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	Independent Democratic Pole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Independent Democratic Pole (Polo Democrático Independiente) or (PDI), is a leftwing social democratic Colombian political party.
		The congressional movement consisted of the union of several diverse political tendencies among the Colombian left (including former guerrillas, labor and union leaders, indigenous representatives and others), including many of, but not necessarily limited to, marxist extraction.
		Ahead of the 2006 elections, the PDI and Democratic Alternative formed an alliance called Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independent_Democratic_Pole (399 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Commentary - The Presidential Prizefight '08 by Larry Sabato
		The most compelling element of the 2008 contest for the Democrats, in the Crystal Ball's view, will be their burning desire to end GOP control of the White House.
		Democratic true believers may incorrectly think that their fellow citizens fully share their opinion of Bush and will inevitably elect the person they choose as their nominee in order to punish the Republicans for Bush's multitudinous sins.
		Or Democrats may allow reason to triumph over emotion by picking a nominee who does not fulfill all their liberal fantasies but has a good chance of winning.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/com-1_19_06_LS.html (1945 words)

	The Democratic Daily » Blog Archive » Is the DLC The Problem?
		The Democratic DailyDrowning out the Noise Machine, with a liberal dose of news, national and local politics, progressive commentary and opinions, and commonsense conversation, because “Truth is the American bottom line.”
		While Democrats are more accepting of the role of business, Democrats, not Republicans, have become the party which supports preserving the best of the free market system.
		Yes the 90s were booming years for some but for many of us on the low end of the totem pole in the work sector is was the same s@## different day just like it is now.
	blog.thedemocraticdaily.com /?p=2941 (2235 words)

	polemica con lit english
		The "democratic revolution" is, for Moreno, a new and specific kind of revolution, that becomes necessary with the appearance of fascism in imperialist countries and dictatorships in semicolonies.
		Thus the bourgeois democratic tasks, mainly the structural democratic ones like the land for the peasants and the national liberation from imperialist submission, which the bourgeoisie could not, and will not be able to, resolve in those countries, can only be resolved by the proletariat imposing its dictatorship, by the socialist revolution.
		With the theory-programme of the "democratic revolution" the political revolution is also liquidated, as an specific type of revolution, which while being a part of the world socialist and permanent revolution, it combines the task of the revolutionary overthrow of bureaucracy with the simultaneous defense of the social basis of the workers state.
	www.ft.org.ar /estrategia/ei3polemica_con_lit_english.html (14176 words)

	Leftist agenda for Bogota? \| csmonitor.com
		"The work of the Independent Democratic Pole is to turn itself into an alternative for [the office of] the president of the republic," said Fernando Cepeda, a former interior minister.
		Lucho was not the only Independent Democratic Pole politician to win in Sunday's municipal elections, which occurred with relative calm despite threats of violence.
		The Independent Democratic Pole's success is part of a leftist trend in South American politics from Venezuela to Brazil and most recently, Bolivia, where peasants overthrew US-friendly president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in October.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1031/p07s01-woam.htm (835 words)

	Colombia
		The civilian judiciary is largely independent of the executive and legislative branches; however, it is overburdened, inefficient, and subject to intimidation and corruption by terrorist groups and common criminals.
		The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary, and the Government generally respected this provision in practice; however, the suborning and intimidation of judges, prosecutors, and witness was a serious problem.
		The FARC and ELN discouraged IDPs from registering with the Government through force, intimidation, and disinformation, and guerrilla agents sometimes masqueraded as IDPs to sow doubt and discontent among the displaced population.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27891.htm (18396 words)

	americas.org - Gunmen Kill Regional Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Carlos Bernal, the head of the opposition Independent Democratic Pole party for the Norte de Santander region and a member of the nation's Permanent Committee for Human Rights, was killed Thursday night along with a bodyguard in the city of Cucuta, 250 miles northeast of the capital, Bogota.
		Cucuta is wracked by violence as outlawed paramilitary militias battle leftist guerrillas for control of the city, which lies at the foot of one of the country's biggest cocaine-producing regions.
		Meanwhile, Independent Democratic Pole lawmaker Gustavo Pedro told Congress on Friday he had evidence that a paramilitary fighters was plotting to kill party leaders.
	www.americas.org /item_14394 (313 words)

	Heartland Journal Issue 49: The People's Grapevine
		Progressives and independents also won governorships in the regions of Valle and Nario, and mayor's races in Barrancabermeja, Bucamaranga, Medellin, Cali, and Barranquilla, where Guillermo Hoenigsberg and his Civic Movement registered an important victory.
		Garzon, who ran as the candidate of the newly-formed Independent Democratic Pole party, is the son of a former cleaning lady.
		Many voters, heeding the call of the Democratic Coalition for Abstention on the Referendum, left their ballots blank, thereby denying the government the minimum number of voters it needed to legitimize the referendum.
	www.heartlandcafe.com /journal/jrnl_49/j49_pg04.htm (612 words)

