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	Huila Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Huila is one of the departments of Colombia.
		It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva.
		The Magdalena River, Colombia's largest river, rises in Hulia department.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huila,_Colombia (70 words)

	UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1961 Issue 1 - 001
		It may be claimed that the chewing habit is now limited to nine municipalities of the department of Cauca, the names of which are given in the attached map together with particulars of the population of each and an estimate (in percentages) of the extent of the coca consumption.
		In some districts of the department of Cauca, the coca leaf has virtually become currency for the payment of wages; the indigenous inhabitants receive part of their weekly wages in coca leaves, a social malpractice which has been repeatedly reported to the Ministry of Labour.
		The departments in question are those of Huila and Narino, bordering on the department of Cauca.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/bulletin/bulletin_1961-01-01_1_page002.html (1632 words)

	ACDI/VOCA - Colombian Specialty Coffee
		La Esperanza coffee is the coffee of 80 small coffee growers who live in the "veredas" of La Esperanza, El Carmen, El Pénsil, Palmito, El Porvenir located on the southern part of the Department of Huila.
		In the same manner, they are building small paths along their farms in order to conserve and move minor species that live or pass through the region.
		By working under direct relationship schemes, the growers develop a long-term relationship with their customer, which assures the sustainability of their income, since it is not dependant on the futures market.
	acdivocacolombianspecialtycoffee.org /coffees-developed-esperanza.html (796 words)

	Colombia
		The authorities blamed FARC guerrillas for the December massacre of 15 farmers in Samana, Caldas department.
		The ELN is suspected of involvement in the February 6 killing of nine farmers in the La Cristalina community, in Santander department (Magdalena Medio region).
		The kidnaping apparently was in retaliation for meetings that the mayors had held with representatives of the ELN to seek respect for the lives of the civilian population in their municipalities.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8326.htm (18397 words)

	americas.org - Indigenous Delegation Abducted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A delegation of indigenous leaders went missing on August 22 in the southern Colombian department of Caquetá as they were traveling from the Toribio indigenous reserve in Toribio municipality, Cauca department, to a meeting with indigenous authorities of the Alta Mira reserve in San Vicente del Caguán municipality, Caquetá department.
		The governance secretary of Cauca department later clarified that it was the military’s Pichincha Battalion which first reported the abduction.
		On August 28 in Riosucio municipality, Caldas department, an unidentified armed group abducted and subsequently executed Embera Chamí leaders Jesús Alberto Andica Salarzar of the Playa Bonita community in the San Lorenzo reserve and Nelson Enrique Castañeda of the Sipirra community.
	www.americas.org /item_16326 (475 words)

	Georgetown University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is organized on the last Friday of each month in nine departments, (Chocó, Valle, Cauca, Nariño, Tolima, Huila, Putumayo, Caquetá, Caldas and Antioquia) for the members of the city councils of more than 300 municipalities.
		City councils e-mails: The interns in six departments maintained the email accounts – one for each city council – in order to help city councils become accustomed with electronic mail and information flow, to inform them constantly on Program events and others who are related to improving the city councils’ performance.
		Municipalities in the department of Huila and city council have been receiving this publication.
	georgetown.edu /sfs/programs/clas/Colombia/colombia_program_huila.htm (347 words)

	Americas Cases 2003
		Salazar, owner of Radio Sevilla, in the Valle del Cauca Department in southwestern Colombia, was found dead in his apartment in the town of Sevilla at 9:30 a.m.
		A spokesman for the Valle del Cauca Department police said there was no evidence that Salazar had been robbed, and that authorities are investigating rumors that he was killed in reprisal for views expressed on the radio program.
		Cadena, who covers judicial issues for Huila Estéreo Radio in the city of Neiva, Huila Department, fled for Bogotá on May 4 after unidentified men called him twice at his home threatening to kill him.
	www.cpj.org /cases03/americas_cases03/colombia.html (3845 words)

	Colombia 11.221 - Merits
		The petitioners in this case, the Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, allege that Tarcisio Medina Charry was "disappeared" by agents of the Republic of Colombia ("Colombia," "the State" or "the Colombian State") on February 19, 1988 in the municipality of Neiva, Department of Huila, Colombia.
		It also contradicts the finding eventually made by the subsequent Commander of the National Police for the Department of Huila, in his position as judge of first instance in the criminal case in the military justice system.
		Coronel Buitrago, as Commander for the Department of Huila, was designated as judge of first instance in the criminal case in the military justice system.
	www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/97eng/Colombia11221.htm (11628 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2002
		On February 20, the government ended peace talks with the FARC and launched a military operation to retake the safe haven.
		In the weeks since negotiations collapsed, the FARC has blown up electrical towers in Huila Department as part of a wider war against the nation's infrastructure.
		The 38-year civil conflict pits leftist rebels against the government and right-wing paramilitary forces.
	www.cpj.org /news/2002/Colombia07mar02na.html (241 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.
		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/2004/41754.htm (17666 words)

