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Government Pages
Colombia — web.presidencia.gov.co, http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gov.co
U.S. Embassy, Bogotá — http://bogota.usembassy.gov
British Embassy — http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1097485952887
Canadian Embassy — http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/Colombia/about-en.asp
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores — http://www.minrelext.gov.co (addresses of embassies & consulates)

Ejército Nacional, Republica de Colombia http://www.ejercito.mil.co



Factions
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) — http://www.colombialibre.org
Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Colombia (ELN) — http://www.nodo50.org/patrialibre
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) — http://www.farcep.org

Media
Print:
El Espectador (Bogotá) — http://www.elespectador.com
El Tiempo — http://eltiempo.terra.com.co
El Heraldo (Barranquilla) — http://www.elheraldo.com.co
El Mundo (Medellín) — http://www.elmundo.com
El País (Cali) — http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline
El Universal (Cartagena) — http://www.eluniversal.com.co 
Television Telesur — http://www.telesurtv.net/
Online:
Colombia Indy Media — http://colombia.indymedia.org 
CM & la Noticia — http://www.cmi.com.co
Reuters Alert Net: Colombia Displacement — http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/db/crisisprofiles/CO_DIS.htm, with excellent articles with figures on War on Drugs, narcotrafficking & refugees
Colombian Journal (journalist Gary Leech)— http://colombianjournal.org
More listed at Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org

Tourism
Colombia.com — http://www.colombia.com
Fondo de Promoción Turístico Colombia — http://www.turismocolombia.com/prehome.asp 
Instituto Nacional de Vías — http://www.invias.gov.co (road conditions, maps, etc.)
Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales — http://www.ideam.gov.co

Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi—http://www.igac.gov.co




Blogs and Other Sites
Poor But Happy — http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia
Couch Surfing — http://www.couchsurfing.com (recommended by a traveler from Colombia)
Hospitality Club — http://www.hospitalityclub.org (recommended by a traveler from Colombia)
Platypus — http://platypusbogota.com/info.php 
Third World Traveller — http://www.thirdworldtraveller.com

Mochileros.org— http://www.mochileros.org


Plan B Bogota— http://planb.com.co


Gringo (in Hebrew)— http://www.gringo.co.il/country_page.asp?countryID=9



Human Rights Organizations & Other NGOs
CODHES (Consultoria para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento) — http://www.codhes.org/
Witness for Peace — http://www.witnessforpeace.org
Peace Brigades International — http://www.pbi-colombia.org/pbi-colombia.html
Fellowship of Reconciliation — http://www.forcolombia.org
United Nations High Commission on Refugees — http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/country?iso=col
Amnesty International (International) — http://web.amnesty.org/web/content.nsf/pages/gbr_colombia
Amnesty International (USA) — www.amnestyusa.org/By_Country/Colombia/page.do?id=1011135&n1=3&n2=30&n3=885
Human Rights Watch — http://hrw.org/spanish/informes/1998/guerra7.html 
Refugees International — http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/country/detail/2934 
Global Exchange — http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/Colombia

Indigenous Rights
General Indigenous Actualidad Ética — http://www.etniasdecolombia.org/actualidadetnica/index.asp
Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia — http:// www.onic.org.co
Survival — http:// www.survival-international.org/tribes/arhuaco (Arhuaco: http:// www.survival-international.org/tribes/arhuaco,
Nukak — http://www.survival-international.org/tribes/nukak
Specific Nations :
U'wa Colombia — http:// www.uwacolombia.org/
Wayuunaiki — wayuunaiki.com
NotiWayúu—http://www.notiwayuu.blogspot.com



11 Feb 2008
20 Apr 2009

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