COLOMBIA: Santos' Massive Land Reform Plan.

CSMONITOR/SIBYLLA BRODZINSKY : "President Juan Manuel San­tos(Pictured) launched a bold new policy in September that aims not only to offer land to the landless, but to formalize land tenure, rationalize land use, and reverse the violent accumulation of land by illegal forces over the past two decades. In his inaugural speech in August, Mr. Santos, a centrist, vowed to give land to "those who work it with vocation and the sweat of their brow."

AND: "Opposition is coming from ranchers and landowners, as well as former paramilitary fighters who have taken up arms to form criminal gangs. At least 42 leaders of organizations fighting to regain lost land have been murdered in the past five years. Hernando Pérez was the latest victim. He was beaten to death Sept. 20, one day after participating in a government event in the northern Uraba region where Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo had given land titles to 34 families."

COLOMBIA: Profile Of New President Juan Manual Santos.

M.HERALD PROFILE / Special by SIBYLLA BRODZINSKY/
    In a surprize move, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent his Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro to inaugural ceremonies for Colombia's new president Juan Manual Santos while outgoing President Alvaro Uribe filed charges against Chavez before the International Criminal Court in Rome for crimes against humanity. Santos has shown some independence with his cabinet appointments, a few of them even Uribe opponents.

SEE ALSO: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-colombia-uribe-20100807,0,5547679.story

AND : http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/07/uribe-files-complaint-against-chavez-before-international-criminal-court

AND: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-07/santos-to-take-office-vowing-colombia-jobs-as-chavez-cuts-ties-talks-war.html