	Caracol Neiva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Neiva is a capital of Huila Department, a middle class city with 170,000 of population.
		Neiva is famous for tourists as the gateway for ruins at San Augustin, located at north-eastern part of the Department.
		Local programs are: "Reportero Caracol del Huila" (Noticiero Local: local news at 0615-0630, 1215-1300 and 1830-1900, Monday to Friday), and a Misa relay at 1930-2010 on Sunday.
	www.swl.net /patepluma/south/colombia/colosal.htm (768 words)

	MAMACOCA: José Jairo Arias
		The region’s historical configuration process has been associated -since the outset of its colonization and settlement- with multiple ethnic and agrarian conflicts, with bipartisan violence, and with the insurgent and counterinsurgent war which is still raging today.
		These four municipalities cover an area of approximately 5,935 km2, that which is 25% of Tolima territory and an estimated population of 129,814 inhabitants or 10% of the department’s population.
		From its outset, it is an extremely dynamic farming and commercial center in Southern Tolima with strong ties to the Huila department.
	www.mamacoca.org /feb2002/abs_gonzalez_escenario_amapolero_en.html (1572 words)

	COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE--DESPITE STATE TERROR \| World War 4 Report
		Some 20,000 campesinos, indigenous people, students and workers marched in Neiva, capital of the southern department of Huila; it was the largest march the city had seen in more than 20 years.
		In the southwestern department of Narino, some 3,000 campesinos from rural areas of Barbacoas, Roberto Payan and Magui Payan municipalities marched in the town center of Barbacoas on Oct. 12 to demand drinking water services and alternatives to illegal drug crops.
		On Oct. 12 in Corinto municipality, in the southern department of Cauca, riot police and army troops used tear gas and firearms against campesinos who were protesting on the road that leads from Miranda municipality.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1241 (1615 words)

	The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
		Origin: Eastern slopes of the Andes in Norte de Santander, Arauca, Boyaca, and Casanare Departments, east-central Colombia.
		The subtle balance of sweetness, acidity and softly ingratiating fruit notes are promising for espresso.
		I also suspect storage problems of some kind: The "sourish undertone" that one cupper complained about tasted like bagginess to me, a fault that often comes from contact with moisture after processing.
	www.coffeereview.com /allreviews.cfm?cupdate={ts+'1999-08-01+00:00:00'} (752 words)

	Unionists persecuted by right-wing thugs and police : Indymedia Colombia
		On 23 October 2002, in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca department*, at approximately 9:30 in the morning, comrades PEDRO PABLO BERNE and MILCIADES SANCHEZ, activists in the National University Workers and Employees Union of Colombia (SINTRAUNICOL-CUT) were confronted by the police.
		On 28 October 2002, in the town of Nieva, Huila* department, comrade MARIO DE JESUS CASTANEDA, twice president of the Huila-CUT branch, was detained by the police.
		This act was carried out by agents of the Security Administration Department (DAS) and DIJIN and they were accompanied by a representative of the Public Prosecutor.
	colombia.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=361 (1072 words)

	Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
		Genetic distance between field populations and the Melgar colony was also low (D=0.016), suggesting that this colony population does not depart significantly from natural populations.
		longipalpis occurs along the valley of the Magdalena River from the departments of Santander in the northeast to Huila in the southwest (Fig.
		Durania and Palo Gordo are 95 km apart, but are separated by the crest of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes, which at this point rises to an elevation of over 3000 m.
	www.bioline.org.br /request?oc98013 (2239 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001 - Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On December 31, FARC guerrillas shot to death indigenous law student Jimmy Guauna Chicangana, as he and fellow citizens in Purace, Cauca department, participated in unarmed civil resistance in the town square.
		For example, on July 1, in Cundinamarca department the FARC kidnaped an off-duty and unarmed army sergeant and three soldiers who later were found dead and whose bodies showed signs of torture (see Section 1.a.).
		Estrada was president of the Association for the Development of Communications and Culture in San Pablo and was working on the implementation of a community radio station in the municipality.
	www.usemb.se /human/2001/west/colombia.html (20971 words)

