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Month: November 2008
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Obama’s AG Pick Defended Chiquita in Death Squad Case
Source: The Huffington Post This article was originally published Nov. 6, before President-elect Barack Obama tapped Eric Holder as his pick for the country’s new attorney general. In it’s recent report entitled, "Breaking the Grip? […]
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El Salvador: Company Promoters Shred Social Fabric of Communities
In El Salvador, the residents of one community are feeling the impact of mining long before any ground has been broken. Locals are talking about contamination – but not the kind caused by environmental pollutants – it is "social contamination" that is tearing apart the village of Trinidad, and a Canadian mining company that is being blamed. […]
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Colombia: El conflicto social desplaza la guerra
Fuente: Programa de las Américas El conflicto social pasó a ocupar el centro del escenario político, descolocando al presidente Alvaro Uribe que se limita a repetir el libreto que tanto éxito le dio en la […]
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Peru: “If I Don’t Come Back, Look For Me in Putis”
On Nov. 13, in a crowded room at the Inter-cultural Center at Georgetown University, the audience traveled to Ayacucho, Peru and watched as the Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team-EPAF) exhumed the remains of disappeared persons from the Putis massacre of December 13, 1984. […]
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Despite National and Global Distractions, the Popular Minga Marches on to Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia-As up to 6,000 indigenous protesters participating in the ongoing "Minga Popular" approached the city limits of Ibagué, in the department of Tolima, they were met by a squadron of mounted and special forces police known as ESMAD, as well as the Army, who were given explicit orders by President Alvaro Uribe not to let them into the main highway of the city.
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