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	Colombia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Colombia’s chief ocean ports, however, lie on the Caribbean coast to the north: Santa Marta, Cartagena, and Barranquilla.
		Colombia settled (1917) its boundary disputes with Ecuador, and in 1934 a border clash with Peru over the town of Leticia was settled by the League of Nations in Colombia’s favor.
		Colombia’s economy began to recover from the setbacks of the early 1970s as economic diversification and incentives to lure foreign capital into the country were initiated.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Colombia.html (2825 words)

	Republic of Colombia
		Colombia is bordered by Panama and the Caribbean Sea on the north, Venezuela and Brazil on the east, Equador and Peru on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
		Colombia's topography is characterized by the Andean Cordillera range, situated in the west-central part of the country, and which stretches from north to south, almost along the whole length of the country.
		Colombia is situated almost entirely in the arid zone between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
	www.ciesin.org /decentralization/English/CaseStudies/colombia.html (1654 words)

	Register of Debates Page Headings
		The Army-Death of Alexander Smyth-Tea and Coffee-Salt (House of Representatives)
		Assay of Gold-Question of Order-Illinois Canal (House of Representatives)
		The Committee of Investigation-The Tariff (House of Representatives)
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/llrd_browse.html (2082 words)

	Colombia information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Legislative branch: 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.
		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.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Colombia (2889 words)

	Colombia - Colombian Business Etiquette, Manners, Cross Cultural Communication, and Geert Hofstede Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Colombia has a population of approximately 33 Million with an ethnic composition of 58 percent mestizo, 20 percent European, 14 percent mulatto, and the remaining of African descent (living on the north coastal areas), and mixed African-Amerindian.
		The Republic of Colombia is a unitary, multiparty republic with two legislative houses: the 102-seat Senate and the 161-seat House of Representatives.
		Colombia is divided by three mountain ranges, and this has led to the development of strong regional movements.
	www.cyborlink.com /besite/colombia.htm (1115 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Violence Mars Colombia Race
		FLORENCIA, Colombia -- In the final stage of his reelection bid, Congressman Luis Fernando Almario sat hunched on a low bed, greeting voters one by one in a sweltering bedroom far from the palm-lined plazas and parks where politicians in Florencia have shouted out speeches for years.
		It also had rich symbolic value: The house belonged to his friend, Senate candidate Juan Carlos Claros, who was in the Immaculate Mary Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the face.
		Almario's split-level house in a comfortable neighborhood of Florencia sits in front of a small park and basketball court, a prime selling point for his three children when he bought it years ago.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A2178-2002Mar9?language=printer (1263 words)

	Central Amer Free Trade, HURTS COLOMBIA? \| Colombia Guide
		Colombia has just continues to set on it so I imagine the opportunity will pass them and when it is all done they will be the one without a chair when the music stops.
		There is a timetable set for the negotiations and it has been fulfilled, all the dates that have been set have been acomplished and even the next negotiation this month will be attended by all the interested parties including the US agricultural team which had originally conveniently excused themselves as August was holiday season.
		And just for one instant realize that the trade agreement although very important for Colombia is of prime interest for the US in these day and age of free trade agreements, Mr Bush wants under his record to be the one to secure the 500 million Latinamerican consumers.
	www.poorbuthappy.com /colombia/node/11941 (1539 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Americas: Colombia
		The wife of Colombia's Internal Affairs director, Araújo Noguera was apparently executed by guerrillas during a Colombian army rescue attempt.
		The massacre took place as Turbay, chair of the Peace Commission in Colombia's House of Representatives, and his companions were headed toward a meeting with guerrilla leaders in Los Pozos.
		Colombia continued to be an extremely dangerous place for human rights defenders as well as for government investigators handling human rights and international humanitarian law investigations.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/americas4.html (4111 words)

	CNN - Ruling Liberals take early lead in Colombia voting - March 8, 1998
		BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- About 30 percent of Colombia's voters turned out Sunday in a violence-scarred congressional election in which as many as 19 people died in attacks by leftist rebels trying to disrupt the balloting.
		Official results from voting for the lower House of Representatives were not immediately available.
		Colombians were choosing 102 senators and 161 representatives to replace a sitting Congress that is widely seen as one of the country's most corrupt institutions.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/08/colombia.elex.pm/index.html (721 words)

	Plan Colombia
		Plan Colombia sharply increased US support to the Colombian military and the National Police, bringing with it a wide variety of military and intelligence related hardware and training, all with the goal of assisting the Government of Colombia in their efforts to resist the depredations of narcotics terrorists.
		Plan Colombia aid took many forms, provision of helicopters, transfer of C-26 and AC-47 aircraft, extensive training of ground forces who were to operate in the some of the most dangerous areas of the countryside and help in establishing a significant unified command type base at Tres Esquinas in the southern part of the country.
		Net coca cultivation in Colombia fell to 440 square miles in 2003 from 558 square miles in 2002 and 656 square miles in the peak growing year of 2001, according to the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/colombia.htm (1972 words)

