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	Cesar Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Department of Cesar or Cesar Department (es: Departamento del Cesar), is a department of Colombia.
		It is in the north-east of the country, borders to the north with La Guajira Department, to the west with the Magdalena Department and Bolivar Department, to the south with Santander Department, and to the west with the Norte de Santander Department, also bordering the country of Venezuela.
		The Cesar River basin in the Department of Cesar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar_Department (868 words)

	Guajira Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The largest employer in the department is the Cerrejón coal mine, which produced 24.9 million tons of export coal in 2004.
		A popular tourist destination is to Cabo de la Vela, a small fishing village located on the tip of the peninsula.
		The northern part of the department are arid plains, the Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub, in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta which rise to the height of 5,775 meters in the south.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guajira_Department (277 words)

	Colombia
		For example, on June 14, paramilitaries executed two men on the outskirts of the town of Giron, Santander department; a note attached to one of the bodies attempted to justify the killings on the grounds that the men were common criminals.
		On August 31, near the town of Corralito in the Montes de Maria region of Bolivar department, the FARC killed eight farm workers whom it accused of being paramilitary collaborators.
		There was no progress in the investigation of the ELN's killing of nine peasants in the village of La Cristalina, located near the town of Puerto Wilches, Santander department, in retaliation for their vocal opposition to a Government proposal to create an ELN safe haven in the region in anticipation of potential peace negotiations.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18325.htm (18872 words)

	Update: Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis -- Colombia, 1995
		Surveys in Maicao and the south of La Guajira Department have identified extensive breeding habitats for Psorophora confinnis and abundant larvae.
		Public health efforts have focused on limiting the spread of the outbreak from La Guajira peninsula to the Magdalena Valley to the south at passes formed by the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains (Figure_1).
		In the area beyond the advance of the outbreak (Figure_1), approximately 5000 equines in La Guajira have been vaccinated with TC-83 vaccine; in neighboring Magdalena and Cesar states, 20,000 and 70,000 equines, respectively, have been vaccinated.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00039331.htm (937 words)

	Colombia
		In 1840 the political ambitions of some department governors, the constitutional weakness of the president, and the suppression of some Roman Catholic monasteries in Pasto combined to ignite a civil war that ended with the victory of the government forces led by General Pedro Alcántara Herrán.
		La violencia claimed over 200,000 lives during the next eighteen years, with the bloodiest period occurring between 1948 and 1958.
		La violencia spread throughout the country, especially in the Andes and the llanos (plains), sparing only the southernmost portion of Nariño and parts of the Caribbean coastal area.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/colombia/all.html (18082 words)

	Cerrejon Coal \| News&Media
		Through health brigades, and with the support of the different institutions and professionals in La Guajira Department, communities receive medical and odontological services, mainly to pregnant women, children, and the elderly in the communities located within the area of influence (See more at Community Case Study).
		These figures confirm that the Foundation is contributing in a significant manner to reduce the unemployment index in the Department, to generate the welfare of the people and peace in the towns and settlements it covers.
		We highlight the installation of latrines for the communities of La Curva de Conejo, optimisation of the waterworks’ system in Barrancas, the provision of electric power to La Granjita, the construction of gravitational waterworks in the settlements of Conejo and Hatico Viejo, and the maintenance and improvement of access roads for several communities.
	www.cerrejoncoal.com /news_media/summary.htm (3249 words)

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		[La Razon (La Paz) 9/18/03, 9/19/03] Followers of campesino coca grower (cocalero) leader and legislative deputy Evo Morales Ayma are supporting the protests; Morales called a cocalero assembly for Sept. 21 to decide what actions to take.
		The letter stated that Ruben Antonio Diaz, the son of an ANMUCIC activist, was being held captive on a farm somewhere in La Guajira department; it also made threats against ANUMCIC president Leonora Castano Cano.
		Diaz is the son of Blanca Nubia Diaz, an ANMUCIC activist from La Guajira who was displaced to Bogota in 2002 following the May 2001 killing of her 16-year-old daughter, Irina del Carmen Villeros Diaz.
	www.tulane.edu /~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2003_0921.txt (2488 words)

