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• Eduardo Umaña Mendoza

News from and about Colombia

• El Nacional (Venezuela) 4/30: US military advisers training armed forces on Colombian border
• AP 4/28: Colombians Protest Pension Changes
• 4/28: Urgent Action for Displaced People of El Pinar
• Army Times 4/27: Interview with Maria Emma Mejia, Colombian Foreign Minister
• U.S. Defense Department - Colombia News Briefings
• NACLA: The Wars Within: Counterinsurgency in Chiapas & Colombia
• The U.S. is at War in Colombia, by Mario Murillo
• Five arrested in LA Protest against Occidental Petroleum (OXY)
• Berita Kuwar U'wa receives 1998 Goldman Environmental Prize for U'wa Peoples' courageous battle against OXY in Colombia, to protect the Earth
• Colombian jungles threatened by U.S. 'toxic rain'
• Colombian Environmentalists flee death squads
• 4/18 Assassination of Human Right Defender Eduardo Umaña Mendoza
• "Heresy"--article written by assassinated Mario Calderon
• 4/16: U.S. tells Colombia that its military is imperiling current hostages
• 4/16: The Guardian: Story on PBI in Colombia
• 4/14 NY Times: Why Occidental's oil project is a death sentence for the U'wa
• 4/13: 2.5 million children in Colombia forced to work
• 4/11: Chemical war on the Colombian environment?
• 4/10: Colombian Rebels Seen Winning War U.S. Study Finds Army Inept, Ill-Equipped
• CSN Statement on the Detention of U.S. Birdwatchers in Colombia
• Information published about detention of 4 U.S.Colombia
• NY Times: U.S. wants to increase $ for "war on drugs"