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Topic: Risaralda department

	Risaralda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located in the western central region of the country.
		In 1966 it separated politically from the department of Caldas.
		Risaralda is very well known for the high quality of its coffee, and a booming industry: clothes, food, trading of goods and services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Risaralda (114 words)

	Pereira - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city of Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda.
		It stands in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain.
		In 1966 Pereira became the capital city of the department of Risaralda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pereira,Colombia (682 words)

	Risaralda Department (Colombia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The flag of Risaralda was adopted 3 December 1969.
		Previous Flag was of thirteen stars for the municipalities of the department changed later on to fourteen stars.
		The only flag I have actually seen for Risaralda was just a green (darkish) fabric with a Coat of Arms in it.
	flagspot.net /flags/co-ris.html (202 words)

	Colombia 1993 Chapter VIII
		In the municipality of Apartado, Department of Antioquia, DIONISIO BOLIVAR, a banana worker on the El Congo plantation and a member of SINTRAINAGRO, was assaulted by gunmen on Tuesday, March 13, and died on Wednesday, March 14.
		JAIME GOMEZ LONDOÑO, a teacher, was killed on January 28, 1989, in the municipality of Quinchia in the department of Risaralda.
		ILDUARA SANCHEZ PALACIOS, a teacher from the village of Barcinales, municipality of Santuario, department of Risaralda, was killed on December 9 in Pereira in that same department.
	www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/Colombia93eng/chap.8.htm (6261 words)

	Weekly News Update on Colombia #583, 4/1/01
		The blockade effectively cut off the important department of Valle del Cauca (of which Cali, Colombia's third largest city, is the capital) from the rest of the country.
		On Mar. 24, some 200-300 paramilitaries from the AUC stormed the town of Llorente in the southwestern Colombian department of Narino, forcing the residents to gather in the town square, then selecting about 30 people accused of collaborating with leftist rebels.
		US State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher indicated on Mar. 30 that the US may retaliate against Colombia for its sponsorship of the vote.
	www.mail-archive.com /kominform@lists.eunet.fi/msg06560.html (1139 words)

	Report On The Activities
		The Department of Risaralda is considering banning the planting of pine and eucalyptus in the Department until it can be shown without doubt that they do not adversely affect the environment.
		It is one of the smallest departments in Colombia.
		To give advice to the departments, districts and municipalities found within their territory in the drawing up of environmental development plans and environmental protection programmes and projects in such a manner that assures the harmony and coherence of the policies and actions adopted by the distinct territorial entities.
	latinamericasolidarity.freeservers.com /smurfit2.htm (18162 words)

	Colombia
		For example, the CCJ alleged that on May 11 troops of the 6th Brigade surrounded the towns of Montoso and Aco, Tolima department, accused various members of the population of being guerrilla collaborators, and causing the disappearance of Jose Maximiliano Gomez.
		For example, on May 30, paramilitaries in the department of Cesar released a senior departmental government employee they had held captive for over 9 months; paramilitaries justified their actions by claiming they had held him while they investigated allegations of corruption.
		On July 21, police in Atlantico department captured Leonidas Ricardo Reyes, the AUC Southern Bloc's third-in-command, who was suspected of murdering several teachers and a student in Magdalena department.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27891.htm (17017 words)

	Santa Rosa -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		department, southern Guatemala, bounded on the south by the Pacific Ocean.
		In the highlands of the department, which has an area of 1,141 sq mi (2,955 sq km), farmers raise corn (maize) and beans, and there are coffee plantations.
		It is a commercial and manufacturing centre for the fertile agricultural and pastoral hinterland.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9065606 (882 words)

	Colombia: Earthquake - OCHA-03: 28-Jan-99
		The earthquake of 25 January hit a zone that spans 20 towns and villages and encompasses five Departments: Quindio, Risaralda, Valle, Tolima and Caldas.
		The hardest hit areas include the cities of Armenia and Calarca in the Department of Quindio, and the city of Pereira in the Department of Risaralda.
		UNICEF is also evaluating the effect of the damage caused by the earthquake on health, nutrition and education projects in the region.
	www.cidi.org /disaster/99a/0009.html (1020 words)

	City Council welcomes Governor of Risaralda
		The Cerritos City Council recently presented a proclamation to Dr. Carlos Alberto Botero, Governor of the Department of Risaralda, welcoming him to the United States and the City of Cerritos.
		Botero was invited by the United States Department of State to visit the country as a guest of the government through the International Visitor Leadership Program.
		The objective of Botero’s visit was to expose him to governmental organization models in the United States to assist him in his efforts to restructure the public sector in Risaralda.
	www.ci.cerritos.ca.us /comnews/proclamations/2005/risaralda.html (126 words)

	Inside Costa Rica - National News
		In Maripi District, in the northern Boyaca department, three adults and three children of the same family were killed when the car they were aboard was swept away by floods.
		In a similar accident in the northwestern Antioquia department, three soldiers drowned and three others disappeared while trying to cross a river during a routine patrol.
		Heavy rains also caused a landslide which buried a house in a rural area of Belen de Umbria, in Risaralda department, killing two children.
	insidecostarica.com /dailynews/2005/april/13/reg03.htm (190 words)

