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Latin American Scholars Ask for New Partnership

January 16, 2009
Latin American Scholars Ask for New Partnership

October 12, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: We write to offer our congratu-lations on your campaign and to express our hope that as the next president of the United States you will take advantage of an historic opportunity to improve relations with Latin America. As scholars of the region, we also wish to convey our...
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Colombian Secret Documents: US Aware of Army Killings

January 16, 2009
Colombian Secret Documents: US Aware of Army Killings

By Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Jan 12 (IPS) Declassified U.S. documents show that the CIA and former U.S. ambassadors were fully aware, as far back as 1990, that the military in Colombia – the third largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and Egypt – were committing extrajudicial killings as part of “death squad tactics.”...
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Open Letter to Obama: Afro-Colombian Victims Speak Out

January 16, 2009
Open Letter to Obama: Afro-Colombian Victims Speak Out

MR. BARACK H. OBAMA President-elect of the United States of America On behalf of our African-descendant organizations and communities, of the ancestral land of Africa bringing us together and from which we were brought as slaves and we now share a legacy in the territories of the Americas in the search for freedom and...
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Agrofuels Are an Obstacle to Food and Energy Sovereignty

January 16, 2009
Agrofuels Are an Obstacle to Food and Energy Sovereignty

Final Declaration of the International Seminar: Agrofuels as an Obstacle to Food and Energy Sovereignty, held in São Paulo, 17-19 November 2008, representing organizations and social movements from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Ecuador, Paraguay, Thailand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and the United States, who have come together in São Paulo...
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Open Letter to Obama from Colombia

December 16, 2008

SIGN LETTER TO OBAMA ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA The staff of 8th Day Center has been working with partners in Colombia for more than ten years to stop human rights abuses in that country. To this end, the staff has traveled to Colombia seven times to learn, first-hand, about the struggle of the...
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