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66-74	February 2008 Article Go before you die: A road trip through the “new” Colombia By Patrick Graham SEE ALSO: Cocaine industry; Colombia; Drug traffic; Giraldo, Hernán; Homes and haunts; Journeys—Colombia; Escobar, Pablo; Paramilitary forces; Bolívar, Simón; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
26-28	January 2008 Readings/Article The second time as FARC By Tanja Nijmeijer, Geoffrey Garrison (Trans.), and Wies Ubags (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Colombia; Diaries; Dutch; Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia; Guerrilla warfare; Women guerrillas PDF IMAGES
20-24	March 2005 Readings/Article It's not how they say it is By Yvonne E. (Yvonne Ewing) Keairns SEE ALSO: Colombia; Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia; Women guerrillas PDF IMAGES
66-67	February 2001 Article Fleurs du mal: Thorny truths about the global flower trade By Donovan Hohn and Niala Maharaj SEE ALSO: Colombia; Cut flower industry PDF IMAGES
61-71	December 2000 Article Miraculous fishing: Lost in the swamps of Colombia's drug war By Patrick Symmes SEE ALSO: Colombia; Drug traffic; Guerrillas; Insurgency; Journeys—Colombia; Narcotics, Control of; Symmes, Patrick PDF IMAGES
15-17	October 2000 Readings/Article And death shall have its dominion By Raluca Georgescu (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Career in paramilitary forces; Castaño, Carlos; Colombia; Guerrilla warfare; Interviews; Paramilitary forces PDF IMAGES
17-21	October 2000 Readings/Article This is your war on drugs SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Colombia; Guerrilla warfare; Paramilitary forces PDF IMAGES
60-61	February 2000 Article Guerrilla capitalism: A gringo's guide to doing business in Colombia By Daren Fonda SEE ALSO: Business enterprises, Foreign; Colombia; Gold mines and mining PDF IMAGES
100	February 2000 Article Colombian overdose SEE ALSO: Colombia; Drug traffic; Maps PDF IMAGES
56-59	February 1997 Article Doing the wash: Inside a Colombian cartel's money-laundering machine By Mark Schapiro SEE ALSO: Career in money laundering; Colombia; Drug traffic; Jurado, Franklin; Organized crime PDF IMAGES
58-59	February 1988 Article Invitation to a murder: Colombian death squads send a message By Jamie Fellner SEE ALSO: Assassination; Colombia; Death squads; 1970-; 1974- PDF IMAGES
20	November 1984 Readings/Article From Colombia's drug dealers SEE ALSO: Assassination; Colombia; Drug traffic; Narcotics dealers; Lara Bonilla, Rodrigo PDF IMAGES
18	December 1982 Harper's journal/Article Boycott cocaine By David Owen SEE ALSO: Cocaine; Cocaine industry; Colombia PDF IMAGES
79	February 1955 Article The merciful tenderizer By Ralph McGill SEE ALSO: Chickens; Colombia; Cookery (Poultry); Processing PDF IMAGES
281-292	August 1925 Article By air to the high plateau: Bogotá, the capital above the clouds By William McFee SEE ALSO: Bogotá (Colombia); Colombia; Journeys—Colombia; Mountain flying; Seaplanes; Visitors, Foreign; McFee, William PDF IMAGES
105-116	June 1925 Article Mud, Mussolini, and the motor: The tale of a Colombian journey By William McFee SEE ALSO: Colombia; Journeys—Colombia—Barranquilla; McFee, William PDF IMAGES
289-302	February 1924 Article By air to the heart of the Andes By Blair Niles SEE ALSO: Niles, Blair; Colombia; Journeys—Colombia; Magdalena River (Colombia); Seaplanes PDF IMAGES
259-268	July 1923 Article Revels at Remolino By William McFee SEE ALSO: Colombia; Journeys—Colombia; McFee, William PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 165-175	July 1915 Article John Hay and the Panama Republic: From the unpublished letters of John Hay SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Career as U.S. president; Colombia; Correspondence; Walker, John George; Hay, John; Morgan, John T.; 1901-1909; Panama; Panama Canal (Panama); Bunau-Varilla, Philippe; Portraits; Reyes, Rafael; Roosevelt, Theodore; Herrán, Tomás; MacVeagh, Wayne PDF IMAGES
920-928	November 1889 Article The Republic of Colombia By Ricardo Becerra SEE ALSO: Colombia PDF IMAGES
739-751	November 1856 Article Up and down among the Andes By Isaac F. (Isaac Farwell) Holton SEE ALSO: Andes; Bogotá (Colombia); Colombia; Holton, Isaac F. (Isaac Farwell); Magdalena River (Colombia); New Granada: twenty months in the Andes (Book) PDF IMAGES