	Representative Gregory W. Meeks - 6th District of New York - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Representative Meeks has been a strong advocate for a "balanced policy on Colombia," supporting an increase in social programs and sustainable development.
		Colombia has the third largest African population outside of Africa, following Brazil and the United States, respectively.
		Representative Meeks has been instrumental in organizing meetings for the Colombian delegation with members of Congress and Senators.
	www.house.gov /list/press/ny06_meeks/pr_051013c.html (256 words)

	CoB Witness-Washington Office - Colombia Mobilization Legislation
		The House of Representatives had a lively and positive debate on issues such as human rights and fumigation, but ended up with a package very similar to Bush's request.
		The House-Senate Conference Committee met in November and December to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of the foreign aid bill.
		Although the language in the final version of the bill is slightly weaker than the Senate version, it still sends a strong message that Congress supports alternative development programs, questions the effectiveness of fumigation, and worries about the human rights impact of military aid.
	www.brethren.org /genbd/washofc/ColombiaLegislation.htm (267 words)

	Politics of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Colombia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Colombia is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Colombia's present constitution, enacted on July 4, 1991, strengthened the administration of justice with the provision for introduction of an adversarial system which ultimately is to entirely replace the existing Napoleonic Code.
		Colombia's bicameral Congress consists of a 102-member Senate of Colombia and a 161-member Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Colombia (1247 words)

	Mario Profaca: Americas and Caribbean: Colombia
		While guerrillas (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia • FARC National Liberation Army • ELN) and paramilitaries (United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia • AUC) do not appear to have a significant support base, most are well-funded and control vast amounts of territory.
		Colombia has issued an appeal to bounty hunters around the world to capture wanted Marxist guerrillas after admitting a reward was paid for a rebel leader kidnapped in Venezuela.
		He was smuggled across the border into Colombia in the boot of a car and handed over to police in exchange for the reward.
	mprofaca.cro.net /colombia.html (905 words)

	Colombia - Government
		Colombia has three branches of Public Power: The Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary.
		Colombia has a democratically-elected representative system with a strong executive branch.
		Colombia’s judicial system is composed of: Supreme Court, Attorney General, Superior Council of the Judiciary, Constitutional Court and State Council.
	www.colombiaemb.org /colombia/government.html (200 words)

	Rep. Ron Paul - Potential For War
		The two areas in the world that currently present the greatest danger to the United States are Colombia and the Middle East.
		The war effort in Colombia is small now, but under current conditions, it will surely escalate.
		This is a 30-year-old civil war being fought in the jungles of South America.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr020801.htm (4959 words)

	Actualidad Colombiana IN ENGLISH
		Immediate re-election, that is to say, the constitutional right of the President of the Republic of Colombia to maintain power for a new term at the end of his first mandate was approved last December in the Congress of the Republic.
		On Tuesday 30 November, the House of Representatives of Colombia approved a constitutional reform allowing the immediate re-election of the President of the Republic, which includes the current chief executive, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who, in his electoral campaign of 2001 and 2002, always declared his opposition to immediate re-election.
		Suffice it to say that the first mission of the World Bank when it came to Colombia in 1950, under the direction of Professor Lauchlin Currie, indicated that, indeed, the concentration of land property was one of the greatest obstacles for the country's development.
	thoughtoffering.blogs.com /colombia (1077 words)

	010730nat
		The US House of Representatives gave Plan Colombia, or the Andean Counterdrug Initiative, as this year's version is known, a solid vote of approval this week even as it came under increasing political fire within Colombia.
		Conyers and other Plan Colombia opponents, however, were able to block Bush administration efforts to remove caps on the number of private contract personnel who could work in Colombia and to allow such personnel to buy and carry weapons.
		Last week, Colombia's top human rights official, the nation's comptroller general, a leading legislator from Pastrana's own Conservative Party, and the governors of the main drug-producing states all came out in opposition to the policy, according to the Associated Press.
	www.hispanicvista.com /html/010730nat.htm (757 words)

	Narco News Reports the Results of Colombia's Congressional Elections
		President Andrés Pastrana -- the U.S. government's delivery man for the $2 billion dollar military intervention known as "Plan Colombia" -- saw his Conservatve party shrink to just 21 members of the 166 member House of Representatives, and to just 13 seats in the 99 member Senate.
		Smaller independent parties gained, collectively, an absolute majority in both Houses: 92 of the 166 seats in the House of Representatives, and 57 of 99 seats in the Senate.
		The only foreign news agency to report the results accurately was the Spain-based news agency EFE, which led its story with these words: "Colombia's two traditional political parties, the Liberals and the ruling Conservatives, both lost seats" in the Senate and the House.
	www.narconews.com /colombiavote2002.html (442 words)

