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  • Afro-Colombian leader Adil Meléndez reveals Cartagena's hidden, apartheid-like injustices
    By Andy Klatt - August 21, 2011 - 10:44am

    We are very happy to be able to announce that Adil Meléndez has been granted a visa and will be our guest on the 2011 fall tour of the Colombia Human Rights Network. Adil currently lives in Cartagena and is originally from the municipality of San Onofre, in Sucre department. Adil is a full-time attorney and has been a political activist from an early age.

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  • Some thoughts on Obama and Santos' "Free Trade Pact"
    By Dan Feder - April 17, 2011 - 3:28pm

    I had the privilege to speak to Jesús Emilio Tuberquia last weekend at the Latin America Solidarity Conference in Washington, DC last weekend. Tuberquia is a representative of the Peace Community of San José Apartado in northwestern Colombia (see this writeup
     from the Fellowship of Reconciliation on his visit to the United States).

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  • 27 Arrested Calling for Closure of the School of the Americas at the White House
    By Dan Feder - April 11, 2011 - 3:04pm

    SOA Watch reports:

    White House, Washington, D.C. - On Sunday, April 10, 27 human rights activists were arrested in front of the White House when they staged a die-in on the White House sidewalk to call attention to thousands of Latin Americans who were murdered by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas. The die-in followed a march of hundreds of human rights activists to the White House. The march included torture survivors, union workers, educators and students from across the Americas. Marchers carried banners, flags and large puppets, including a 14-foot tall Mother of the Disappeared with them to the White House.

    All of the arrested were released after processing, according to SOA watch spokesperson Hendrik Goss.

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