narcotics traffickers in Colombia." The Colombians are to be told specifically that "counternarcotics assistance may be used to confront anyone, including the guerrillas, who is directly involved in narcotics trafficking."
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69/part3b.html (6739 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news \| FARC rebels holding hundreds hostage
		Between 500 and 1200 farm workers have been taken hostage by Colombia's largest leftist rebel group from a town in Meta department, 450 kilometres south of the capital Bogota, Caracol radio station said quoting a local witness.
		The hostages were taken on Saturday from Puerto Alvira to a nearby village by boat on the Guaviare river, a local priest told the radio station late Tuesday.
		Puerto Alvira is close to a jungle region in Guaviare department notorious for its illegal coca crops that are bitterly fought over by leftist guerrillas such as the FARC and right-wing paramilitary groups, all of which are blamed for several civilian massacres in the area.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/140035.htm (335 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 (18974 words)

	americas.org - U.S. Figures on Coca Acreage Misleading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The State Department’s announced reduction in Colombian coca is meaningless, because all measures indicate that the supply of cocaine in the United States has not changed.
		UN figures covering 2002 showed a doubling of coca-growing that year in the department (province) of Nariño – a zone only a few hours’ drive away from the most heavily fumigated part of Colombia.
		The same report showed coca increasing in the department of Guaviare – the zone where the U.S.-funded fumigation program was first established in the mid-1990s.
	www.americas.org /item_14246 (1140 words)

	Guaviare Department (Colombia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		Notice that this URL is of or just preceding 1997 because it refers to the proposed Department divisions.
		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.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/co-guv.html (152 words)

	BCRS project 3.3/TO-07 Doctoral Thesis
		The area of San José del Guaviare, in the Colombian Amazon, was chosen as a suitable pilot area for the development of such a monitoring system.
		Area description The study area is located on the northern fringe of the Department of Guaviare, between 2° 35' and 2° 20' N and 72° 47' and 72° 35' W. San José, capital of the department, is situated on the Guaviare river.
		The movement of people from other regions of colombia to the Guaviare area was mainly caused by violence and the system of land tenure in the Andean region, which favours concentration of and ownership.
	www.neonet.nl /browse/www.neonet.nl/Document/FXULKZIGJUHTKUAURRQSVFZGD.html (2092 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The project will develop the "model" from experience in three cases, one in the department of Caqueta, a second in the department of Guaviare and a third zone to be identified, where local communities, nongovernmental and government organizations have already agreed to initiate Peasant Enterprise Zones.
		The project will be considered successful when stakeholders in the community agree that they are maintaining their management capabilities, are regularly planning and setting their development priorities, are gaining access to regular support from existing state, NGO and private sector programs, and are enjoying a greater level of security in their lives.
		This national committee is composed of the Director General of the National Planning Department, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Environment, and the Director General of the Colombian Land Reform Institute (INCORA) and is chaired by the General Manager of Plan Sur from the Office of the President.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/06/03/000009265_3980702115544/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (13343 words)

	RSE: Full text
		There was a consensus in the department, not just in the rural parts but in the cities and everywhere, that it was a given that if Emiro ran for the House, he would win resoundingly.
		This determination was expressed in the conclusions of the third national summit of the paramilitaries, the Movement of Self-Defense Units of Colombia (Movimiento de Autodefensas de Colombia), held in November 1996.
		Or is it that you have to leave the country to understand that the department of Putumayo is producing such wealth and doesn’t have a single meter of paved road.
	www.ces.fe.uc.pt /emancipa/research/en/ft/marchas.html (11324 words)

	Colombia and International Humanitarian Law
		Another Guaviare resident commented: “The FARC calls it popular justice, but what they do is kill people without consulting with anyone.” He estimated that in the first five months of 1997, at least thirty people had been killed in “popular trials” because of alleged ties to paramilitary groups in and around his town.
		Although their main target was the police station, the FARC struck indiscriminately, seriously damaging the fire department, the office of the Colombian Red Cross, a restaurant, court offices, twenty houses, a school, and the hospital.
		The UC-ELN is concentrated in the Middle Magdalena region, southern Bolívar, Nariño, Cauca, Valle, and the Colombian departments bordering Venezuela.
	www.hrw.org /reports98/colombia/Colom989-05.htm (16780 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.
		These are in addition to the better-known installations such Tres Esquinas (Putumayo department), San Jose del Guaviare (Guaviare department), Puerto Leguizamo (Putumayo department) and Larandia (Caqueta department) where U.S. troops are based in a training capacity.
	www.theharbinger.org /xix/010206/colombia.html (1492 words)

