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      Aid cutbacks leave bitter taste in war on cocaine

      Posted by Billbar from The Standard

      As part of the US strategy to win over coca growers, almost 20 percent of annual assistance is devoted to nonmilitary social programs and development projects. Managing this "soft side" of diplomacy is USAID, whose mission in Colombia is its biggest in the hemisphere. But under the agency's new five-year US$350 million plan for development projects, Caqueta and four other Amazonian states where coca production is rising won't receive a penny. "It makes no sense for residents of a historical guerrilla stronghold to be subjected to a strategy of all stick and no carrot - combats, mass arrests, searches and fumigation, but no aid," said Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy.

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    • Church Condemns Abortion Performed on Raped Girl, 11

      Posted by Billbar from Truth Out

      A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a medical team who performed Colombia's first legal abortion on an 11-year-old girl, who was eight weeks pregnant after being raped by her stepfather. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, the president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, said in addition to the doctors and nurses, the measure could apply to "relatives, politicians and lawmakers" whom he called "protagonists in this abominable crime." The girl, whose identity has not been released, had "fallen in the hands of evildoers", the cardinal said in an interview with local television on Tuesday.

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      Uribe's Second Term Is a First

      Posted by Billbar from Los Angeles Times

      President Alvaro Uribe swept to a reelection victory Sunday as voters gave him a resounding vote of confidence for having reduced violence and reignited the economy, and for restored confidence in a nation that four years ago seemed on the verge of disintegration.

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      Colombia, US smash cocaine ring

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      Colombian and U.S. authorities said on Wednesday they had nabbed a major drug smuggler and 31 associates wanted for extradition by Washington for shipping 70 tonnes of cocaine to the United States.

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    • Town May Make Carrying Condoms Mandatory

      Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

      In response to an AIDS epidemic, a councilman in Tulua, Columbia, said Wednesday he will present a formal proposal to force all men and women — even those just visiting — over the age of 14 to always carry at least one condom. Those caught empty-pocketed could pay a fine of $180 or take a safe sex course.

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