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	CNN.com - U.S. adds to military presence in Colombia - Feb. 22, 2003
		A senior Bush administration official told CNN on Saturday that additional U.S. military personnel have been dispatched to Colombia, where leftist rebels have acknowledged holding three Americans captive.
		Colombia's largest rebel group has said the lives of the three U.S. citizens are at risk if the government does not halt military operations in rebel-held territory.
		The group had been on an intelligence mission en route from the capital to Florencia, in Colombia's Caqueta Department, a region known to harbor FARC guerrillas, the Colombian armed forces said.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/02/22/colombia.americans/index.html (571 words)

	Military of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombia's Ministry of Defense, charged with the country's internal and external defense and security, has an Army, Navy (which includes both marines and coast guard) Air Force, and National Police under the leadership of a civilian Minister of Defense.
		In 1999, Colombia assigned 3.6% of its GDP to defense, according to the National Planning Department.
		Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Colombia (642 words)

	Colombia - The Military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Subsequently, the military served as the mainstay of the political and economic elites.
		The nonpartisan professional reputation that the military had begun to build, however, was damaged in the 1980s by accusations of human rights abuses and narcotics-related corruption among officers.
		In an unusually blunt public statement, General Manuel Jaime Guerrero Paz, commander general of the military forces, stated in a radio interview in April 1988 that Colombia should not hold dialogues with the guerrilla groups and drug traffickers because of their lack of sincerity.
	countrystudies.us /colombia/91.htm (545 words)

	Colombia: Civil-Military Relations at a Crossroads
		Military professionalism and the reluctance of the political elite to sponsor military solutions to domestic problems also contribute to the current civil-military panorama in Colombia.
		With regard to the issue of military participation in nation building, according to Wendy Hunter, military participation in civic and developmental roles contribute to create a positive image for the military, while it undermines the development of civilian institutions and contribute to a greater military role in government (Hunter 1996, 6).
		The Colombian military as a supporting actor is a distinct possibility, especially as the level of frustration continues to grow over their inability to stem the increase in guerrilla and cartel activity.
	www.faoa.org /journal/columbia.html (2088 words)

	Take Action: Cut military aid to Colombia!
		Colombia's war rages on and the most recent statistics from the White House Office of Drug Control Policy indicate that regional drug production is growing.
		The war in Colombia rages on and the country is still home to massive internal displacement, human rights abuses by all armed actors, and the worst humanitarian crisis in our hemisphere.
		U.S. support for Colombia's military is exacerbating the detrimental effect of the war on the civilian population.
	go.sojo.net /campaign/colombia_06 (516 words)

	americas.org - Don't Renew Military Aid to Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		At the same time, the State Department is withholding certification of the military's human rights record due to stalled human rights cases involving the armed forces and their ties with paramilitary groups.
		Colombia remains the number one producer of cocaine.
		The State Department could do what is best for the people of Colombia and the United States by remaining consistent with its rhetoric and practice on human rights, and denying certification until true progress is made.
	www.americas.org /item_20357 (741 words)

	Terrorism - Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		All three are involved in Colombia's ongoing civil war and are notorious for engaging in terrorist activities including murder, kidnappings and bombings.
		While Colombia is a formal democracy, its society is beset with violence and corruption fueled by the drug trade.
		Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid, and that aid is only estimated to increase in the short term, even though such efforts have been met with mixed results.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/colombia.cfm (1075 words)

	ACTION ALERT: More Military Aid to Colombia
		Regarding Colombia, If passed it would lift the counter-narcotics restrictions on past and current aid to Colombia (officially authorizing the aid to be used for counterinsurgency) AND allocate new military aid—$25 million for anti-kidnapping and operational support for the military and police, and an unspecified amount of additional military aid for counter-terrorism efforts.
		The Colombian military still maintains close ties with paramilitary groups, who are on the US terrorist list and who commit upwards of 70% of civilian killings in Colombia.
		Colombia is the size of 53 El Salvadors, and the amount of money necessary to defeat the FARC militarily will be tremendous, and perhaps incalculable.
	www.brethren.org /genbd/washofc/alert/MoreMilitaryAidColombia.htm (593 words)

	Who Are the Real Terrorists in Colombia?
		While the number of homicides in Colombia has dropped significantly in recent years, it is a decrease in criminal killings that accounts for the huge majority of this reduction.
		The first being that the FARC’s military operations are confined to Colombia and, therefore, it is difficult to conceive of the group as an international terrorist organization given that it only poses a threat to U.S. political and economic interests in Colombia and not to the United States itself.
		Generally speaking, the armed actors in Colombia’s conflict can be lumped into two groupings: One grouping is intent on defending the government and the country’s political and economic status quo, while the other is seeking to overthrow the government.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia229.htm (1781 words)

