COLOMBIA (CONT)

Amnesty International study says paramilitaries are already working as government informers and agents.

McGovern favors the ''peace communities" that have emerged in more than a dozen rural areas. Powered only by local fed-upism regarding the various combatants, they ban all guns at their borders and manage a precarious existence with the help of nongovernmental organizations.

They are, alas, the only bright spot. With US money and ''advisers," Colombia's prospect remains more of the same.

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