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		<title>Andalgalá protesta en Buenos Aires</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mujer de Andalgalá se encadena en los tribunales de Buenos Aires. Reclaman atención al conflicto que vive el pueblo catamarqueño y anuncian el ultimatum que éste le dá a las empresas mineras para que se vayan de la zona. ]]></description>
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Mujer de Andalgalá se encadena en los tribunales de Buenos Aires. Reclaman atención al conflicto que vive el pueblo catamarqueño y anuncian el ultimatum que éste le dá a las empresas mineras para que se vayan de la zona.</p>
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		<title>Fidel Castro y Colombianos por la Paz se reúnen en La Habana</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Una representación de Colombianos y Colombianas por la Paz, encabezados por la senadora Piedad Córdoba fue recibida por Fidel Castro en la mañana de este domingo en La Habana, dando cumplimiento al compromiso hecho cuando la legisladora se encontró hace unos días con el líder de la Revolución para evaluar la contribución que luchadores por [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Una representación de Colombianos y Colombianas por la Paz, encabezados  por  la senadora Piedad Córdoba fue recibida por Fidel Castro en la  mañana de este  domingo en La Habana, dando cumplimiento al compromiso  hecho cuando la  legisladora se encontró hace unos días con el líder de  la Revolución para  evaluar la contribución que luchadores por la paz  como ella, podrían hacer para  evitar una conflagración que hoy se  vislumbra como una amenaza mundial de  consecuencias imprevisibles.</p>
<p>Esta vez acompañaron a la senadora, otros cinco defensores de  derechos  humanos: el Padre jesuita Javier Giraldo, Carlos A Ruiz,  Danilo Rueda, Hernando  Gómez, psicólogo y profesor Universitario y el  cineasta Lisandro Duque. Tras un  intercambio inicial de impresiones  sobre la situación en la región y en el  mundo, Fidel insistió en su  esperanza de que un hombre como Obama, en cuyos  orígenes se mezclan  negros y blancos, cristianos y musulmanes —características  que lo  acercan mucho a la sensibilidad de la legisladora colombiana— pueda   escuchar las voces de quienes de tanto sufrir la guerra, viven empeñados  en  conseguir la paz y podrían disuadirlo de apretar el gatillo.</p>
<p>Fidel les comentó a los visitantes que el pasado 13, día de su  cumpleaños,  lo pasó con viejos compañeros de lucha y a ellos también  les pregunto si no  tenían esperanzas de que se pueda conseguir detener  la guerra que podría  desatarse una vez vencido el plazo dado por la  resolución del Consejo de  Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas. “Muy mal  estaríamos si no albergáramos la  esperanza de que la humanidad no vaya a  la guerra” comentó, persistiendo en su  convicción de que siempre es  posible movilizar a las personas si son  conscientes de que sus acciones  por la paz entrañan la posibilidad de salvarse  ellos y salvarnos  todos.</p>
<p>La senadora Piedad Córdoba recordó a sus acompañantes sus  impresiones del  primer encuentro con el Comandante en días pasados:  “Fidel es capaz de mirar en  Obama a un ser humano que sintetiza en sí  mismo una cantidad de cosas que se  dan como por azar: por nacer de  quienes nace, por venir de donde viene y por lo  que representa ese  origen dentro de las religiosidades. Entonces su pedido es  como una  apelación a esa cantidad de cosas que sensibilizan a ese ser humano   para impedir la guerra.”</p>
<p>A la salida del encuentro, que duró cerca de dos horas y en el  que Fidel  obsequió a los visitantes, autografiados, ejemplares de su  libro <em>La victoria estratégica</em>, Piedad comentó  emocionada:  “Esta es como una segunda oportunidad que nos dan a nosotros la  vida y  la historia. Y que este Fidel vivo, es como que el Dios creador de todo   nos hubiera dicho: bueno, ahí se los dejo, tienen esa oportunidad. Como  él ha  dicho tantas veces, si no nos unimos, perdemos y por la fuerza  no se ganan las  guerras. Es el tiempo de la razón y de la política y a  mi personalmente me  provoca que la vida nos está dando ese regalo.”</p>
<p><em>Fuente: Cubadebate</em></p>
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		<title>Foro Social llama a redoblar la lucha por la soberanía de los pueblos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASUNCIÓN.— El IV Foro Social de las Américas llamó este domingo a los movimientos, organizaciones y redes sociales del continente a redoblar la lucha por la soberanía de nuestros pueblos. El Presidente de Paraguay, recibió en Asunción a sus homólogos de Bolivia y Uruguay. Con un acto multitudinario en presencia de los presidentes Evo Morales [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ASUNCIÓN.— El <strong>IV Foro Social de las Américas</strong> llamó  este  domingo a los movimientos, organizaciones y redes sociales del  continente a  redoblar la lucha por la soberanía de nuestros pueblos.</p>
