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	Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombia is a republic where the executive branch dominates government structure.
		Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress or Congreso, which consists of the 102-seat Senate and the 166-seat Chamber of Representatives.
		Colombia has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated her from ancient, to colonial and modern times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia (1795 words)

	Plan Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plan Colombia is an ambitious and controversial initiative aimed at resolving the ongoing, forty-year civil war in Colombia.
		Plan Colombia is based on a drug-focussed analysis of the roots of the conflict and the human rights crisis which completely ignores the Colombian state's own historical and current responsibility.
		Furthermore, it is apparent that Plan Colombia is not the result of a genuine process of consultation either with the national and international non-governmental organizations which are expected to implement the projects nor with the beneficiaries of the humanitarian, human rights or social development projects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plan_Colombia (1392 words)

	Politics of Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colombia 's present constitution enacted on July 4 1991 strengthened the administration of justice with provision for introduction of an accusatorial system ultimately is to replace entirely the existing Napoleonic Code.
		Guidelines and the general for Colombia's administration of justice are set in Law 270 of March 7 1996.
		Colombia's judicial organs include the Supreme Court the of State the Constitutional Court and the Judicial Council.
	www.freeglossary.com /Government_of_Colombia (844 words)

	Politics of Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colombia's present constitution, enacted on July 4, 1991, strengthened the administration of justice with the provision for introduction of an accusatorial system which ultimately is to replace entirely the existing Napoleonic Code.
		Guidelines and the general structure for Colombia's administration of justice are set out in Law 270 of March 7, 1996.
		Colombia's highest judicial organs include the Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Constitutional Court, and the Superior Judicial Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Colombia (724 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Colombia/United States Timeline \| PBS
		Colombia has been embroiled in civil war for the past 38 years, involving the government, the military, right-wing paramilitaries, left-wing revolutionary guerillas, coca growers, drug traffickers, and the United States.
		The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) is the umbrella organization for right-wing paramilitaries operating in the northern parts of the the nation.
		Its principal mission is to rid Colombia of leftist guerillas, which the AUC terms "subversives" who abandoned their Marxist-communist foundation to profit from the narcotics industry.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/colombia.html (701 words)

	Colombia - Government and Politics
		Colombia has a long history of party politics, usually fair and regular elections, and respect for political and civil rights.
		Some analysts of Colombian political affairs have noted that in the 1980s the military gradually began to assume a larger decisionmaking role, owing to the inability of the civilian governments to resolve critical situations, such as the sixty-one-day terrorist occupation of the Dominican Republic embassy in 1980.
		A contradictory feature of Colombia's long democratic tradition is its high level of political violence (six interparty wars in the nineteenth century and two in the twentieth century).
	countrystudies.us /colombia/78.htm (732 words)

	The Politics of Colombia's Violence
		Colombia has a legacy of violence perpetrated by the country's elites, and more recently by drug traffickers and urban criminals, that continues today.
		Also, many of the two million rural Colombians forcibly displaced by violence were not driven from their homes because of their allegiance to one or another of the armed groups, but rather because they were guilty of owning mineral-rich land coveted by the Colombian oligarchy and multinational corporations.
		It is evident that Colombia's political leaders and economic elite are intent on ending the political violence threatening their rule, if not through negotiations then on the battlefield.
	www.colombiajournal.org /colombia105.htm (1291 words)

	PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 2001-02
		Colombia is a feast for Hobbesians[1] in the rawness of its connections between crime and politics, a rawness that long antedates Colombia's massive drug industry and the way it feeds the massive US drug appetite.
		Colombia has the world's highest murder rate, about half of it by the paramilitaries.[10] Although hotly denied, AUC is ratlined into the Colombian army.
		Colombia is becoming a hollow shell of a state as much of its inner workings are taken over by crime.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/01winter/roskin.htm (3811 words)

	RES: Colombia
		Researchers interested in Colombia are challenged by the extraordinary complexity of social phenomena and by the difficulties of drawing up a fair balance between the specifics of such phenomena and the commonalities with other countries located -as Colombia is- in the semiperiphery of the world system.
		In Bourdieu scheme of power, the political field is structured upon the economic field whereas the intellectual and artistic fields have a relative autonomy vis-à-vis the economic field.
		Colombia had 10 national constitutions between 1810 - the year of its independence - and 1886, when a new constitution was promulgated that lasted for 105 years.
	www.ces.fe.uc.pt /emancipa/gen/colombia_f.html (15314 words)

	HLAS 51 Government and Politics Colombia Venezuela Ecuador
		The quality of the literature devoted to various aspects of political life in Colombia is influenced by valuable contributions by Colombian political scientists as well as the ongoing research by North American scholars such as Bagley, Dix, and Hartlyn.
		Political violence is a subject of investigation that seems to work its way into much of the political science research on Colombia.
		Karl's study (item bi 90011402) finds that petroleum is one of the key factors in shaping the structural determinants for a reformist political system such as Venezuela's, although she also maintains that petroleum and pacts may not be enough to serve as a model for others seeking a direct path to some form of democracy.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/ss51govt-dent.andes.html (1118 words)

