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	Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The territory's main population was made up of hundreds of tribes of the Chibchan and "Karib", currently known as the Caribbean people, whom the Spaniards conquered through warfare, while resulting disease, exploitation, and the conquest itself caused a tremendous demographic reduction among the indigenous.
		However department governors, mayors of cities and towns and other executive branch officials are only elected for a three year term, and cannot be inmediatelly reelected.
		On May 28, 2006, president Álvaro Uribe Vélez was reelected by a vote of 62%, against 22% for Carlos Gaviria Díaz of the Democratic Pole, and 12% for Horacio Serpa Uribe of the Liberal Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia (2913 words)

	COLOMBIA, Landmine Monitor Report 2002
		A US Department of State report, released on 4 March 2002, states that of the 130,000 antipersonnel mines estimated to be planted in Colombia at the end of 2001, the Colombian military maintained approximately 18,000 mines to defend static positions, while the remaining mines were emplaced by non-state actors.
		Boyacá department (10): Chiscas, Pajarito, Pauna, and Pisba municipalities.
		Huila department (7): Acevedo, Algeciras, Anzoátegui, and Suaza municipalities.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2002/colombia.html (9267 words)

	Colombia - free download text. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This republic collapsed in 1830 when Venezuela and Ecuador separated, the Department of Cundinamarca became a new country, the Republic of New Granada.
		Modern day Panama, which subsequently remained a Colombian department until 1903, when it became independent, was also included in this union Internal political and territorial divisions led to the secession of Venezuela and Quito (today's Ecuador) in 1830.
		Department governors, mayors of cities and towns and other executive branch officials are elected for a three year term.
	colombia.en.clops.org (2232 words)

	Vichada Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		River basin in Vichada, the sparsely populated department near the Venezuelan border.
		Puerto Carreño is the capital city of the department of Vichada in Colombia.
		Additionally, he is accused of coordinating drug trafficking in a the Colombian department Vichada, in the frontier with Venezeula.
	insurance.rightlikeextra.info /Vichada_Department (395 words)

	Colombia - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean that he called "The Sea of the South" and which fact would bring the Spaniards to Peru and Chile.
		The main people in the Colombian territory were hundreds of tribes of the Chibchan and "Karib" or Caribbean peoples whom they assimilated or killed through warfare, disease, exploitation, or conquest.
		The so-called "Department of Cundinamarca" received then the name "Nueva Granada" until 1856 when it became the "Confederación Granadina" (Granadine Confederation).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/o/l/Colombia.html (1832 words)

	Situation Reports: Bolivia: Floods - Jan 2004, ODPC-WFP Emergency Situation Report on Latin America and the Caribbean ...
		New displacements have been reported in the department of Antioquia, where at least 15 families were displaced to the urban areas of San Carlos municipality, due to clashes between Colombian army and illegal armed groups.
		Displacements have been reported in the department of Bolivar, where approximately 240 people were forced to move out of rural areas near the municipality of Arenal, due to rebel groups' threats.
		About 1,115 families of the Department of Puno (provinces of Puno, Azanagaro, Carabaya, Chuquito, Huancane) in the southern part of the country are being affected by the overflowing of rivers and landslides as a consequence of heavy rains which are blocking access, destroying crops and killing husbandry.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64C4ZW?OpenDocument (2683 words)

	Just the Facts
		According to the conference committee report accompanying the 2000 Defense Department Appropriations bill, the chief counternarcotics officials at the Departments of State and Defense are to submit a report to Congress on the cost-effectiveness of transferring refurbished A-10s "for the Department of State's coca eradication mission in Colombia."
		Charles Wilhelm, the head of the U.S. Southern Command and a vocal proponent of increased military aid to Colombia, argued before a Senate caucus that police assistance alone is insufficient, given the likelihood of confrontation with guerrillas during counter-narcotics efforts.
		The State Department's INC program is also funding improvements, such as a runway extension, to the Colombian air base at Tres Esquinas, Putumayo, the headquarters of the Colombian Army’s First Counternarcotics Battalion.
	www.ciponline.org /facts/co99.htm (5380 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - 2002 HR Commissioner's Report on Colombia
		This is particularly the case in the department of Norte de Santander and on the Medellín-Bogotá highway.
		The departments of Huila, Guajira and Valle del Cauca are the worst affected, with the lowest rates of primary school enrolment.
		In the department of Guaviare, AUC groups consolidated their presence in the urban centre of the capital and in the rural area around San José del Guaviare.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/colombia/doc/robinreport02.html (18938 words)