	Plan Colombia and Beyond: Sunday's congressional elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its internal democratic procedures are very precarious, with decisions in the hands of a few regional leaders.
		Its system of internal democratic procedures is incipient, and decisions are generally left up to its chief, Juan Manuel Santos, according to the government’s indications.
		Its system of internal democratic procedures is precarious, as decisions are taken unilaterally by its director, and the movement is limited to those who hold its brand of Christian beliefs.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000234.htm (2165 words)

	Equatorial Guinea
		The President's Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE) controls the judiciary and the legislature; the latter was elected in elections in March 1999 that were criticized widely by the international community as seriously flawed.
		Before independence the Bubis were a majority of the population on the island of Bioko (then Fernando Po), which was both administratively distinct from and more economically developed than the larger and more populous mainland (then Rio Muni), where the Fang were a majority.
		The Fang dominated the united independent state; during the first decade after independence, misrule and repression by Obiang's uncle, Macias Nguema, reduced the country's population by approximately one-third and devastated the economy.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8367.htm (9923 words)

	Dialogue in the Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The electorate had behaved in a sophisticated and independent manner, distinguishing what was at stake among the different polls.
		A number of guerrilla groups had been incorporated into democratic politics, the economy appeared to be in good shape, and the country had a new constitution.
		And power has been limited through democratic elections, the predominant means by which governments have regularly come and gone in Colombia since the 1830s.
	www.iadialog.org /publications/oped/feb04/posada_022004.asp (3918 words)

	Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Democratic Defenestration: the Ever Shrinking Democratic "Big Tent"”
		In a rage that independent candidate and incrumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman (80%) is doing so well in the election against the man who defeated him in the primary, Ned Lamont, some senior Democrats now openly talk about stripping Lieberman of his rank and committee assigments, should he beat the other fellow:
		But that doesn't faze your typical Democrat, who never stops to think that the problem may not be Joe Lieberman's apostasy: perhaps it's the Democratic Party that is out of synch with the Democratic Party.
		In any event, this is turning into a very interesting race: the more the Democrats diss Lieberman and talk openly about punishing him for not changing his views and embracing Bush Derangement Syndrome, the more they push him into the waiting arms of the Republicans.
	biglizards.net /blog/archives/2006/08/democratic_defe.html (1040 words)

	Independent Bohemia by Vladimir Nosek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On October 19 the Czecho-Slovak Council issued a Declaration of Independence which we publish in the Appendix, and from which it will be seen that Bohemia will be progressive and democratic both in her domestic and foreign policy.
		Moreover, the Czechs had no national aristocracy like the Poles or Magyars, and their leaders lacked all political experience and all sense of reality in politics which was so marked in a state built on deceit and hypocrisy.
		As we shall show also later on, there is not the least doubt that the necessity for the independence of Bohemia was proclaimed not by a few extremists, but by all the Czech parties with the approval of the entire nation.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext06/8iboh10h.htm (18409 words)

	Lieberman Launches Independent Campaign, Lieberman Launches Independent Campaign, Seizes on Terror Arrests to Criticize ...
		Although top state and national Democrats support Lamont in the November general election, Lieberman on Wednesday filed petitions to run as an independent.
		Waterbury gave Lieberman 60 percent of its Democratic vote in the primary.
		The gritty factory town also has a history of electing independents: Its mayor was re-elected as a write-in candidate last year after he lost the Democratic primary.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/10/ap/politics/mainD8JDN91O0.shtml (609 words)

	EURSOC: UK Takes Pole Position
		The Poles want Britain's support in its battle to protect the voting rights it was guaranteed under the Nice Treaty - the enlargement terms Poland signed up for.
		According to the Independent, before the link-up, Britain had paid little attention to the voting rights issue.
		Blair claimed that the constitution posed no threat to Britain's independent tax policy - despite mounting evidence that federalists were pushing to have the national veto overturned.
	www.eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/157/UK_Takes_Pole_Position.html (528 words)

	.::Dialogue for Peace Initiatives::.
		Beginning a four-year term, Navarro described his priorities as economic justice, human rights, clean government, political democratization, and a negotiated solution to the armed conflict.
		In 2003, he helped form the Independent Democratic Pole (PDI), the party that helped elect Bogotá; Mayor Luis Eduardo "Lucho" Garzón later that year.
		Alfredo Rangel, executive director of the Bogota-based security and foreign affairs research firm Fundacion Seguridad y Democracia, is one of the most prominent political analysts in Colombia.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Admin/cooper_grants/dpi/colombia/speakers.html (476 words)

