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  Timeline of liberal parties around the world - TheBestLinks.com - Liberalism, Liberal International, List of liberal ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Timeline of liberal and centrist parties in Finland
Timeline of liberal and centrist parties in Iceland
Timeline of liberal and centrist parties in Sweden
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 Liberal parties
A liberal party is defined here as a political party, that adheres to the basic principles of (political) liberalism.
At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century liberals started to organise themselves in loose organisations and/or political parties in opposition to conservative, clerical and absolutist forces, striving after the emancipation of citizens and the middle class.
The mainstream of liberalism continues on the path of gradual reforms, embraces electoral democracy as a basic liberal position and organizes itself in the form of the traditional liberal parties.
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 Liberalism in Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament.
Liberalism in Colombia is organized as the opposition to conservatism.
Several current leaders of the party in the late 20th and early 21st centuries claim to be seeking to move the party closer to the social democratic left.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Liberalism-in-Colombia.htm   (394 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Liberal parties
Timeline of liberal parties in Belgium: In Flanders the liberal Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, member LI, ELDR), comprising both market and left of center liberals, is one of the dominant parties.
Colombia: The liberal current developed into the Colombian Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Colombiano, member SI), which is a left of center, somewhat populist party, somewhere between liberalism and social democracy.
Mozambique: The Liberal Democratic Party of Mozambique (Partido Liberal e Democrático de Moçambique) and the Social Liberal and Democratic Party (Partido Social-Liberal e Democrático) claim to be liberal parties.
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 Colombian Liberal Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Colombian Liberal Party (Spanish: Partido Liberal Colombiano; PLC) is a social democratic and liberal party in Colombia.
The current President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, is a former member of the party, having crafted all of his political career prior to his election (where he ran as an independent Liberal) inside it.
The Liberal Party is a member of Socialist International.
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 An Overview of Recent Colombian History
The liberal party rules and survives an attempted coup d'etat in 1944.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a populist leader of the liberal party, is assassinated in Bogotá during the meeting of the Pan-American Conference (precursor to the Organization of the American States) by agents of the conservative government of Mariano Ospina Pérez.
La Violencia, a partisan civil war between the Conservative and Liberal parties, erupts as a consequence of the assassination of Gaitán.
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 Colombia: History
Strong parties developed along conservative and liberal lines; the conservatives favored centralism and participation by the church in government and education, and the liberals supported federalism, anticlericalism, and some measure of social legislation and fiscal reforms.
Colombia settled (1917) its boundary disputes with Ecuador, and in 1934 a border clash with Peru over the town of Leticia was settled by the League of Nations in Colombia's favor.
Colombia's economy began to recover from the setbacks of the early 1970s as economic diversification and incentives to lure foreign capital into the country were initiated.
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 American Hegemony - A Timeline
Similar actions were taken against anti-nazi resistance groups in other liberated territories, for example in Germany, where an average of $6 million was spent supporting the Nazi intelligence network of General Reinhard Gehlen until he was replaced by the CIA in 1954.
With varying degress of success liberalization programs are undertaken in Soviet Russia and its satellites to undo the worst of the persisting crimes of Stalin's regime.
The 2002 election of the liberal canidate Luiz Lula to the presidency demonstrates how foreign economic pressures are put to bear in the form of self-fulfilling prophecies: "For months international investment banks have been downgrading Brazil's government bonds, saying that a Lula presidency would likely lead to a default.
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The peasant class and the elite, both liberal and conservative, have been pitted against each other in Colombia as they are in many poorer countries, where the wealth gap is obvious.
Ernesto Samper, the president of Colombia berfore the present Andres Pastrana, was elected in 1994, defeating Pastrana in the election.
In early July, officials from the FARC and the government exchange sealed envelopes with their ideas on how to end the war, the first time in 15 years the two sides have broached the issue of a formal truce.
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 DPOR - Colombia Timeline
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a populist leader of the Liberal Party, is assassinated in Bogotá.
the partisan civil war between the Conservatives and the Liberals intensifies as a consequence of the assassination of Gaitán.
Liberal guerrillas, known as “common liberals” (as opposed to party-led liberals) ally with Communist guerrillas who had emerged in the 1920s as self-defense groups.
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 Peace Timeline: 1999
The rampage is apparently revenge for a FARC attack on the AUC headquarters and a nearby town on December 28, while the paramilitary group was observing its cease-fire.
The FARC launches a five-day offensive throughout Colombia which one army official calls "the largest and most demented guerilla offensive in the past forty years." The campaign encompasses 15 towns, one of which is just 35 miles south of Bogotá.
The AP calls a FARC attack on the town of Nariño, Antioquia "one of the most deadly guerrilla assaults on civilians in memory." The attack is conducted by 300 guerrillas against a police station guarded by 35 police officers.
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 Timeline Colombia
The Ika and Kogi are tribes in the Amazon rain forest of Colombia.
Colombia had been plunged into bankruptcy and subsequent civil war in 1899 after three years of steep declines in world coffee prices.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the largest and oldest rebel group (12,000 men) having fought for 34 years, were believed to be responsible.
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 Index of /wiki/en/ti/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks in New York
Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle
Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
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 U.S. Interventions in Latin America
Liberal President José Santos Zelaya of Nicaragua proposes that American mining and banana companies pay taxes; he has also appropriated church lands and legalized divorce, done business with European firms, and executed two Americans for participating in a rebellion.