	Plan Colombia and Beyond: The UN's coca data
		While the State Department showed Colombian coca holding steady at 114,000 hectares between 2003 and 2004, UN figures indicate a 7 percent drop, from 86,000 to 80,000 hectares.
		They entirely miss the department of Casanare, which borders several coca-producing departments and is overrun by paramilitaries and guerrillas.
		Coca cultivation grew by 46 percent in Meta department, 188 percent in Arauca, 21 percent in Antioquia and 23 percent in the far eastern Orinoco-basin department of Vichada.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/blog/archives/000112.htm (1542 words)

	Amnesty Urgent Action 199/98
		Fear for safety of the inhabitants of the municipalities of: Puerto Gaitan (department of Meta), Puerto Principe (department of Vichada).
		Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of the civilian population in the departments of Vichada and Meta after receiving reports of a paramilitary attack on several communities between 2 and 5 July 1998, in which upwards of 11 civilians were killed.
		Approximately 200 heavily armed men reportedly entered the Piapocos Indian community of Tiyaba, situated between the departments of Meta and Vichada in the municipality of Puerto Gaitan (Meta Department).
	www.colombiasupport.net /amnestyua/ua19998.html (542 words)

	ABColombia Colombia this week
		El Placer settlement denounced the presence of paramilitaries from the Vichada front of the Central Bolivar Bloc (BCB), a demobilised group that came back to the region weeks after they were reportedly demobilised.
		Colombian National Police chief Gen. Jorge Daniel Castro called the attack "detestable," and urged the international community to denounce the killing of the civilians and the FARC's use of non-conventional weapons, AP reports.
		He was a committed defender of the biodiversity of the region and of the rights of Afro-descendents, and was covered by provisional protection measures granted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
	www.abcolombia.org.uk /previews_weeks.asp?id=147 (1883 words)

	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		The Colombian Navy seized a cargo of 70,000 fusil bullets in river Orinoco, on the Colombian-Venezuelan border on its way to Front 16 of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), authorities reported.
		The ammunition of different calibers and of Russian and Venezuelan origin was carried on a boat at the level of Puerto Ayacucho, the capital city of Venezuelan Amazonas state, but on waters under the jurisdiction of the Colombian department of Vichada, DPA reported.
		Recently the Colombian army found also 985 military camouflaged uniforms made in Venezuela in the Colombian department of Vichada.
	english.eluniversal.com /2005/07/04/en_pol_art_04A574707.shtml (173 words)

	The Harbinger. Notes from Colombia.
		On January 21st Jair Cubides, an activist with the Workers of the Department of Valle Trade Union (SINTRADEPARTAMENTO), was killed by paramilitaries in the southern city of Cali.
		Intense, and particularly well-documented, pressure from the U.S. State Department and the Embassy in Quito led to the appointment of a new puppet president, Gustavo Noboa.
		It is clear that the US wishes to draw neighboring countries into their fight against the Colombian rebels -- much as they did in their secret war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
	www.theharbinger.org /xix/010206/colombia.html (1492 words)

