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Four hundred Embera-Katio indigenous people have come to Bogotá from their distant lands in Cordoba near the Caribbean Coast of Colombia to demand that the Colombian government meet with them concerning the construction of the second hydroelectric dam on their lands. The first dam, ‘Urra 1’, flooded 7,400 hectares of land in 1999, destroying the rivers which were the source of food, transportation, and culture for the Embera-Katio people. Now the multinational (Canada, Sweden and Russia) company Urra plans to construct a second dam which would flood many more hectares. <!--break--> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_001.JPG"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><country-region /><place /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Colombia</span></b></place /></country-region /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">: The Embera KatÃo indigenous people fight multinationals</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><date year="2004" day="30" month="12" /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">December 30, 2004</span></b></date /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"></span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Interview and pictures by NOTICOL</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Four hundred Embera-Katio indigenous people have come to Bogotá from their distant lands in </span><city /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cordoba</span></place /></city /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> near the Caribbean Coast of Colombia to demand that the Colombian government meet with them concerning the construction of the second hydroelectric dam on their lands. The first dam, ‘Urra 1’, flooded 7,400 hectares of land in 1999, destroying the rivers which were the source of food, transportation, and culture for the Embera-Katio people. Now the multinational (</span><country-region /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Canada</span></place /></country-region /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </span><country-region /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sweden</span></place /></country-region /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and </span><country-region /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Russia</span></place /></country-region /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">) company Urra plans to construct a second dam which would flood many more hectares.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is part of an interview with one of the organizers. Unfortunately this person has received death threats and therefore cannot be identified.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHAT HAS BEEN THE EFFECT OF THE ‘URRA I’ DAM ON THE EMBERA-KATIO COMMUNITIES?</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The major effect on the Embera–Katio people of the Alta Sinu has been the loss of the fish which is their principle source of protein. In addition, the fish were the main symbolic reference of the culture and when the fish were gone this reference disappeared. Contrary to the world tendency of better growth for children because of better diets, the children here are suffering from an increase in malnutrition. You can see that the children are now smaller and more malnourished because there are no fish in the area. Another problem is that the flooding for the dam has stimulated the reproduction of mosquitoes, increasing the prevalence of malaria. There has also been a rise in respiratory infections.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 400 PEOPE FROM THE EMBERA-KATIO COMMUNITY HERE IN </span></b><city /><place /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BOGOTA</span></b></place /></city /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. CAN YOU TELL US WHY YOU ARE HERE?</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On October 27<sup>th</sup> we took our protest to </span><city /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monteria</span></place /></city /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. We attempted to negotiate with the national government for a month. The government as well as the Urra Company refused to negotiate with us or come to any agreements. Due to this we decided to come to </span><city /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bogota</span></place /></city /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to talk with the government here and particularly with the Ministry of the Environment. The government has become subordinate to the interests of the Urra Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The protest is focused on addressing environmental destruction as well as respect for human rights in the region.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE FROM </span></b><city /><place /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CORDOBA</span></b></place /></city /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">? WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU COULD NOT RESOLVE IN </span></b><city /><place /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONTERIA</span></b></place /></city /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </span></b><city /><place /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CORDOBA</span></b></place /></city /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">?</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Our meeting with the national government in </span><city /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cordoba</span></place /></city /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> was fruitless. In fact it was a mockery of the Embera people. They wouldn’t listen to us and they paralyzed the discussions for 15 days. They didn’t even show up for the signing of the agreements with the Embera people. Because of this we came to Bogotá.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></b><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HAVE YOU HAD ANY ANSWERS FROM THE GOVERNMENT SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN HERE?</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The police and military have responded by beating two pregnant women and a child. They came to expel us from the Ministry of the Environment at </span><time minute="0" hour="3" /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3AM</span></time /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> with orders to take us out of </span><city /><place /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bogota</span></place /></city /><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. It seems that this was an order by Sabas Peralt de la Vega and President Uribe because they don’t want anything to do with us.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT NOT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU?</span></b></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Since Uribe’s government is looking toward re-election they want to hide social conflict from the Colombian society. Uribe is afraid that the country and the international community will realize that he is not guaranteeing the rights of the nation and even less the rights of marginalized groups like the indigenous communities.</span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p /><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><p /></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p></p><p> </p><img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_002.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_003.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_004.JPG"><br> <img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_005.JPG"><br>