	Colombia Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A senator allied with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was the target of a car bomb that exploded in an upper-class neighborhood of B...
		The future of Colombia hangs in the balance as its highest court decides whether President Alvaro Uribe,...
		Colombia's experience shows that this is not the case...
	www.colombiatimes.com (482 words)

	Politics & the War \| Colombia Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Colombia, women can be imprisoned for up to four-and-a-half years for having abortions, even in cases of rape or when their lives are at risk, says Human Rights Watch.
		In a brief to Colombia's Constitutional Court in June this year, the US-based NGO says that the country's penal sanctions for abortion are inconsistent with international human rights obligations and should be declared unconstitutional.
		Colombia is destined to always be in internal strife unless one side is beaten...crushed.
	poorbuthappy.com /colombia/taxonomy/term/8 (2875 words)

	Parameters : Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations for US Involvement. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Very early, the state gave birth to twins--politics, the means of influencing the state, and crime, the means of avoiding the state.
		The combination of all three, the interface of the state with politics and crime, is called corruption.
		Politics and crime grow from the same impulse, namely, the drive to quickly obtain money and power.
	static.highbeam.com /p/parameters/december222001/crimeandpoliticsincolombiaconsiderationsforusinvol/index.html (238 words)

	Colombia: The Politics of Escalation
		The aggressive land takeovers in Colombia by transnational oil and mining corporations and their use of paramilitary death squads to expel the peasants has inevitably contributed to the rapid growth of the insurgency.
		Colombia was "decertified" for its failure to collaborate with Washington in the "drug war," and cut off from a wide range of aid and trade deals.
		As Colombia's insurgent groups have pointed out, if the U.S. Empire wants to end the cultivation of coca leaves, the only way is to provide these marginalized peasants with a crop and a market which will enable them to feed their families.
	emperors-clothes.com /analysis/colombia.htm (3960 words)

	Colombia Trade News
		Welcome to Colombia Trade News, the official Web site of the Trade Bureau of the Embassy of Colombia and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism.
		Find the latest information about the U.S-Andean Free Trade Agreement, learn more about Colombia's economy, discover the mutual benefits of free trade between the U.S. and Colombia, access the latest trade statistics, and find important resources and information on doing business in Colombia.
		Colombia Trade News is published by the Colombian Government Trade Bureau.
	www.coltrade.org (165 words)

	Parameters: Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations ... @ HighBeam Research
		Colombia is a feast for Hobbesians (1) in the rawness of its connections between crime and politics, a rawness that long antedates Colombia's massive drug industry and the way it feeds the massive US drug appetite.
		A mere seven percent of Colombia's murders lead to convictions, and the average time served is four and a half years.
		Dr. Michael G. Roskin is a professor of political science at Lycoming College (Pa.) and was a visiting professor of foreign policy in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College from 1991 to 1994.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:82064211&... (3964 words)

	Crime and Politics in Colombia: Considerations for US Involvement
		Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money (e.g., Japanese Liberal Democratic politicians and yakuza gangsters).
		Slightly more than half of Colombia is lowland to the east of the Andes--the llanos, tropical, sparsely inhabited, and hard to reach.
		Banditry, also rooted in La Violencia, continued.[4] Bandit chiefs, many of whom started as Liberal opponents of the Conservative government, formed county-sized redoubts that defied the Colombian army for years.[5] During the 1960s, some 120 such guerrilla-bandit groups were active.[6] Crime stalked the countryside, and planters carried automatic weapons to oversee their farms.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/597863/posts (3479 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Murder and Politics in Colombia
		Betancurâs peace process sought to open up Colombiaâs traditionally stymied political system to the UP both to provide a mechanism for the democratic expression of left-wing politics but also as a way of politically incorporating the FARC within the Colombian democratic process.
		For example, he seems to lay the failure of the UPâs political project largely at the feet of the FARC leadership.
		The UP were destroyed because they represented a credible and potentially viable threat to the interests of Colombian and US capital, with the FARC military build up merely one of many factors that the led to the demise of the UP and the tragic slaughter of its activists.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=5137&sectionID=9 (1016 words)

	Politics Of Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The activities of the Bush White House, their politics as normal, involves trashing...
		The Keeningâ is a document of modern life in Colombia, but not...
		that âfor many years...(the paramilitaries) have intervened in politics, intimately and...
	politics-of-colombia.wikiverse.org (788 words)

	Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It feels as if it was supposed to be (and to some extent is) a story of the authors experiences in Colombia and what he was able to reveal about the Colombian political culture.
		By his own admission, Colombia has engaged in political violence against dissidents for decades, and its 1980s death squads were willing to kill virtually anyone they disliked.
		The paramilitaries were out to destroy the left, and the center; the guerrilla politics upon which Dudley lavishes so much scrutiny were a secondary factor at best, and in no way confirm the Colombian military's "analysis" or strategy.
	www.textkit.com /0_041593303X.html (710 words)

	The Politics of Colombia (Politics in Latin America)
		As the relationship between the United States and Latin America becomes an important focus of world attention, The Politics of Colombia is a welcome study of this South American country.
		A comprehensive analysis of the international influences on Colombian politics, as well as of the country's policymaking processes, this book will introduce the reader to one of the more important, yet least known, countries of the hemisphere.
		To this end, Professor Dix (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1951, 1953, and 1962, respectively) is highly regarded by students of Colombian politics in Europe, Canada, Asia and the United States.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0275923150.html (196 words)

	Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dudley, a journalist on Colombia for 5 years, chronicles the complex and often violent conflict between warring political parties, guerrilla groups, militaries, paramilitaries, and drug kingpins in Colombia.
		He discusses the rise of the leftist Colombian political party called the Patriotic Union (UP), and the dirty war waged by the government, military, and paramilitaries against alleged communists and guerrillas who made up the party’s base, leading to its brutal demise.
		Dudley’s patient and thorough journalism result in a clear window into the conflict, its actors, its causes, and its implications in Colombia, with lessons for the world.
	www.americas.org /bookstore/category_2023_product_9098 (124 words)

	Colombia Human Rights Network Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colombia's Uribe should be allowed to run in 2006
		Colombia govt delays decision on telecom privatisation until 2006
		Colombia grants political asylum to ousted Ecuadorian president
	www.igc.org /colhrnet (636 words)

	Omniseek: /Open Directory /Regional /South America /Colombia /Politics
		Colombia A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture One in ten of the world's murders takes place in Colombia.
		Colombia is divided administratively into 23 departments, four intendancies, and five commissariats.
		Political Science 221, Latin American Politics Fall Term 1998 Session 6: Colombia and The Central Andean Countries (Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador) What are the threats to sovereignty in Colombia and the Central Andean states?
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{44037} (313 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dudley painstakingly interviews the key political actors in the Colombian Communist Party and senior members of the FARC guerrilla organization who were responsible for the establishment of the UP.
		If life is as expendable in Colombia as it appears to be, the author must have had more than a few frightening experiences.
		The UP was unfortunately caught in the maw of Colombia's ongoing 'violencia' as the cocaine trade expanded and forced its dynamic on Colombian politics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/041593303X?v=glance (2155 words)

	Crisis States Research Centre: Workshop - Politics of Colombia Conflict
		The British ambassador to Colombia Thomas Duggin addressed the packed public forum, held at Bogotá's National Museum, and expressed his hope for an eventual negotiated settlement.
		Professor Francisco Gutíerrez and his team at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations at the National University in Bogotá, spoke in detail about their work on the micro-foundations of war.
		Research in Colombia shows that, despite the horrors of guerrilla action and the criminal behaviour of the combatants, people engage in violence as a reaction to hardship and social exclusion.'
	www.crisisstates.com /News/bogota.htm (361 words)

	Colombia - Bibliography
		Bergquist, Charles W. Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910.
		Kline, Harvey F. "Colombia: Modified Two-Party and Elitist Politics." Pages 249-69 in Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline (eds.), Latin American Politics and Development.
		Peeler, John A. "Colombian Parties and Political Development: A Reassessment," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 18, No. 2, May 1976, 203-24.
	www.countrystudies.us /colombia/104.htm (439 words)

	Governments on the WWW: Colombia
		Embajada de Colombia en Viena, Austria [Embassy of Colombia in Vienna, Austria]
		Embajada de Colombia en Bruselas, Bélgica [Embassy of Colombia in Brussels, Belgium]
		Embajada de Colombia en Copenhague, Dinamarca [Embassy of Colombia in Copenhagen, Denmark]
	www.gksoft.com /govt/en/co.html (702 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| October 18, 2004: Headlines: COS - Colombia: Politics: Congress: Election2004 - Farr: Voting: UC ...
		Farr spent about 45 minutes with students in Politics 120A, Congress, the Presidency, and the Court, an upper-division class taught by politics professor Daniel Wirls.
		As the Nov. 2 election nears, Wirls and fellow campus experts in U.S. politics agreed that the presidential debates had resuscitated Kerry’s candidacy.
		The greatest irony of the debates is how important they were despite rampant early skepticism about the highly structured format, observed Michael Brown, professor of politics and chair of the Politics Department.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2024212.html (1242 words)

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