	FRD--THE SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF TERRORISM
		Background: Jorge Briceño Suárez was born in the Duda region of Colombia, in the jurisdiction of Uribe, Meta Department, in 1949.
		Background: Germán Briceño, younger brother of Jorge Briceño Suárez, was born in the Duda region of Colombia, in the jurisdiction of Uribe, Meta Department, in 1953.
		However, he was transferred to Vichada Department, where he engaged in weapons trafficking and extortion of taxes from coca growers and drug traffickers.
	www.neuromaster.com /LOCsocpsyterrorism/spt_09.htm (16848 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.
		Subdivisions of the departments are called municipios (municipalities).
		Bogotá, capital of the Republic and of the Department of Cundinamarca, is organized as the Capital District....
	www.statoids.com /uco.html (771 words)

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		The case of the state of Vichada is presented in this example.
		The first step is to calculate the expected number of deaths in Vichada by applying the standard rates to the population of the department (column (3) = (1) x (2)).
		The SMR of 53% indicates that in the population of Vichada the risk of dying is 47% less than expected according to the mortality standards of all of Colombia, controlling for the age variable
	www.paho.org /English/SHA/be_v23n3-standardization.htm (2252 words)

	HRW: “You’ll Learn Not To Cry”: Child Combatants in Colombia: 5. JOINING UP
		Jhony, the youngest of eight brothers from Casanare department, was hanging out in his old school (he finished studying in the fifth grade) when a group of UC-ELN members approached him and threatened to kill him if he did not go with them.
		Juan José is a Sicuani from Colombia's eastern department of Vichada, which borders with Venezuela and has a high number of indigenous communities.
		Some 15,000 Sicuanis and Guahibos live in the departments of Casanare, Meta, Vichada, and Guaviare, and are among Colombia's population of close to one million indigenous people, according to the latest census published by Colombia's National Planning Department.
	hrw.org /reports/2003/colombia0903/8.htm (4579 words)

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		The four Venezuelans-Carlos Pino, Pedro Guzman, Miguel Salazar and Carlos Zambrano-have said they are not guilty of the charges against them, and have requested Colombian officials to expedite their trials so they can go home.
		They were arrested May 26 in Vichada Department, near the border with Venezuela in southeastern Colombia, during an army operation against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest guerrilla group in the country, which is currently engaged in peace talks with the Colombian government.
		The Venezuelans told investigators they were in Vichada to learn about the Colombian peace process, but were not involved in any crimes attributed to FARC rebels.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2000cov/Hooded_men_attempt_break_in_at_Venezuelan_consulate_in_Colombia (309 words)

	DEA - Publications - The Supply of Illicit Drugs to the United States - 96
		Seaborne smuggling operations consisted primarily of go-fast boats that departed from Colombias North Coast and Venezuela, typically carrying between 800- and 1,200-kilogram shipments of cocaine.
		These vessels departed the North Coast of Colombia, hugged the Venezuelan coast, and either proceeded directly to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, or Haiti, or kept close to the coasts of the eastern Caribbean islands until they reached their final destinations.
		This was illustrated in 1996 with the seizure of three cocaine shipments from tractor-trailers at the El Guasaule, Choluteca Department, a port of entry on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border.
	fas.org /irp/agency/doj/dea/product/nnicc97.htm (21334 words)

	HRW: “You’ll Learn Not To Cry”: Child Combatants in Colombia: 10. COMBAT
		Héctor was put at the front in a similar attack in the department of Huila.
		From there, it was about a month and a half's march on foot until we reached the 16th front in Puerto Inírida in the department of Vichada.
		On January 28, 2002, troops from the army's Ninth Brigade returned to a battlefield in northern Huila department to bring in the bodies of fifteen guerrillas killed in clashes during the previous days.
	hrw.org /reports/2003/colombia0903/13.htm (3582 words)

	FTR 2002/UN Commission /
		With a team of senior officials from the national departments, training was provided in international United Nations bodies and mechanisms for protecting human rights -their functions, reports, doctrine and jurisprudence.
		For example, from 28 September to 15 October, FARC imposed an "armed work stoppage" in the department of Arauca, causing a shortage of produce and basic supplies, which had serious consequences for the population most at risk.
		Another case that illustrates paramilitary expansion is the emergence of the AUC Bloque Tolima, thought responsible for some of the deaths in municipalities in the southern part of the department, as in Natagaima.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2002-17.htm (18365 words)

