"Mami" Warbucks."SHE THOUGHT OF COLOMBIA!" "Join Our Self-Defense Forces!" and 'We're Waiting for You, Friend." Despite the public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most sheen, the poster is from the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, not the Colombian Army. It's just another salvo in a widening struggle between the government, the 5,000strong Autodefensas and other guerrilla groups. President Andres Pastrana's 2-year-old peace negotiations have produced painfully little progress, because the warring factions make billions from drug trafficking, kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with . Using $1.3 billion in U.S. aid, the Colombian Army hopes to slash and burn This article is about the agricultural practice of slash and burn. For the military tactic, see scorched earth. Slash and burn refers to the cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a the source of the militias' illicit wealth--cocaine and heroin operations. The law-and-order approach might not bring the factions in the 36-year-old conflict to the table, but it will definitely escalate the amount of money spent on military hardware. War is big business in Colombia. And it's about to get bigger. |
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