	Recent Combat Reports from the Colombia War : LA IMC
		May 12th FARC and army in heavy combat outside the town of Sucre in Santander department resulting in three guerrillas and one soldier being killed.
		May 12th ELN and army in heavy combat outside the town of Falan in Tolima department resulting in four guerrillas and one soldier being killed.
		May 9th ELN and army in heavy combat in Arauca department resulting in the death of a soldier.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2001/05/6923.php (659 words)

	Inter-American Human Rights Database
		The murder of farmers and destruction of those in the Department of Bo1ivia, by police agents;
		The death of peasant leader, Rubén Darío Grajalos Ruiz, in the Department of Risaralda
		The arbitrary arrest of the deputies of a Legislative Assembly in one of the departments of the country
	www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1975/comm1780.cfm (562 words)

	Colombia Departments
		The first and most notorious was the loss of its department of Panama, in a revolution encouraged by the United States to ease the way for the leasing of the Panama Canal Zone.
		Colombia is divided into 32 departamentos (departments) and one distrito capital (capital district).
		Bogotá, capital of the Republic and of the Department of Cundinamarca, is organized as the Capital District....
	www.statoids.com /uco.html (771 words)

	Consolidated Amended Complaint (5NTD01!.DOC;1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Beginning in the late 1970s and continuing through the present day, the PHILIP MORRIS DEFENDANTS and BAT DEFENDANTS, in conducting one of their primary businesses of selling tobacco products worldwide, have launched and conducted a consistent and concerted campaign to increase their respective market shares in the countries in which their products are sold.
		The Defendants have increased their market share by making their cigarettes available to the general public within THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA at prices below those which could be charged by their competitors whose products are sold lawfully and which, therefore, are more expensive.
		The mails and wires were used, or were caused to be used, in the furtherance of the above actions and the unlawful scheme to defraud Plaintiffs.
	www.ash.org.uk /html/smuggling/rico/colombiarico.html (1449 words)

	OPEN / NEWS
		BOSS solution at the Gases del Risaralda company, which is part of their investment portfolio in the Colombian coffee growing region.
		Gases del Risaralda S.A. E.S.P., is a public service provider for the netowork distribution of natural gas, on an exclusive basis for the Balboa, Dosquebradas, La Celia, La Virginia, Santa Rosa, and Pereira municipalities of the Risaralda department, located in the central region of Colombia, with approximately 52,000 subscriptors and a major industrial sector growth.
		The objective of Gases de Risaralda, as Gases del Caribe, is to improve quality, efficiency, and user service.
	www.openinternational.com /english/news/news_39.htm (420 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		August 2000 — June 2001 Description and identification of groups of giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) present in the municipality of Paz de Ariporo in the north-west of the Casanare department, Colombia, as a member of the Biotropos Foundation.
		Department of biology, National University of Colombia, Bogota — Colombia.
		July 1996 Evaluation of the abundance of the dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis through the use of line transects in the northern sector of the Morrosquillo Gulf, Colombian Caribbean.
	www.pjc.cc.fl.us /sctag/proposals/Giant/Javier_Diaz/cv.doc (915 words)

	Environment and Natural Resources/Environmental Management
		CARDER - Autonomous Regional Corporation of Risaralda - as a response to the policy established by Law 99 of 1993 determining the beginning of a new environmental way.
		With this aim and taking advantage of the occasion of having signed an agreement of technological interchange with the Government of Canada, it was decided to choose the river basin of the Risaralda River which occupies a 40% of the area of the department (1278 Km2).
		The objective of this agreement is to execute the territorial planning of the Risaralda River and to develop an environmental zonification using the Geographic Information system ArcInfo.
	gis.esri.com /library/userconf/proc96/ABSTRACT/A2_830Wed.htm (812 words)

	Violence against Colombian trade unionists
		This climate of violence would appear to be related to the political context, which last week saw the failure of the referendum called by the head of state, as well as the rise of a new opposition force with the election of former trade unionist Luis Eduardo Garzon as mayor of Bogotá.
		On 22 October, the CUT office in the Department of Risaralda received death threats against 10 union leaders, defenders of human rights and members of political organisations.
		Accompanied by a hymn to the 'Bloque Cacique Calarca' paramilitary units, these death threats are linked directly to those sent 12 days earlier to union leaders in northern Valle who were exhorted to leave the area and give up their union activities or face death.
	www.laborrights.org /press/ICFTU_colombia_1103.htm (408 words)

	UNI : Extermination of Union Activists Continues in Colombia
		This sad event was committed as Sister ZULY was leaving her home at 7:30 in the morning on her way to the Hospital Central where she worked.
		A vile attack on Sister BERTA LUCY DAVILA, an educator and Coordinator of the morning session of the Alfredo Garcia School, on November 13th in the city of Pereira, capital of the Department of Risaralda.
		Sister Berta, an affiliate of the Union of Educators of Risaralda (SER-FECODE), was shot within the institution and is in serious condition in the hospital of the city of Pereira.
	www.union-network.org /uniamericas.nsf/f9a50f25095bc4cec125690d0042b164/73fc2b10dd5ade98c1256dea0073e48e?OpenDocument (359 words)