	Colombian Peso and Colombia currency information including currency exchange rates
		The current President of Colombia (as of mid 2005) is Alvaro Uribe Velez, and the current Vice President is Francisco Santos.
		Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, a business that helps sustain local farmers throughout the republics.
		One of Colombia's major exports is oil, which means that they rely heavily on OPEC and increasing crude oil prices.
	www.gocurrency.com /countries/colombia.htm (739 words)

	US/LEAP: Colombia: Violence and Impunity Reign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The report and press coverage of its release highlighted Colombia's continuing status as the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist as well as the near-total impunity under which only 1% of murderers are brought to justice.
		Workers in Colombia argue that U.S. aid should be directed at civilian democratic institutions, alternative development, and supporting the rule of law rather than backing the Colombian military which has strong links to paramilitary groups that are responsible for most of the killings against Colombian trade unionists.
		Efforts to hold Coca-Cola accountable for the actions of its bottlers in Colombia are part of a broader effort to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its bottlers world-wide, led by the International Union of Foodworkers [GO].
	www.usleap.org /Colombia/ColombiaHome.html (3249 words)

	americas.org - Circling the Wagons: Tomorrow's House Hearing on Plan Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will perform its most thorough consideration this year of U.S. policy toward Colombia: a hearing in the House International Relations Committee.
		Hastert, a supporter of hard-line drug policies who traveled frequently to Colombia during his days as a backbencher, has not traveled to Colombia for some time, and will mainly be repeating information that others have told him second-hand.
		While Democratic votes were essential to the passage of the original Plan Colombia appropriation in 2000, since 2001 three-quarters or more of House Democrats (including more than 90 percent since 2003) have supported amendments to cut or limit military aid to Colombia.
	www.americas.org /item_19482 (976 words)

	Plan Colombia and Beyond: Lessons from yesterday's House vote
		But the Republican House leadership, particularly Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), who traveled regularly to Colombia when he was an ordinary congressman, and who remains a strong drug warrior, made clear to the members of the party that this vote was important to them.
		As discussed in the last posting, the restrictive rules of House debate on appropriations bills allow only amendments seeking to change aid amounts, either by shifting it from one account to another, or cutting it entirely.
		Also, this year – with Plan Colombia “ending” – there is more of a feeling that a re-thinking of the policy is possible.) Look at the photo gallery on the peaceincolombia.org website to see how many cities hosted vigils in May to show solidarity with human-rights defenders and to protest Plan Colombia.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000118.htm (1079 words)

	OAS Children's Page
		In 1974 was elected to Colombia’s House of Representatives.
		He rose to the top position in the House in 1983, and three years later he became co-chair of the Colombian Liberal Party, a position he held during the successful presidential campaign of the party’s candidate, Virgilio Barco.
		He presided over the signing of free trade agreements between the members of the "Group of Three" (Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela) and between Colombia and CARICOM, and initiated the revitalization of the Andean Pact.
	www.oas.org /children/secgen/Gaviria.html (426 words)

	Colombia's kidnapped candidate
		LOS POZOS, COLOMBIA - Shortly before she was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas, Ingrid Betancourt was asked who she admired.
		Betancourt spent most of her youth in Paris, living a privileged life far away from the troubles of Colombia.
		33, she ran for a seat in Colombia's House of Representatives.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /colombia/ingrid.htm (809 words)

	CoB Witness-Washington Office - Colombia Mobilization Letter
		September 10, 2001 the paramilitaries were categorized by the U.S. government as a "terrorist" group, yet the US continues to aid the Colombia military, and the Colombia military continues its ties to the paramilitaries.
		The herbicide glyphosate (known in the U.S. as Roundup) is being widely used to eradicate opium poppy and coca plants with untested additives and "surfactants" such as CosmoFlux.
		U.S. aid to Colombia has not and will not decrease the amount of cocaine sent to the U.S. or consumed by our citizens.
	www.brethren.org /genbd/washofc/ColombiaLetter.htm (606 words)

	IFEX :: House of Representatives approves anti-terrorism bill, confidentiality of sources threatened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		House of Representatives approves anti-terrorism bill, confidentiality of sources threatened
		The statute would allow the army to carry out searches, tap telephones and intercept private correspondence without a warrant, during a 72 hour period, in cases involving individuals suspected of having terrorist links.
		During the 6 November House of Representatives session, legislators struck down an article that would have banned news media from revealing the names of detained persons during the first 72 hours of arrest on the grounds of an individual's right to protect their reputation.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/54942 (307 words)

	Act now for Peace in Colombia!
		On June 28, 2005, the full House of Representatives is to debate the Foreign Operations appropriations bill for 2006 (H.R. Reps. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts), Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) and Dennis Moore (D-Kansas) are expected to introduce an amendment cutting funding from the Andean Counterdrug Initiative.
		Aid for Colombia is passed each year as part of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill [the annual foreign aid budget law].
		From there, the bill goes to the full Appropriations Committee the week of June 20, and then to the full House for debate and a vote as early as the week of June 27th.
	www.peaceincolombia.org /06aidact.htm (609 words)

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