The U.S.'s hand-picked dictator, Carlos Castillo Armas, outlaws political parties, reduces the franchise, and establishes the death penalty for strikers, as well as undoing Arbenz's land reform.
U.S. spends $10 million to orchestrate elections in El Salvador-- something of a farce, since left-wing parties are under heavy repression, and the military has already declared that it will not answer to the elected president.
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 1000Countries.com: Colombia II: colombia, COLOMBIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Colombia is a fascinating country where adoptive families come and go without difficulty.
COLOMBIA The Republic of Colombia is a country in South America with a total area of 1,138,910 km2.
Colombia is a constitutional, multiparty democracy in which the Liberal and Conservative parties...
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 Belmont Club: February 2004
This is a serious diplomatic effort, requiring the approval of 93 countries (of the 185 signatories); a major expenditure of international and domestic capital in an election year with no assurance of success and indeed every prospect of rebuff.
In the popular liberal mind, no less than the extremist Islamic one, the pre-Columbian peoples of the world, Islam, China and India included, lived in harmony with both plant and animal under a regime of universal brotherhood until the cursed day when the white man touched their shores, shattering Paradise forever.
It is the requirement not to act until we have achieved it which actually guarantees its reverse: no knowledge, a steady dribble of casualties and the quiet acceptance of genocide; when business as usual with monsters masquerades as peace.
www.belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_belmontclub_archive.html   (15861 words)

  
 Narco News Reports the Facts on Narco-Candidate Uribe
As Colombia's current president, Andrés Pastrana, noted in a press release on October 25, 1999: "Without the coca plant, there is no cocaine, but without acetone, ether and permanganate, it is impossible to have drugs.
The Liberal Party, through which Uribe and Escobar rose in the same electoral wave to mayoral and legislative power, is to Antioquia what the Democratic Party is to Boston: the entire political show.
The New Colombia News Agency reported on Uribe's record "as mayor of Medellin in the early 1980s when the city was known as 'The Sanctuary' due to the complete protection that the traffickers enjoyed from the city administration."
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 List of liberal leaders Article, Listliberalleaders Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is a list of self or otherwise proclaimed liberal leaders.
There are many different views of whatconstitute liberalism, and some liberals would feel that some of the people on this list were not true liberals.
Liberal Party of Canada: Alexander Mackenzie - Wilfrid Laurier - William Lyon Mackenzie King - LouisSt.
www.anoca.org /liberalism/party/list_of_liberal_leaders.html   (589 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Country profiles | Timeline: Colombia
Republic of Gran Colombia formed with Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
1861-85 - Liberal Party rule sees country divided into nine largely autonomous entities and the church separated from the state.
An estimated 23,000 people are killed in four Andean towns.
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 Timeline of liberal parties around the world - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Timeline of liberal parties around the world - free-definition
Timeline of liberal parties in Serbia and Montenegro
Timeline of liberal, liberal-conservative and centrist parties in Sweden
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 NarcoCandidate In Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Colombia produces between 70-80% of the world's cocaine hydrochloride.
Democratic Party is to Boston: the entire political show.
in Cali, Colombia, of Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino.
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 ABColombia Colombia this week
The government has accused Sierra of being a cocaine trafficker masquerading as a leader of the far-right group.
The trade conference, titled Proexport Colombia, brought together more than 600 Colombian business ventures and 250 potential American investors at the Hotel Inter Continental, AP reports.
Colombia This Week is a news summary produced and distributed by ABColombia Group.
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 United Fruit Company - Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is born in Aracataca, a town in the banana zone of Magdalena, Colombia.
During a demonstration in the main plaza of the city of Cienaga the Army, commanded by Carlos Cortes Vargas fires on the strikers and leaves an undetermined (and disputed) number of strikers dead.
One Liberal politician, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan denounces the government's action at the National Congress, on the radio, and public speeches.
www.unitedfruit.org /chronology.html   (7934 words)

  
 Liberal Street Fighter
Throughout the course of the War in Iraq, the liberal left made accusations littered with the words oil and Israel, while the conservative right preached words like imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, and September 11th.
In the two articles which follow this introduction, you’ll find a timeline and the story of Rafik Hariri with public reaction to his assassination.
It resulted in what looked like a democracy (parties, elections, opposition), but it was basically dominated by cronies: a cronycracy.
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 CIA Timeline : Italy imc
During the next six years, the "reign of the colonels" — backed by the CIA — will usher in the widespread use of torture and murder against political opponents.
This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.
Aristide is returned to power only after being forced to accept an agenda favorable to the country's ruling class.
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 Timeline 1984
A group calling itself the Kashmir Liberation Army claimed responsibility and demanded a ransom of 1 million pounds ($1.84 million) and the release of political prisoners in India.
Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
The Sudanese People’s Liberation Army was led by a former Sudanese army colonel and Ph.D. in economics from Iowa St. Univ.
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 Timeline of Cumberland Presbyterian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A majority of presbyteries and a minority of individuals voted in favor of union.
A protest was made and action was taken to civil court when the vote came back to GA 1906 Merger ratified by both the CPC and the PCUSA but was only partially accomplished.
The 90,000 Cumberlands who entered the PCUSA influenced the church for more liberal views in doctrine.
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 Colombian Liberal Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This text is part of the Liberalism series (III)
Politics of Colombia, List of political parties in Colombia
Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers
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