	Topica Email List Directory
		Note: Reports from the following FARC fronts of the Caribbean and the Jose Maria Cordoba Blocks have yet to be released for the period: 5th, 18th, 34th, 57th and 58th.
		6) In Boyaca department in the town of Labranza a joint attack with ELN units left an unknown number of soldiers dead and injured.
		Note: Reports from the following FARC fronts of the Eastern Block have yet to be released for the period: 10th, 16th, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 31st, 39th, 43rd, 45th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th and 55th.
	lists.topica.com /lists/lascrural/read/message.html?mid=1607059527&... (1501 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The PEZ would be established in three zones, El Pato-Balsillas in the Department of Caquetá, Calamar in the Department of Guaviare and a third zone to be identified (Cabrera, in the Department of Cundinamarca, was added to the Project after two years of initial operations).
		The Bank team worked closely with the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic during Project preparation and made a significant contribution to the design of the Project by encouraging the GOC to adopt a learning and innovation approach and helping to define the learning priorities.
		During design and through negotiations, the Administrative Department of the Presidency was the lead agency in the Colombian Government responsible for the Project.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/06/25/000112742_20040625154304/Rendered/INDEX/29317.txt (13021 words)

	americas.org - Officers Charged in Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Charges were brought against Gen. Jaime Humberto Cortés Parada, currently the army’s inspector general; Gen. Freddy Padilla León, commander of the army’s 2nd Division; Col. Gustavo Sánchez Gutiérrez, deputy director of the army’s personnel department; retired brigadier general Jaime Humberto Uscátegui Ramírez; and retired major general Agustín Ardila Uribe.
		Sánchez was commander of the Joaquín París Battalion, operating in nearby San José del Guaviare, in Guaviare department.
		During the eight months prior to the massacre, residents of Puerto Alvira repeatedly complained to government officials that paramilitaries were operating in the area and were threatening to kill them.
	www.americas.org /item_6157 (525 words)

	Colombia: US-funded troops back paramilitary massacres
		No one recorded their 2:30 pm arrival in the airport's log book, reported it as suspicious or prevented the paramilitaries from setting out by speedboat for the town of Mapirip n, in Meta department, where they tortured and killed some 30 alleged guerrilla sympathizers over a five-day period.
		Corts, later forced by death threats to flee the country, said that he witnessed 26 murders and that most of the bodies were thrown into the Guaviare River.
		Some victims were cut up alive with cleavers and several people who tried to pull relatives' bodies from the river were themselves killed and tossed in, said a representative of the government human rights office who interviewed witnesses.
	www.colombiasupport.net /wnu/wnuotacol398.html (2082 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Caught in the Crossfire
		To survive, she organized the first demonstration against aerial fumigation in Milleflores, a town in the Guaviare department, a large state in the remote southeastern part of Colombia where an estimated 97 percent of the local economy is derived from coca.
		The presence of this guerrilla organization has restricted the growth of paramilitary death squads, often allied with the military, that have increasingly gained control in other parts of the country to combat the guerrillas.
		But struggles for health and freedom from violence are not unique to the Guaviare department.
	www.drugpolicy.org /library/colombia.cfm (1050 words)

	Patterns of Global Terrorism - 1995 Latin America Overview
		On the anniversary of President Samper's inauguration in August, FARC rebels attacked a police counternarcotics base in Miraflores (in Guaviare Department), killing six and wounding 29 police officers.
		Twice during 1995, President Samper declared a "state of internal commotion," invoking exceptional measures because of increased violence nationwide and the assassination on 2 November of Conservative Party patriarch Alvaro Gomez Hurtado.
		On that date, President Samper announced that he was empowering the military, governors of the 32 departments (states), and all mayors to authorize the evacuation of civilians from municipalities to combat illegal armed groups, including the guerrilla organizations operating in Colombia.
	www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/CounterterrorismOffice/patterns/1995/LatinAmericaOverview.html (1730 words)

	Project Appraisal Document
		The project will develop the “model” from experience in three cases, one in the department of Caquetá, a second in the department of Guaviare and a third zone to be identified, where local communities, nongovernmental and government organizations have already agreed to initiate Peasant Enterprise Zones.
		In the Department of Caquetá the proposed plan was approved by the Municipal Rural Development Council on 28 November 1997 and the public hearing was held on 29 November 1997 in the Municipality of San Vicente de Caguán, resulting in INCORA Resolution Number 00055 of 18 December 1997 legally constituting and delimiting the
		In the Department of Guaviare the proposed plan was approved by the Municipal Development Councils and the public hearing was held on 27 September 1997 in the Municipality of San José de Guaviare, resulting in INCORA Resolution Number 00054 of 18 December 1997 legally constituting and delimiting the
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	Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1996 - Latin America Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a 15 April attack on an army patrol in Narino Department, guerrillas killed 31 soldiers.
		A guerrilla attack in Guaviare Department on 6 September left 22 soldiers dead.
		Narcoterrorists are suspected of placing a 173-kg car bomb on 5 November outside a Cali business owned by the family of a senator who advocated reinstating extradition of Colombians to the United States.
	www.usemb.se /terror/rpt1996/latin.html (2114 words)

	Tourists kidnapped in Colombia
		An anonymous woman has been nominated for a major literary award for her blog about the Iraq war.
		Bogota - Sixteen travellers in Colombia's southern Guaviare department have been kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels, say reports.
		Beside FARC rebels, National Liberation Army guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary forces and drug traffickers plagued the Guaviare department.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1842389,00.html (132 words)

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