	Mayor killed in southern Colombia
		BOGOTA, Aug 18 (AFP) - The mayor of the southern town of Suaza, in Colombia's Huila department, was knifed to death by unknown assailants in his home early Monday, police said.
		Gentil Bahamon had been threatened by rebels with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest guerrilla group which is active in the area.
		Bahamon's wife let three men claiming to be security personnel enter their home, said Huila police commander Jairo Delgado.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/de/Qcolombia.R-9I_DaI.html (185 words)

	DIRECTOR-GENERAL CONDEMNS MURDER OF COLOMBIAN JOURNALIST
		Mr Parra Castañeda was the founder and head of the community radio station Planadas Cultural Estéreo in the town of Planadas.
		He was also a regular contributor to print and radio media in the city of Neiva, capital of Huila Department, and Ibagué, the capital of Tolima Department.
		According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the New York-based non-governmental organization, at least four journalists have been killed in Colombia in connection with their work since the start of this year.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/2001/01-80e.shtml (251 words)

	Colombia - Guerrilla and Terrorist Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In late 1987, guerrilla-controlled territory reportedly included a vast area in the eastern plains, Arauca Intendancy, the area at the southern end of the Golfo de Urabá in Antioquia Department, southern Huila Department, and most of Caquetá Department.
		In 1984 the FARC, the M-19, and the EPL signed the cease-fire agreement that established the vaguely defined National Dialogue, designed to help set the terms for the guerrillas' peaceful reincorporation into national political life.
		Most of these groups were small, obscure, and capable of carrying out operations in a given region within the country's departments.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3125.html (449 words)

	HRW: “You’ll Learn Not To Cry”: Child Combatants in Colombia: 10. COMBAT
		Héctor was put at the front in a similar attack in the department of Huila.
		On January 28, 2002, troops from the army's Ninth Brigade returned to a battlefield in northern Huila department to bring in the bodies of fifteen guerrillas killed in clashes during the previous days.
		Betty, a fl teenager from Chocó; department on Colombia's west coast, confessed that she always hid if she could during a fight.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/colombia0903/13.htm (3579 words)

	Center for International Policy
		The FARC hijacks a domestic airliner, forcing it to land on a stretch of highway in Huila department.
		On July 15, FARC guerrillas in Meta department kidnap the department's former governor, Alan Jara, while he was traveling in a clearly marked United Nations vehicle.
		President Pastrana suspends peace talks with the FARC for several days after a woman in Boyacá department was killed by a bomb placed around her neck.
	ciponline.org /colombia/farc.htm (5967 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA29, Colombian Central Massif, Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		830 km² between latitudes 1°50'-2°24'N and longitudes 76°07'-76°37'W in the departments Huila and Cauca.
		In the mid-part of the region, deforestation and excessive felling of trees have produced extensive cleared sectors, where soil erosion is worrisome.
		Nevado del Huila, Puracé y Cueva de Los Guácharos: Reserva de Biósfera Agrupada del Cinturón Andino.
	nmnhgoph.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa29.htm (2702 words)

	Colombia - THE SPANISH CONQUEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They were followed by a second wave of Mesoamericans in 500 B.C. Artifacts from a number of distinct cultures, such as those in the areas around San Agustín (in present-day Huila Department), Tierra Dentro (Cauca Department), and Tumaco (Nariño Department), are believed to date from this period.
		By the 1500s, the most advanced of the indigenous peoples were the Chibchas, who were divided into two principal tribes: the Muisca, located in the plateaus of Cundinamarca and Boyacá, and the Tairona, who settled along the northern spur of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (in present-day La Guajira Department).
		The Muisca were the more prominent of the two groups and based their economy on agriculture, especially the cultivation of corn and potatoes.
	countrystudies.us /colombia/4.htm (319 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The offensive came after Pastrana told the country late Wednesday that three years of peace talks with the FARC had ended, and rebels had until midnight (0500 GMT Thursday) to abandon the safe haven.
		The move came after suspected FARC members hijacked a Bogota-bound commercial plane with 37 people aboard early Wednesday, forcing it to land on a remote highway near the town of Hobo, in southern Huila department.
		Solana offered "Europe's solidarity with his (Pastrana's) unquestionable endeavour to bring peace to Colombia" but his statement gave no hint of support for the government's decision to take military action.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/02/23/wor01.html (388 words)

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