Putumayo Department, Colombia

COLLEGE MEETING: Commission acts to boost trust in scientific studies on food safety. Today the Commission is responding to the concerns expressed by citizens in a successful European Citizens' Initiative, with a proposal to improve the transparency of scientific studies in the food safety area.

Therefore we'll meet with all the officials to weigh how the reconstruction turned out," he told reporters at the Military Air Transport Command (Catam) in Bogota, from where he had meant to fly to the capital of Putumayo province. Between the night of March 31 and the morning of April 1, 2017, heavy rains ...

Isacson, who spent a month on the ground in Colombia in February, pointed to Putumayo, a department on Colombia's southern border. ... An antidrug policeman escorts workers during an eradication operation at a coca-leaf plantation near San Miguel, southern Putumayo province, August 15 2012.

However, help was at hand in southern Putumayo province. Since 2005, a collective of 66 groups has been advocating for women's rights. It focuses on the difficulties faced by tens of thousands of displaced women among nearly 146,000 victims of the armed conflict in the region bordering Ecuador.

Putumayo is a department of Colombia, located next to the borders of Ecuador and Peru. In Putumayo, the ANT gave titles to 60 families so that they can formalize their properties. These 60 families were beneficiaries of these titles because they stopped planting coca and began planting legal cultivations in ...

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However, help was at hand in southern Putumayo province. Since 2005, a collective of 66 groups has been advocating for women's rights. It focuses on the difficulties faced by tens of thousands of displaced women among nearly 146,000 victims of the armed conflict in the region bordering Ecuador.

Violent protests have erupted at state-controlled Ecopetrol's Castilla, Chichimene and CPO-9 oilfields in Colombia's central Meta province. ... can pump up to 85,000 barrels of crude daily between the southern Putumayo basin and the Pacific port of Tumaco) it's a dark omen for Colombia's energy patch.

An antidrug policeman escorts workers during an eradication operation at a coca-leaf plantation near San Miguel in southern Putumayo province, Colombia, August 15 2012. REUTERS/Fredy Builes. As levels of cocaine production in Colombia have risen to new records in recent years, more of the drug ...

Without verification by the UN, families taking part in the crop substitution program cannot receive the stipend that helps them survive while awaiting their first legal harvest. Pardo made his statements eight months after his visit to the southern Putumayo province where local farmers were threatened by an ...

Nueva Esperanza, which means “New Hope” in English, sprang up in 2001 when the first displaced families in the country's southern Putumayo department staked out home sites – some using plastic bags as markers. It has since grown to a sprawling informal settlement that is home to 258 families.

In the southwestern department of Putumayo on the border with Ecuador, InSight Crime has identified about 300 dissidents who formerly belonged to the FARC's 38th and 42nd Fronts. These dissidents, whose presence has also been confirmed by the Colombian military, are purportedly maintaining a hold ...

Authorities in Colombia dismantled a cocaine processing laboratory in the department of Putumayo along the border with Ecuador, a further indication that dissident elements of the demobilizing FARC guerrilla group are maintaining operations in this traditional trafficking hub. The head of Colombia's ...

The disaster struck in the early hours of Saturday when the rushing waters of the Mocoa river and its tributaries converged on the capital of Putumayo province, catching many people by surprise as they slept. As the waters rose, one woman identified as Laura Montoya called an emergency helpline from the ...