This page is the sole responsibility of the Colombia Support Network, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Content Updated Dec 22, 1997. Design Update in progress May 28, 2000.
The original rabble-rousing page
The Colombian Army wants to shut down this web page! Why is it so dangerous?
Gloria Cuartas Montoya, a 34 year old social worker and sociologist, was chosen to be the consensus candidate for Mayor of Apartadó - one of the most violent areas of Colombia. She was elected Mayor in the November 1994 election. Today she faces threats to her life - for the sole reason that she is seeking an END TO THE INSANE VIOLENCE. Gloria calls out to the international community, that you do what you can do to help her and her people in their hour of need.
March 10, 1997
Mayor Cuartas was interrogated by the Colombian military about this very web page, despite the fact that she has never seen it. Colombia's military and paramilitary leaders are upset that THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING WHAT THEY DO IN COLOMBIA and that the internet is providing accurate and instantaneous information about their atrocities.
Read the information below and decide what you can do. One vital act can be to either REPRODUCE THIS PAGE (about 35 kb) on your own home page, or PROVIDE A LINK to CSN's page, to help spread the alert, and show the men with guns and hearts of stone that people all over the world are watching what they do in Apartado!
Paramilitaries have encircled Apartadó and are operating in broad daylight with a vow of taking over in the near future. Gloria Cuartas' refusal to capitulate is the only thing stopping them and they will kill her unless people and governments around the world speak out and make the price too high for the Colombian oligarchy. Please help!