A "humanitarian caravan" from Bogotá arrived in Colombia's southern Andean department of Cauca [2] June 28, bringing food and other aid to hundreds of indigenous campesinos who have been maintaining a protest encampment to prevent the military from establishing a new base at Tres Cruces, in a conflicted area of Miranda municipality. The caravan, which includes many international supporters from Europe and elsewhere, is being organized by former senator Piedad Córdoba [3]'s group Colombians for Peace [4]. The same group on April 23 held a "Patriotic March [5]" in Bogotá, attended by some 100,000, calling for a negotiated end to the conflict with the FARC [6] guerillas. (AFP [7], El Espectador [8], Bogotá, June 28; FOR [9], June 1)
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