	Sucre Department - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sucre Department - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 01:56, 27 April 2006.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Sucre Department contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sucre_Department (58 words)

	Cases8
		On November 4, 1994, heavily-armed men ambushed three patrols which were on their way to the Chapio mines, in the municipality of Purace, department of Cauca.
		In May 1999 in the municipality of Puerto Rico, department of Caquetá, members of the FARC’s Teófilo Forero group kidnapped 17 persons, including some members of a gnostic religious group and inhabitants of the area.
		They tried to escape from their place of captivity but were chased, found and killed in “Alto de las Cruces”, department of Vichada, on September 17, 1999.
	www.derechoshumanos.gov.co /observatorio/04_publicaciones/04_01_boletines/04_boletin_08/Casos8i.html (712 words)

	WWF Colombia \| Features \| Alliances to Increase Protected Areas in the Orinoco Basin
		Currently, another group is being consolidated in the department of Vichada.
		Thirteen of the total numbers of private reserves in Colombia are located in the state of Meta, one in Cundinamarca, seven in Vichada and two in Arauca.
		The word ‘Nodo’ refers to two or more linked Natural Reserves belonging to the Network that work together to strengthen their interaction regarding territorial and other common interests concerning the protection and conservation of the surrounding biological and cultural area.
	www.wwf.org.co /colombia/articulo_detalle.php?lang=en&ir=a52 (1218 words)

	COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS RE-TAKE THE LAND; PARAS STILL ACTIVE
		Some 10,000 of the weapons were eventually parachuted to the FARC rebels in and around the municipality of Barranco Minas, in the eastern department of Vichada.
		Soghanalian was arrested in December 1999 in Miami and charged with bank fraud and money laundering in California, but he used the argument of close collaboration with the US government to win his freedom in August 2001.
		Early on Sept. 11, the body of Colombian union leader and human rights activist Luciano Enrique Romero Molina was found in Valledupar, capital of Cesar department, in Las Palmas, a sector of the La Nevada neighborhood which is under the control of right-wing paramilitaries.
	www.ww4report.com /node/1145/print (3032 words)

	Noticias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A few weeks ago in Simití, department of Bolívar, we started the official announcement for more than 64.000 rural young men.
		We are exploring a new special project for the department of Vichada, for its definitive conquest.
		This department has a privileged path in the rivers Meta – Orinoco and 6,300,000 hectares of savannas, without including rivers.
	www.colombiaemb.org /opencms/opencms/extras/news_item.html?id=578 (6866 words)

	Colombia Human Rights Network Home Page
		The National Convention is the mechanism by which the ELN hopes to launch peace talks.
		In a new scandal involving local politicians and business people, the Administrative Security Department (DAS) reports that thousands of crooked contracts have drained $7.5 billion from the treasury of the eastern department of Vichada, Efe reports.
		The Attorney General's office free four police officers in the city of Bogota, accused of illegally detaining and torturing a woman.
	colhrnet.igc.org /newitems/aug04/abccolwk.802.htm (1909 words)

	WWF Colombia \| Features \| Consolidation of El Tuparro Biosphere Reserve - an opportunity for participation and ...
		The Tuparro Biosphere Reserve is located in the department of Vichada, Colombia, within the municipalities of Cumariba, La Primavera and Puerto Carreño.
		The status of biosphere reserve, as defined in the Seville Strategy, and its international significance have important implications for inter-institutional and social coordination with regard to the design and implementation of an environmental land-use planning model combining the interests and visions of all the actors involved.
		Aware of the above implications, the team from El Tuparro National Park and members of the Amazon-Orinoco department at the National Parks Unit began a social and institutional project to set out the basis for planning and participative management in the biosphere reserve.
	www.wwf.org.co /colombia/articulo_detalle.php?lang=en&ir=a23 (842 words)

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