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<p>Four hundred Embera-Katio indigenous people have come to Bogotá from their distant lands in Cordoba near the Caribbean Coast of Colombia to demand that the Colombian government meet with them concerning the construction of the second hydroelectric dam on their lands. The first dam, ‘Urra 1’, flooded 7,400 hectares of land in 1999, destroying the rivers which were the source of food, transportation, and culture for the Embera-Katio people. Now the multinational (Canada, Sweden and Russia) company Urra plans to construct a second dam which would flood many more hectares.</p> <!--break--><p><img class="dada-image-center" src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/migrate_dada/Pueblo_Embera-Katio_001.JPG" /><br /><br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Colombia</span></b>/>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">: The Embera KatÃo indigenous people fight multinationals</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><date year="2004" day="30" month="12"></date><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">December 30, 2004</span></b>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"></span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Interview and pictures by NOTICOL</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Four hundred Embera-Katio indigenous people have come to Bogotá from their distant lands in </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cordoba</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> near the Caribbean Coast of Colombia to demand that the Colombian government meet with them concerning the construction of the second hydroelectric dam on their lands. The first dam, ‘Urra 1’, flooded 7,400 hectares of land in 1999, destroying the rivers which were the source of food, transportation, and culture for the Embera-Katio people. Now the multinational (</span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Canada</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sweden</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> and </span><country-region></country-region><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Russia</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">) company Urra plans to construct a second dam which would flood many more hectares.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is part of an interview with one of the organizers. Unfortunately this person has received death threats and therefore cannot be identified.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHAT HAS BEEN THE EFFECT OF THE ‘URRA I’ DAM ON THE EMBERA-KATIO COMMUNITIES?</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The major effect on the Embera–Katio people of the Alta Sinu has been the loss of the fish which is their principle source of protein. In addition, the fish were the main symbolic reference of the culture and when the fish were gone this reference disappeared. Contrary to the world tendency of better growth for children because of better diets, the children here are suffering from an increase in malnutrition. You can see that the children are now smaller and more malnourished because there are no fish in the area. Another problem is that the flooding for the dam has stimulated the reproduction of mosquitoes, increasing the prevalence of malaria. There has also been a rise in respiratory infections.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 400 PEOPE FROM THE EMBERA-KATIO COMMUNITY HERE IN </span></b><city></city><br /> <place></place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BOGOTA</span></b>/>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. CAN YOU TELL US WHY YOU ARE HERE?</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On October 27<sup>th</sup> we took our protest to </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monteria</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. We attempted to negotiate with the national government for a month. The government as well as the Urra Company refused to negotiate with us or come to any agreements. Due to this we decided to come to </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bogota</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to talk with the government here and particularly with the Ministry of the Environment. The government has become subordinate to the interests of the Urra Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The protest is focused on addressing environmental destruction as well as respect for human rights in the region.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE FROM </span></b><city></city><br /> <place></place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CORDOBA</span></b>/>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">? WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU COULD NOT RESOLVE IN </span></b><city></city><br /> <place></place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONTERIA</span></b>/>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </span></b><city></city><br /> <place></place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">CORDOBA</span></b>/>/><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">?</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Our meeting with the national government in </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cordoba</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> was fruitless. In fact it was a mockery of the Embera people. They wouldn’t listen to us and they paralyzed the discussions for 15 days. They didn’t even show up for the signing of the agreements with the Embera people. Because of this we came to Bogotá.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></b><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HAVE YOU HAD ANY ANSWERS FROM THE GOVERNMENT SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN HERE?</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The police and military have responded by beating two pregnant women and a child. They came to expel us from the Ministry of the Environment at </span><time minute="0" hour="3"></time><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3AM</span>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> with orders to take us out of </span><city></city><br /> <place></place><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bogota</span>/>/><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. It seems that this was an order by Sabas Peralt de la Vega and President Uribe because they don’t want anything to do with us.</span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><br /> </p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT NOT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU?</span></b></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Since Uribe’s government is looking toward re-election they want to hide social conflict from the Colombian society. 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