	Assassination fears don't slow down candidate / Garzon's campaign seen unifying Colombian left
		He and his running mate -- Vera Grabe, a former guerrilla for the now-defunct M-19 movement -- represent the recently formed Democratic Pole, a broad-based movement of leftist and grassroots groups that has become the nation's third-largest political force, according to one recent poll.
		But Garzon's candidacy is seen as a major step to rebuilding Colombia's democratic left as a counterweight to the 150-year rule by the traditional Liberal and Conservative parties.
		But others disagree, arguing that the Democratic Pole will go on to become a political force and the champion of the poor.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/22/MN171425.DTL (1082 words)

	Colombia - Political Flags
		These 7 "Republics" were in an area plenty of mountains and forrest, along with tall hills and stuff, and they were pretty much together (if you have a Colombian map you can see that they are close to each other).
		PDI (Polo Democrático Independiente, or Independent Democratic Pole): A broad coalition of leftist movements, it is a legal democratic party in Colombia.
		The group continued, however, to work toward the goal of overthrowing the democratically elected Colombian government and replacing it with a communist state.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/co-polit.html (2565 words)

	Colombia—From Invincibility To Panic: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		The turnout in the referendum failed to reach the legal threshold, so the wage and pension freezes put to the vote, as well as reform aimed at reducing the powers of the political parties, were thrown out.
		Furthermore, the new left-wing Democratic Pole won local elections in the three major cities—Bogotá, Medellín and Cali—despite the official contention that they were soft on drug-financed Marxist terrorist organizations.
		He is the author of the Independent Institute books The Che Guevara Myth and Liberty for Latin America.
	www.independent.org /tii/news/031119Llosa.html (888 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		Since 1999, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has been contributing to the political reform processes through the participation of young Colombian political leaders in NDI's regional Political Leadership Program from the Conservative, Liberal and the Democratic Independent Pole parties.
		In response to the regional trend of "crisis of confidence" in political parties, the National Democratic Institute developed a long-term regional initiative to train young political leaders, strengthen political parties, and foster relations among parties in the hemisphere.
		Six young Colombian leaders from the Conservative, Liberal and Democratic Independent Pole parties are participating in the 2005 Regional Political Leadership Program.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/lac/colombia/colombia.asp (653 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Colombia's Uribe, a key U.S. ally, re-elected in landslide
		In second place, with 22 percent of the votes, was Sen. Carlos Gaviria of the leftist Alternative Democratic Pole party.
		According to a study by the independent Security and Democracy Foundation, 55 politically motivated murders and kidnappings were registered over the past 12 months – an 81 percent reduction from the year prior to the last elections, in 2002, when the FARC kidnapped candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who remains captive.
		As part of his “democratic security” agenda, he has put 25 percent more troops and police on the streets during four years in office.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20060528-1635-colombia-election.html (842 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Just a few days earlier, Petro, a former guerrilla fighter with the 19 de Abril Movement, which became a political party in 1990 and now forms part of the left-wing Independent Democratic Pole, had also revealed that politicians in the northern province of Sucre had set up a death squad.
		Santiago Uribe,” said Petro, whose party (the Independent Democratic Pole) governs Bogotá, the capital.
		Lawyer Daniel Prado, who represents the families of three of the Campamento victims, told IPS that the Inter-American Commission must determine whether the state has stood in the way of an investigation into the Campamento killings.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=29198 (1386 words)

	Scoop: Narconews: Weak Mandate for Uribe in Colombia
		This was not a fluke, but the result of years of hard work unifying the various factions on the left and slowly winning back the trust that decades of war and repression had worn away.
		In this year's March congressional elections, "radical" PDI congressman and former M19 guerrilla Gustavo Petro, considered the most popular representative in the lower house, ran for Senate and received the second-highest number of votes of any senator.
		Democrats took over the U.S. House and Senate because of a popular mandate so large that Republicans couldn’t steal enough seats to maintain control of either chamber.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0606/S00005.htm (1261 words)

	Socialist International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Socialist International (SI) is an International organisation for social democratic and democratic Socialist parties.
		Since then, the SI has admitted as member-parties not only the FSLN but also ex-Communist parties such as the Italian Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra (DS)) and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO).
		The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
	socialist-international.iqnaut.net (682 words)

	Socialist International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Socialist International is a worldwide organization of social democratic, labor, and democratic socialist political parties.
		The Second International was split by the outbreak of World War I, then re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and finally reconstituted again, in its present form, after World War II (during which many social democratic and socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
		The Party of European Socialists, a European political party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_International (539 words)

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