	Colombia - Military Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The war flag used by the Army shall be, in accordance to the law, one meter and thirty five centimeters long and one meter and ten centimeters wide, for the mounted units.
		Given that Colombia military airfield flag follows a British pattern: sky blue flag with national flag in the canton and roundel in the fly; and that Britain had a lot of influence in Latin America post independence, that would be a fair guess.
		The picture was taken from the website of the Ministry of National Defense () durign the 50th anniversary of the participation of troops from Colombia in the Korean War, under the US command leading the UN-forces.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/co^.html (2068 words)

	Colombia - Military Flags
		Military flag as legislate and as it is. Naval ensign, military flag and cavalry standart was kept without change by resolutions 64 (9-1-1961) and 4235 (1965) and still in use.
		Naval ensign, military flag and cavalry standart was kept without change by resolutions 64 (9-1-1961) and 4235 (1965) and still in use.
		In the front dor of the Military Hospital, in Bogotá, Colombia, there are three flags in plain color: dark blue, light blue and red.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/co^.html (1105 words)

	Oil makes U.S. raise military stakes in Colombia
		President George W. Bush's quick stop in Colombia on his return from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Chile on Monday brought this forgotten front in Washington's war on terrorism briefly into the headlines.
		Colombia itself is among the top 15 global suppliers to the United States, and Uribe hopes to privatize the country's oil industry as part of his push to join President Bush's Free Trade Area of the Americas.
		One beneficiary of the increasing troop presence in Colombia is Occidental Petroleum, known colloquially as "Oxy." The United States is training and equipping a Colombian army brigade to protect Oxy's 480-mile pipeline linking the oil fields of Arauca province with the Caribbean.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/colombia/2751.html (634 words)

	Doing Business: Drugs, War, and Military Aid in Colombia
		After billions of dollars spent in Colombia on the war on drugs, there is no sign of any reduction in the cocaine trade from Colombia, and the infusion of military aid has de-railed the peace process and prolonged the war.
		US aid to Colombia has been a failure to date in all of its stated aims, but the US is unlikely to cut the flow of money to the military because it serves an aim that no government official will admit-it serves US corporations.
		While Colombia's per capita gross national income is only 55% of the Latin American average (World Development Indicators Database), the vast majority of aid from the United States has arrived in the form of helicopter gun ships and fumigation equipment to kill coca, the crop grown by many farmers in southern Colombia.
	www.msu.edu /~jordanel/Colombia.html (4165 words)

	U.S. Military Aid and Oil Interests in Colombia : Learn About : Colombia : AFSC
		U.S.-based corporations lobbied for U.S. military aid and training to Colombia for almost a year before the U.S. Congress created and approved the $1.3 billion Plan Colombia.
		Funding a military with a history of gross human rights violations may implicate the United States in further abuses against civilians and could discourage much needed professionalism.
		Three U’wa children were killed after Occidental called the military to break up a peaceful blockade of the road to the drill site.
	www.afsc.org /colombia/learn-about/military-aid-oil.htm (1023 words)

	Colombia Campaign
		Colombia is the highest recipient of US military aid in Latin America.
		US involvement in Colombia is expensive, ineffective, inhumane, and will not lead to peace in the troubled nation.
		Now is the time to tell the US government to stop supporting a failed military aid policy, a failed drug war, and a failed economic model imposed upon Latin America.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/colombia (381 words)

	US/LEAP: Colombia: Violence and Impunity Reign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		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.
		The U.S. should not continue to support a military that violates human rights and collaborates with paramilitaries nor should we consider approving a free trade agreement with Colombia while violence against trade unionists in Colombia continues to be the worst in the world and 99% of murders go unpunished.
	www.usleap.org /Colombia/ColombiaHome.html (3248 words)

	Colombia - Army
		Approximately 500 of the army's troops were believed to be serving as military observers with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in the Sinai.
		Between 1982 and 1987, the number of troops under the army's command remained relatively constant, possibly belying the army's recovery from personnel cuts that some sources allege were imposed during the mid-1980s.
		A thirteenth brigade--which represented the restructuring of the Military Institutes Brigade (Brigada de Institutos Militares-- BIM)--was established as an army-level combat formation and was headquartered at Bogotá.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/colombia/colombia_army.htm (829 words)

	Military of Bolivia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Military branches of Bolivia: Army (Ejército Boliviano), Navy (Fuerza Naval Boliviana, includes Marines), Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Boliviana), National Police Force (Policía Nacional de Bolivia)
		Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.8% (FY99)
		Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Uruguay · Venezuela
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Bolivia (174 words)

