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News from and about Colombia

• Update on urgent situation in San Jose de Apartado, from CSN delegation that just visted there
• Article by Ana Carrigan and Robert Weiner from Sunday 8/17 Washington Post
• Ana Carrigan reports on a ray of hope for Colombia: The Triumph of Civil Society amidst Colombia's Civil War, from Civitas' online magazine
• Statement (in Spanish) of Afro- Colombian peasant association of the Atrato area denouncing the current violence against their peoples, at the hands of the paramilitaries
• Letter (in English) from Father Javier Giraldo, S.J., documenting the recent human rights violations in Uraba and
• Fr. Giraldo responds to Gen. Rito Alejo del Rio in August 97 (Previous Letter)