Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:10:42 -0500 From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-pangea.ca> Subject: think *snuff films* are offensive? http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/colo-a16.shtml qw/ With a new $1.3 billion US military package beginning to flow to the Colombian armed forces, and preparations under way for President Clinton to visit the South American nation on August 30, there are growing indications that the escalating US intervention is already intensifying the country's four-decade-old civil war... / http://www.latimes.com/wires/20000821/tCB00a1872.html qw/ Colombia Rounds Up Beggars Ahead of Clinton Visit BOGOTA--Colombian authorities have rounded up some 300 street children and beggars in the Caribbean coastal resort of Cartagena and banished them to its outskirts ahead of President Clinton's visit next week, local media said on Monday... / http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000818_1757.html qw/ Colombian Mass Suicide Threatened Over U.S. Oil Firm BOGOTA (Reuters) - A U.S. oil firm is due to drill a controversial test well in September in a disputed corner of northeast Colombia where U"wa Indians have even threatened to commit mass suicide to defend what they claim as ancestral land rights, the country"s oil association chief said on Friday. Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp had been due to sink the Gibraltar-1 well, at an estimated cost of $40 million, in the first half of this year in the so-called Samore block just outside the government-mandated limits of the U"wa reservation... / --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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