Aug 2006	Price, from a Colombian manufacturer, for a custom-made bulletproof sports coat: $1,020 Price for a stab-proof T-shirt: $500	Harper's Index Source: Miguel Caballero (Bogotá)
Mar 2005	Rank of Colombia's stock exchange among the best performers tracked by The Economist last year: 1	Harper's Index Source: Thomson Financial (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2004	Number of political candidates murdered during Colombia's regional election campaigns last year : 26	Harper's Index Source: Colombian Embassy (Washington)
Oct 2003	Percentage change in the number of Colombians killed or disappeared since the U.S. implemented Plan Colombia : +33	Harper's Index Source: Colombian Commission of Jurists (Bogotá)
Jun 2003	Amount of new U.S. military aid for Colombia inserted into the Iraq war bill in March: $105,000,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
Dec 2002	Amount Colombia paid civilians for informing on rebels in its first five weeks of recruiting this year: $340,000	Harper's Index Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)
Dec 2002	Percentage of the 223 trade unionists reported murdered or missing worldwide last year who worked in Colombia: 88	Harper's Index Source: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Brussels)
Oct 2002	Chance that one of the 264 barrios of Medellin, Colombia, is controlled by right-wing paramilitaries: 1 in 4	Harper's Index Source: Delegacion de Reinsurcion (Medellin, Colombia)/Medellin Metropolitan Police
May 2002	Percentage of U.S. pilots spraying defoliants over Colombia who are contract workers hired through a private firm: 100	Harper's Index Source: DynCorp (Reston, Va.)/U.S. Department of State
Dec 2001	Number of minutes of network news coverage devoted to Colombia in the month following September 11: 0	Harper's Index Source: Tyndall Report (N.Y.C.)
Nov 2001	Estimated number of Colombians who live in "Bill Clinton," a homeless settlement near Cartagena: 10,000	Harper's Index Source: United Nations World Food Programme in Latin America (Bogota)
Oct 2001	Minimum number of plant species that can be found only in Colombia: 15,000	Harper's Index Source: Conservation International (Washington)
Oct 2001	Ratio of acres of Colombia sprayed with defoliants last year to acres of Vietnam sprayed with Agent Orange in 1964: 3:2	Harper's Index Source: Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (Washington)/Westing Associates (Putney, Vt.)
Aug 2001	Estimated percentage of Colombia's cocaine exports controlled by right-wing paramilitary leaders: 40	Harper's Index Source: Colombian National Police (Bogot‡)
Aug 2001	Number of right-wing Colombian groups on the United States' designated foreign terrorist list: 0	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State/Harper's research
Aug 2001	Number of left-wing Colombian groups on the United States' designated foreign terrorist list: 2	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State/Harper's research
Jul 2001	Percentage change in the size of Colombia's coca crop since its "Plan Colombia" coca-eradication campaign began in 1999: +11	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
May 2001	Percentage of the victims of politically motivated murders in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, last year who were civilians: 90	Harper's Index Source: Center for International Policy (Washington)
Mar 2001	Average number of messages to kidnapped friends and relatives broadcast each week by a Colombian radio show: 90	Harper's Index Source: Radio Super (Bogot‡, Colombia)
Feb 2001	Estimated amount of Colombian drug money laundered each year via purchases of U.S. goods and services: $3,000,000,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
Feb 2001	Amount this represents as a percentage of U.S. military aid pledged to Colombia last year: 578	Harper's Index Source: Center for International Policy (Washington)
Oct 2000	Factor by which cocaine production in Colombia has increased since 1995: 2	Harper's Index Source: Center for International Policy (Washington)/ U.S. Department of State
Oct 2000	Factor by which annual U.S. military aid to Colombia has increased since 1995: 31	Harper's Index Source: Center for International Policy (Washington)/ U.S. Department of State
Feb 2000	Percentage change in Colombia's estimated cocaine production since 1990: +154	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State (Washington)
Feb 2000	Number of kidnappings reported in Colombia in the first nine months of last year: 2,283	Harper's Index Source: Fundación País Libre (Bogotá, Colombia)
Oct 1999	Factor by which the 123,500 acres of coca that Colombia reports eradicating last year exceeds CIA estimates: 4	Harper's Index Source: CIA (McLean, Va.)/U.N. Drug Control and Crime Prevention Committee (Vienna)