	MSF-USA: Press Release 07/28/2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The volunteer, a French citizen, was working as a laboratory assistant for a humanitarian aid project operated by MSF in the municipality of Tado (Department of Choco).
		The abduction occurred while the MSF volunteer was driving from Tado to Bogota in a car which was clearly identifiable as an MSF vehicle.
		He was stopped between Guarato Department of Choco, and Santa Cecilia, Department of Risaralda.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /pr/2000/07-28-2000.htm (332 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The three men had traveled to the town from their office in nearby Pereira, capital of Risaralda Department, to report on local indigenous groups that have been caught in the middle of fighting between leftist rebels and rival paramilitary fighters in the region, Noguera told CPJ.
		For the last 38 years, the FARC and a smaller rebel army have been fighting against paramilitaries and the government in a civil conflict.
		Tensions in Risaralda have been rising for two months following the arrival of dozens of paramilitary fighters, said Noguera.
	www.cpj.org /news/2002/Colombia09aug02na.html (243 words)

	Untitled Document
		DOMINGO TABORDA, Vice-president of the Risaralda branch of the CPDH
		MARIA TERESA HENAO, from the Risaralda branch of the CPDH
		In the case of the members of the Risaralda branch of the CPDH, the threats
	cpdh.free.fr /ingles/denunciatios/ing_urgent_action_risaralda.htm (455 words)

	Colombia: Earthquake - OCHA-07: 12-Feb-99
		As of 10 February 1998, consolidated figures indicate that 1,052 persons lost their lives and 4,500 were injured.
		The municipalities of Armenia and Calarca, in the Department of Quindio (total population of approximately 435,000), and the city of Pereira, in the Department of Risaralda (total population of approximately 745,000), bore the heaviest toll with some 960 people dead and 3,200 injured.
		Of 15 hospitals surveyed in the Department of Quindio and Risaralda, seven are not operational.
	www.cidi.org /disaster/99a/0023.html (838 words)

	Armenia, Colombia - Hydroponic Gardens for Earthquake Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The earthquake had the most severe impact in the cities of Armenia and Pereira and the surrounding villages.
		Armenia, capital city of the Quindio Department, has a population of approximately 270,000.
		Pereira, capital city of the Risaralda Department, has a population of approximately 380,000.
	www.carbon.org /Armenia1/Present2.htm (76 words)

	OCHA Reports
		The disaster zone spans 20 towns and villages and encompasses five departments: Quindio, Risaralda, Valle, Tolima, and Caldas.
		All are located in the departments of Quindio, Risaralda, Valle, Tolima, and Caldas.
		The cost of the HDRs is being met by the U.S. Department of Defense and the transport is being met by USAID/OFDA at $34,128 and $121,000, respectively.
	www.qso.com /satern411/ceusaid.htm (2445 words)

	Human rights abuses against Colombian trade unionists
		On January 17th 2001 CUT activist and vice-president of the Magdalena lottery workers union (Sindicato de Loteros del Magdalena), Tello Barragan Aldona, was assassinated in the city of Santa Marta, Magdalena department.
		On January 17th 2001 trade unionist Miguel Antonio Medina Bohorquez was assassinated in the Altagracia area near the city of Pereira, Risaralda department.
		On January 11th 2001 a bomb exploded in the town of Yumbo, Valle de Cauca department, in front of the house of Ezequiel Antonio Palma Jimenez seriously damaging his house and destroying his brothers car.
	www.mail-archive.com /kominform@lists.eunet.fi/msg05580.html (559 words)

	COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACRED \| World War 4 Report
		In the northern department of Antioquia, meanwhile, campesino Luis Sigifredo Castano was found murdered by the Colombian army on Aug. 7 in the village of Campo Bijao, Remedios municipality.
		Castano had been dressed in a camouflage guerrilla uniform, "even though everyone in the Northeast [of Antioquia] knew he was a rural worker and that he was disabled in one of his arms," the Campesino Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC) reports.
		On July 29, in the village of Carmen, in the northern Colombian department of Bolivar, armed men in military uniforms abducted agrarian leader Jairo Gonzalez from the vehicle he was traveling in.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1032 (1381 words)

	CASE NO. 1787/COLOMBIA(2002): Complaint against the Government of Colombia presented by the ICFTU, CLAT, WFTU, CUT, ...
		Francy Uran Molina, murdered in the municipality of Caicedo, Department of Antioquía.
		Jairo Herrero, murdered in the municipality of Puerto Wilches, Department of Santander, on 15 September 2000.
		Manuel Enrique Charris Ariza, murdered in the municipality of Soledad, Department of Atlántico, on 11 June 2001.
	www.oit.org.pe /sindi/english/casos/col/col200206.html (17844 words)

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