	Military News - Veteran News: Colombia: Another Front in War on Terror
		Myers said the Colombian military is taking the fight to the FARC and there is a noticeable shift in the attitude of the Colombian people to the rebel groups.
		In the past, the military was content to defend certain strategic villages, bases and, of course, the major cities.
		U.S. military officials who were briefed on the new Colombian strategy said they were impressed by the plan and the thinking that went in to it.
	www.militaryconnections.com /story.cfm?textnewsid=497 (1655 words)

	Colombia - Air Force
		In 1943 military and naval air units were officially coalesced into the Colombian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Colombiana- FAC).
		Around the same time the FAC began to grow in size as a result of two important developments: the establishment of a US Military and Naval Mission in Colombia in 1942, and Colombia's military support of UN operations in Korea in 1950.
		Colombia's military industry manufactured a number of the FAC's smaller aircraft, many of which reportedly were employed in counterinsurgency.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/colombia/colombia_airforce.htm (692 words)

	Colombia unveils special anti-guerrilla force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		TOLEMAIDA MILITARY BASE, Colombia -- Hundreds of troops with war-painted faces parachuted from planes and roped down from helicopters as Colombia on Tuesday inaugurated an elite anti-guerrilla combat unit, saying it will step up the war against Marxist rebels even as the government presses its bid to cut a peace deal.
		But there has been no letup in the three-decade-old war and the rebels have said they are in no mood to compromise their goal of taking power and ushering in a socialist regime.
		Military sources have accused the FARC of recruiting new combatants, smuggling in more weapons and planning fresh attacks while simultaneously taking part in peace talks.
	www.colombiasupport.net /199912/reuters1207.html (622 words)

	US Congress Triples Military Aid to Colombia
		The approval of military aid, including upgraded Huey and Blackhawk helicopters, directly to the National Police, worries critics who point out that the police have consistently blurred the lines between fighting the narcotics trade and fighting the insurgency forces within the context of Colombia's thirty-five year old civil war.
		Already, Pastrana has pulled his military forces from an area the size of Switzerland as a show of faith leading up to the beginning of talks with the rebels.
		Colombia's previous president, in fact, became persona non grata in the US after allegations that he took over $6 million from traffickers for his election campaign.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/069/colombia.shtml (695 words)

	Colombia vote
		Grill the candidates on their position on U.S. military aid to Colombia, and make it clear that you will support a candidate who is working to change the current policy.
		Tell your current representative and senators that you have been monitoring their voting record on Colombia, and will consider it when you go to the voting booth; if they've voted to support the military aid package in the past, ask them for a commitment to push for a change in policy next year.
		Colombia is 53 times the size of El Salvador, where U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in the 1980s cost $6 billion and 70,000 Salvadoran civilians lost their lives.
	www.witherspoonsociety.org /colombia_vote.htm (1150 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- U.S. authorizes release of military aid to Colombia
		Release of the funds was contingent upon a department finding that the Colombian military had suspended personnel guilty of grave human rights violations, cooperated with civilian prosecutors in rights cases and was severing ties with right-wing paramilitary groups.
		She insisted that Colombia's military and police fight an outlawed right-wing paramilitary group with as much vigor as it combats leftist guerrillas.
		"To say that Colombia has complied with human rights conditions is nothing short of a farce," Schulz said, alleging that the Colombian military has not made significant progress in any of the three areas.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20020909-1809-us-colombia.html (556 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. authorizes release of military aid to Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Congress had refused to provide the military aid until the State Department certified that the Colombian military had suspended military personnel who had engaged in grave human rights violations, cooperated with civilian prosecutors in rights cases and was severing ties with rightist paramilitary groups.
		"To say that Colombia has complied with human rights conditions is nothing short of a farce," Shulz said, alleging that the Colombian military has not made significant progress in any of the three areas.
		A State Department official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said 16 Colombian military personnel have been suspended for human rights violations in recent months, including six officers, and 29 others were dismissed for trying to cover up the deaths of two civilians.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-09-us-aid-colombia_x.htm (483 words)

	Military.com Content
		Plan Colombia is poisoning relations between the United States and Latin America.
		The region's growing anger over what is widely perceived as a risky U.S. military intervention in Colombia could hurt the next U.S. president's efforts to revive stalled hemispheric negotiations to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
		Many of the region's governments are furious at Washington's insistence on pushing ahead with a controversial $1.3 billion military offensive against Colombian drug traffickers.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=SL25october (828 words)

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