Armenia Quindio
Colombia
Guerrillas failed to respect the injured and medical personnel. Both the FARC and the ELN frequently executed wounded prisoners, threatened and harassed doctors and nurses, and killed enemy combatants receiving medical care. For example, in February, the FARC kidnapped a nurse from her car in Armenia, Quindio Department. ... [Read More]
South America
Problems Aerial Spray OperationsA GOC decree in early CY-2002 limited USG aerial spray operations to a concentration of eight liters of Glyphosate per hectare in eradicating coca. Due to the decreased efficiency of this dose, NAS lobbied for a return to the concentration of 10.4 liters of Glyphosate per hectare that the spray program used successfully and safely for years. The new Uribe administration provided a temporary fix in August by issuing permission for the use of the 10.4 liters concentration in the key departments of Caqueta and Putumayo. Further NAS urging resulted in GOC approval to use the more effective concentration throughout the country. The GOC and NAS recognized two viable complaints in CY-2002 from farmers ... [Read More]
Colombia
The Bishop's Conference of the Roman Catholic Church reported that illegal armed groups killed 11 Catholic priests during the year. The FARC is suspected of most of these killings. On January 12, Guillermo Leon Corrales, a Roman Catholic priest resident overseas who was visiting family, was killed in the town of La Estrella, near Medellin, Antioquia department. Several years earlier, Corrales had been threatened by members of a radical leftist student organization at the Medellin high school where he taught. Another priest was confirmed killed by the FARC in the same region the following day. The Government was investigating the possibility that the killings were related. On March 16, Isaias Duarte, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cali, was killed as he left a church in a poor Cali neighborhood. On November 29, the Fiscalia indicted FARC 30th Front commander John Fredy Jimenez and a hired gunman for carrying out the crime. A second gunman had been kil ... [Read More]
South America – Educational Advising Centers – EducationUSA
COLOMBIA - Armenia, Quindio ... Bogota | Armenia, Quindio | Barranquilla, Atlantico | Bucaramanga, Columbia | Cali, Valle | Cartagena, Bolivar | Manizales | Medellin | Pereira, Risaralda COLOMBIA - Bogota ... [Read More]
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