July 3, 2008	Colombian military commandos infiltrated a settlement operated by the guerilla group FARC and freed 15 hostages, among them three U.S. contractors and the Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt. President George W. Bush called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to congratulate him. “What a joyous occasion it must be to know that the plan had worked,” said Bush. “That people who were unjustly held were now free to be with their families.”	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: WhiteHouse.gov
October 10, 2007	The Colombian game show “Nothing but the Truth” was canceled after a woman won $25,000 for admitting to have hired a hit man to kill her husband.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: AP
February 24, 2007	Children at a circus performance in Colombia watched as an attacker shot and killed two clowns, and in Guatemala a dozen homes and two teenagers were swallowed up by a 330-foot-deep sinkhole.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source 1: BBC News Source 2: New York Times
August 15, 2006	Colombia began exporting its big-butt queen ants (Hormiga culona), which taste like juicy popcorn when toasted.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: The Penninsula (Qatar)
June 21, 2006	There was a bumper coca crop in Colombia.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Washington Post
July 14, 2005	People in Colombia were granting amnesty to militia groups in exchange for peace. “A few months ago,” said one man, “I would never have dared walk out here to show you this grave.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Boston.com
April 1, 2005	Five American soldiers were arrested for trying to use military aircraft to smuggle cocaine from Colombia into the United States.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
January 13, 2005	In Colombia, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed while on a counter-narcotics mission, killing all twenty onboard.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Washington Post
December 29, 2004	Murder rates were down in Colombia, and	Weekly Review By Arno Kopecky Source: The Wall Street Journal
December 2, 2004	Colombia's congress voted to overturn a rule that restricts presidents from running for reelection, allowing Alvaro Uribe, an ally of George W. Bush, to run again in 2006.	Weekly Review By Benjamin Austen Source: New York Times
August 27, 2004	Colombian police discovered a genetically engineered variety of coca plant that produces up to four times more cocaine than the traditional varieties.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Telegraph
May 24, 2004	Colombian rebels blew up a disco.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Associated Press
October 9, 2003	A bomb killed six people in Bogotá, Colombia.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
August 25, 2003	Seven people, including one infant, were killed in a boat bombing in Puerto Rico, Colombia.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: BBC
July 4, 2003	Coca-Cola's bottler in Colombia was sued for financing right-wing death squads.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: News.com.au
July 2, 2003	The United States suspended military aid to almost 50 countries, including Colombia, that have failed to promise they will not send American war criminals to the International Criminal Court.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Daily Telegraph
January 29, 2002	A Colombian presidential candidate was handing out samples of Viagra to voters. “We want our votes to dose Colombia with Viagra,” Ingred Betancourt explained, “to lift and to firm up the country, make peace swell, by standing up to the corrupt and stiffening our people.”	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
July 24, 2001	Trade unions and human-rights groups filed suit against Coca-Cola for allegedly hiring right-wing death squads to terrorize workers at bottling plants in Colombia.	Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi and Elizabeth Giddens
June 12, 2001	Carlos Castaño, the leader of the United Self-Defense Forces, an army of death squads that terrorize Colombia, said he was retiring to devote more time to poisoning the legitimate political process.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
February 13, 2001	Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
January 9, 2001	Colombia was spraying Roundup on crops near villages in the Putomayo province as part of the U.S.-backed Plan Colombia antidrug campaign; villagers complained that the pesticide was killing their food crops and livestock and that it was making them sick.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
January 2, 2001	President Andrés Pastrana of Colombia was considering setting up an autonomous zone for the National Liberation Army, Colombia's second-largest rebel group, that would be roughly the same size as the zone controlled by Colombia's largest rebel army, which is roughly the size of Switzerland.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
September 12, 2000	Carlos Castaño, the head of Colombia's rightist paramilitary death squads, released an open letter in which he said that “The crime of anti-subversion or of pro-capitalism cannot exist in a civilized universe.”	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
September 5, 2000	President Clinton went to Colombia and met with President Andres Pastrana, who three years ago was unable to visit the United States because he had accepted a campaign contribution from Cali drug traffickers; the two men discussed “Plan Colombia,” a $7.5 billion plan to fight drug trafficking, of which $1.3 billion will be provided by America.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

134	December 1920 Editor's drawer/Joke A new labor-saving device SEE ALSO: Colombia; Columbia; Industrial efficiency; Peonage; Wheelbarrows PDF IMAGES

23	February 2008 Readings/Illustration Te amo Colombia By Renee McGinnis and James Prinz (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Colombia; Palaces PDF IMAGES

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