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		In Sucre department, paramilitaries murdered teacher Francisco Mendez Diaz of the Colombian Teachers Federation FECODE on the road between Chalan and Sincelejo.
		The same article mentioned that in Matitas, La Guajira, the Aug. 8 murder of campesino Jaime Mejia had caused an unknown number of families to flee the community.
		[La Republica (Lima) 8/21/02, 8/23/02, 8/24/02] Five people were wounded and four arrested on Aug. 20 when police tried to disperse protesters on the second day of a provincial strike in La Convencion, Cusco department.
	www.tulane.edu /~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/2002_0825.txt (4098 words)

	InfoExport - The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
		A feasibility study on the Angostura gold-silver project in northern Santander department could be completed next year provided the company can raise enough finance to continue with a 10,000 metre drill program.
		La Guajira will put up US$30mn and the national government the rest, through its Fonat land use fund.
		Colombia's largest coal reserves have been found in both Cesar and La Guajira departments, and the government has consequently started production to take advantage of demand abroad which in turn will contribute to the development of the region's municipalities.
	www.infoexport.gc.ca /ie-en/DisplayDocument.jsp?did=6930 (1677 words)

	IFEX :: Journalist assassinated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The periodical was founded four years ago and is the only one that is distributed throughout the Cesar department and in the southern region of the La Guajira department.
		Previously, he had been employed as the director of the Caracol radio station and as a correspondent for the "El Heraldo" periodical and the television NTC news programme in the city of Valledupar.
		The Foundation for Press Freedom (Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa), which had on a number of occasions been supported by Quintero Torres, stands by his wife and two children (two and five years old) in their hour of mourning.
	www.ifex.org /fr/content/view/full/8605 (529 words)

	1996 Human Rights Report: Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Cesar department, paramilitary enforcers violently displaced peasants from land on the Hacienda Bellacruz in a land dispute in which the national Government had ruled in favor of the peasants.
		Although violent attacks against prosecutors and judges dropped with the decline in drug-related terrorism in the late 1980's (and as extradition of Colombian citizens was halted in 1991), prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys are still subject to threats and acts of violence.
		In September 4,000 members of indigenous communities gathered in Popayan, the capital of Cauca department to protest the presence of government forces paramilitaries, and guerrilla in their territories and to meet with government authorities to initiate a dialog on better health and education services, environmental protection, and agricultural development.
	www.usemb.se /human/1996/west/colombia.html (13314 words)

	Colombia: ICRC supports yellow fever vaccination campaign
		The Colombian health services, which have been fighting a yellow fever epidemic in the north of the country since last year, have again sounded the alarm after the death of a 12-year-old boy in the department of La Guajira on 4 January.
		Since July 2003 the ICRC has therefore accompanied five teams working in the departments of Norte de Santander, Cesar and La Guajira, enabling them to give a total of 1,456 vaccinations.
		The ICRC is pursuing contacts with the National Health Institute and the health authorities in the departments of La Guajira and Magdalena in order to arrange for its staff to accompany more State vaccination teams in their work.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5WALWL (286 words)

	Cerrejon Coal and Community News \| La Guajira, Colombia LM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Governor’s Office of the Department of Santander in a special ceremony at the Palacio Amarillo awarded Ramón Gualdrón, the Civic Distinction “Order of Meritorious Citizen, Special Category”, through Decree number 0131 of June 29, 2006.
		SEMANA MAGAZINE went to La Guajira and the Sierra Nevada to portrait the case of the Wayuú and the Arhuacos.
		A cooperation agreement, for the amount of 380 million pesos, was executed last Friday March 31st in the municipality of Maicao, to start one of the most significant projects for the indigenous community of La Guajira: it’s about the extension of infrastructure and services of the Wayuu Clinic, located in the same town.
	www.cerrejoncoal.com /index.html (499 words)

	Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología - ACO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		En este trabajo se presentan nuevas observaciones sobre la avifauna en bosques húmedos tropicales y bosques húmedos premontanos en la cuenca del río San Salvador de la vertiente norte del macizo de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, departamento de La Guajira, Colombia.
		Se colectaron datos importantes para la conservación de especies endémicas y con rangos restringidos y de diez especies amenazadas así como información sobre la distribución vertical, preferencias de hábitats y amenazas para las poblaciones.
		Este estudio demostró la importancia de los ecosistemas naturales y de los cultivos de café bajo sombra de la vertiente norte de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta para 59 especies de migratorios boreales.
	www.ornitologiacolombiana.org /rev_1_strewe.htm (418 words)

	COLOMBIA: ANTI-FTAA PROTESTS, INDIGENOUS UNDER ATTACK \| World War 4 Report
		The bodies of the two were found in the village of La Esperanza near the Venezuelan border; the killers had put AUC insignia on the victims' clothing in order to sow doubts about the authors of the crime.
		Saul Marquez Tovar, an indigenous Uitoto leader from Colombia's Amazonas department and president of the Zonal Indigenous Association of Arica, disappeared on Jan. 6 in the Colombian city of Leticia, which is the capital of Amazonas department and borders on Peru and Brazil.
		The State Department official, who requested anonymity, dismissed the idea that some of the coming year's military aid could be shifted to social programs: "The intent is indeed to change the focus as the military phase achieves success.
	www.ww4report.com /node/284 (2864 words)

	Welcome to Earth and Planetary Science!
		Geology of the Simarua and Carpintero areas, Guajira Peninsula, Colombia: Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 168 p., 1967.
		Estudios recientes en la Guajira: Geozóico (Bogotá), v.
		Chicxulub y la teoria del impacto como causa de las extinciones en masa en el Cretácico-Terciario: Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología, v.
	eps.berkeley.edu /department/faculty/alvarez/sp.html (3411 words)

	CPJ Protests: 2003
		In addition to a wave of threats that has fostered a climate of fear among the media, two journalists were killed this week in separate attacks.
		In a separate incident, the following morning, journalist Jaime Rengifo was walking to his room in the hotel where he lived in the northern town of Maicao, La Guajira Department, when a gunman shot him five times in the back.
		Although Barajas doesn’t know who is behind the threats, she said they may stem from her role in organizing a small demonstration in Bogotá in late January to protest the kidnappings by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) of American photographer Scott Dalton and British reporter Ruth Morris.
	www.cpj.org /protests/03ltrs/Colombia01may03pl.html (626 words)

	Green Left - COLOMBIA: Media ignores death squad terror campaign
		He has not been seen since and was the 60th person that the paramilitaries have “disappeared” in the city so far this year, about half of whom were youngsters whom the death squads accuse of being rebel spies.
		July 13: Paramilitaries in the municipality of Aracataca in Magdalena department stopped a public bus carrying indigenous leader Maria Torres and dragged her from the vehicle.
		She was shot dead at the side of the road whilst her young daughter and niece were forced to watch.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2002/506/27599 (1049 words)

	americas.org - Indigenous Protest in Bogotá (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On January 17, four members of an indigenous family from Bolívar municipality in the south of Cauca department were found shot to death.
		The victims were Hermes Córdoba Samboní, vice president of the Communal Action Board of the Las Cruces neighborhood of the San Juan indigenous community, and his family members John Fredy Samboní, Edgar Samboní and César Samboní.
		The four went fishing on January 11 and never returned; two of their bodies were found in a rural area of Bolívar municipality, and the other two were found in San Pablo municipality in neighboring Nariño department.
	www.americas.org /item_17597 (583 words)

	Colombia - Petroleum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Analysts believed that the eastern plains (llanos) held 59 percent of these reserves and that 38 percent was located in the department of Magdalena in northern Colombia.
		The intendancy of Putumayo in southwestern Colombia and the department of Norte de Santander in northeastern Colombia were thought to hold the remaining 3 percent.
		Reserves were estimated at 1.3 trillion cubic meters in 1986, most of which was located in La Guajira Department.
	countrystudies.us /colombia/73.htm (474 words)

