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News from and about Colombia

• U.S. Forces Training Troops in Colombia
• ACCIÓN URGENTE POR LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
• Nos escriben los Colombianos a CSN
• Week's news from Colombia, from Weekly News Update on the Americas, week ending 5/24/98
• Former U.S. official calls for a UN peace process for Colombia
• Miami Herald: Army Unit to be disbanded
• Carta al Comandante de Latin American Policia de Turbo
• Urgent Action - Protect Labor Leaders from Death Squads
• Oil Workers Strike against repression
• Urgent Action--Barranca, May 18
• Special report by Houston Chronicle
• Open Letter to Pres. Samper from Amnesty International
• Reporter killed on Cali May 19
• Urgent Action--Bellacruz Ranch, May 18
• Pentagon Press Briefings (April 98) with info on Colombia
• COMUNIDAD ACADEMICA INTERNACIONAL LLAMA AL RESPETO DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN COLOMBIA
• PLANTON EN EMBAJADA COLOMBIANA DE ECUADOR
• El Tiempo: Galer’a de la impunidad
• COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA, DE JUSTICIA Y PAZ, SOBRE LOS HECHOS OCURRIDOS EL 13 DE MAYO DE 1998
• MOTIVO DEL ALLANAMIENTO A LA SEDE DE JUSTICIA Y PAZ
• Ottawa 5/31-6/3 - Confront the Latin American Air Force Chiefs
• Barranca: DEATH SQUAD KILLS UP TO 30 PEOPLE
• New Book on Innovative, Peaceful Community in Colombia
• Week's news from Colombia, from Weekly News Update on the Americas, week ending 5/17/98
• Miami Herald: COLOMBIA ARMY UNIT QUESTIONED IN DEATHS
• Call for Demonstrations/Jornada por La Paz y Contra Impunidad
• ICCHRLA denounces attack on Justicia y Paz
• Amnesty Intl issues Urgent Appeal to Protect Justicia y Paz
• U.S. revokes General's Visa
• LINK: Arquidiocesis de Medellin - Pastoral Social (Espanol)
• US FBI Director Freeh Seen in Bogota with Colombian Police General Serrano May 14: Details as we learn more....
• Urgent: Justicia y Paz raided
• Comunicado Urgente - Allanamiento a NGO Justicia y Paz
• CSN Condemns Murder of Gen. Landazabal
• CSN condena la assassination de Gen. Landazabal
• Former Defense Minister Assassinated
• Campesinos murdered
• Check out the March/April of NACLA's Report on the Americas!
• More on 4/18 Assassination of Human Right Defender Eduardo Umaña Mendoza: Letters of Protest, etc
• Week's news from Colombia, from Weekly News Update on the Americas, week ending 5/10/98
• Colombian Army's XX Intelligence Brigade fingered as master murderers
• Conservative US magazine asks "Is Colombia lost to the rebels?"
• Colombian Paramilitaries say they want U.S. to step in
• Colombian human rights advocates are targets for murder
• 28 Colombian villages on Death Squad hit list
• Civilians massacred at Puerto Alvira
• Dow Chemical calls for ban on 'SPIKE' defolliant in Colombia 'drug war'
• Week's news from Colombia, from Weekly News Update on the Americas, week ending 5/3/98
• U.S. Commander Wilhelm arrives in Colombia
• Columnist Jack Anderson blasts U.S. 'drug' war on Colombia
• Intl Red Cross calls for "playing fair" in Colombia's dirty war
• Eur. Community assists ~million Colombian refugees
• Chiquita Banana Exposed by Cleveland Enquirer
• Samper authorizes official contact with rebels
• Rebels point finger at Colombian Army as assassins
• U.S. military advisors at Venezuela-Colombian border
• Colombians protest attack on pensions, nail themselves to crosses
• Urgent Action for Antioquians --- but leaders murdered in the time it took to get the message out to the world
• Interview with Colombian Foreign Minister
• LINK: Stop The Drug War web site, lots of stuff on U.S. policy re the Drug War
• LINK: In Focus report on Colombia from late 1997