	Reporters Under Fire in Colombia
		The northeastern Arauca department on the border with Venezuela is one of Colombia’s hottest war zones with leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries fighting for control of vast oil-rich plains.
		On August 22, 2003, Juan Carlos Benavides Arévalo, a 29-year-old host for the community radio station Manantial Estéreo in the town of Sibundoy, Putumayo department, was shot dead.
		An unidentified gunman shot the journalist in the southern town of Neiva, Huila department, before escaping on the back of a motorcycle driven by another unknown individual.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia174.htm (973 words)

	State Department Memorandum of Justification on Human Rights Conditions, August 2005
		The facility was capable of producing a ton of cocaine per month, and police confiscated 650 kg of cocaine hydrochloride, 168 kg of coca base, 2,300 kg of solid inputs and 1,400 gallons of liquid chemical precursors in the operation.
		Seven leaders of the group were taken into custody along with a large arsenal. Police believe the cocaine produced was sold in Ecuador, and proceeds were used to purchase weapons and munitions.
		On November 4, 2004, Colombian authorities seized three AUC drug-processing facilities in the rural areas of Pradera and Palmira municipalities, Valle del Cauca Department. During the seizure, three paramilitaries of the Calima Bloc were killed.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/050801cert.htm (4355 words)

	Anthropology Department \| Brandeis University
		Later fieldwork focused on the Wayú or Guajiro Indians of northern Colombia and Venezuela.
		His principal published work based on that research is a 120 page general ethnography, Los Wayú (Guajiro), issued in Spanish in 1988 by the Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales of Caracas in the third volume of a series (Los aborígines de Venezuela) dedicated to ancient and contemporary indigenous peoples of Venezuela.
		Principios de compensación y el valor de las personas en la sociedad Guajira.
	www.brandeis.edu /departments/anthro/faculty/saler.html (1248 words)

	Morrison & Foerster : Legal Updates & News : Legal Updates : Quarterly Report on Water Industry Developments in Latin ...
		The water department oversees the state's 22 hydrographic basins and includes state waterworks company Sabesp as well as state water and resource management agency DAEE.
		The Economic Development Ministry's waterworks department is auctioning 15-year waterworks concessions in Bolivar department towns Turbaco and Arjona.
		The tender follows the signing of a US$6.9million agreement in December between the OSE and department capitals Florida, San Jose, Lavalleja, Treinta y Tres, Salto and Paysandu to expand sewerage networks.
	www.mofo.com /news/updates/files/update730.html (2484 words)

	Colombia - Coal
		Only 20 percent of the known coal reserves, however, had been surveyed by 1987.
		Among the many areas where coal was found were the Caribbean lowlands department of La Guajira and the Andean highlands departments of Cundinamarca, Santander, and Antioquia.
		Although all these areas produced coal in 1987, most Colombian coal was extracted from the El Cerrejón field in La Guajira Department.
	countrystudies.us /colombia/72.htm (523 words)

	Fear for Safety in Colombia
		On 21 July Nora Cecilia Velásquez, leader of ANMUCIC in Cundinamarca department, was allegedly abducted by armed-backed paramilitaries.
		Nora Cecilia Velásquez also stated that she had heard one of the paramilitaries saying "esa no era la mujer que queríamos" ("this isn't the woman we wanted").
		On 1 August, Blanca Nubia Díaz, an ANMUCIC activist from La Guajira Department, who had been forcibly displaced to the capital Bogotá, was reportedly abducted and held for two hours by army-backed paramilitaries in Bogotá.
	www.peacewomen.org /resources/Colombia/AIANMUCIC.html (495 words)

	Saline Systems \| Full text \| Determination of biological and physicochemical parameters of Artemia franciscanastrains ...
		This saltwork, built in a natural saline lagoon and surrounded by mangroves, formed by a sandy-clay and loamy-clay soil type, floods with seawater during high tide throughout the year [45-47].
		The levees were built by compacting large amounts of clay material brought from the margins of the saltwork [47].
		McEvoy LA, Naess T, Bell JG, Lie O: Lipid and fatty acid composition of normal and malpigmented Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus fed enriched Artemia: a comparison with fry fed wild copepods.
	www.salinesystems.org /content/1/1/9 (7075 words)

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