<p>El Presidente de  Paraguay, recibió en Asunción a sus homólogos de Bolivia y Uruguay.</p>
<p>Con un acto  multitudinario en presencia de los presidentes  Evo Morales (Bolivia), Fernando  Lugo (Paraguay) y José Mujica  (Uruguay), este evento de concertación culminó en  esta capital sus  sesiones, a la que asistieron más de 10 000 participantes de  América  Latina y Europa, informó Prensa Latina.</p>
<p>Lugo exhortó a los  paraguayos a apostar por el futuro y  multiplicar voluntades, al realizar el  balance de los dos primeros años  de su gestión que se cumplieron este 15 de  agosto.</p>
<p>A su vez, Mujica censuró  el proceso de <strong>democracia</strong> occidental  que se ha querido imponer en el mundo, con una civilización  occidental agresiva  que pretende ser la única posible en el planeta.</p>
<p>De acuerdo con ANSA,  Morales en su intervención en el Foro  señaló que los pueblos unidos y  organizados, son mucho más fuertes que  cualquier Estado del mundo, “y eso ya se  demostró en varios países de  la región”; destacó que las bases militares  estadounidenses en  Sudamérica trabajan contra la integración en la región.</p>
<p>En la declaración final,  la asamblea alerta sobre la  articulación acelerada de la derecha para intentar  frenar cualquier  proceso de cambio en Nuestra América; denunció la ilegitimidad  del  presidente de facto de Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, y expresó su <strong>solidaridad </strong>con el pueblo de Haití.</p>
<p><strong>Avances del Urupabol</strong></p>
<p>Con anterioridad, Lugo,  Mujica y Morales habían acordado  avances en materia de integración física y  energética, y fijaron un  nuevo encuentro, en Montevideo, que tendrá como  prioridad el tema del  gas y la electricidad, dijo DPA.</p>
<p>Las tres naciones  integran el bloque URUPABOL, que nació en  1963, pero que nunca llegó a  desarrollarse y solo el año pasado fue  reactivado a instancias de Morales.</p>
<p>Fuente: <em>Granma</em></p>
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		<title>Protest Against U.S Imperialism in Latin America.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday: August, 27th 4-6pm at: Federal Building #90 7th St. SF (corner of Mision and 7th)]]></description>
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		<title>Resisting Militarization and Promoting a Culture of Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report back from the first Encuentro of the Americas: ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>In the shadow of Venezuela´s emerald green Andes mountains, activists from 19 countries of the Americas gathered in June to share experiences and strategies in resisting militarization and promoting a culture of peace.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong> <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=1Psc94uG0aDESjgYYIFedkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.soaw.org/img/colleen.jpg" border="0" alt="" vspace="6" width="230" align="right" /></a>Among them were those who had witnessed the disappearance of their family members at the hands of the SOA as well as an SOA graduate now committed to the closing of the school. They were joined by those who had gone to jail in the U.S. to protest the SOA, and those who had been jailed and tortured in Latin America by SOA graduates. The group, spanning 50 years of age and thousands of miles of distance, was united in their commitment to work together bring peace to <em>&#8220;Una Sola America&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>SOA Watch activists from Toronto to Florida, and California to Maine shared their multiple efforts to bring the doors of the SOA to a close. Their partners from the South brought awareness of U.S. militarization in their countries, such as 7 military bases occupied by the U.S. in Colombia, an SOA-engineered repressive regime in Honduras, U.S. troops and ships headed to Costa Rica, the military occupation of Haiti and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, among other concerns. <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=DGDL7Xmi2TVQb4d7Q%2BCRwUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.soaw.org/img/honduras.jpg" border="0" alt="" vspace="6" width="230" align="left" /></a>The Southern partners expressed their gratitude for the efforts of their northern partners in trying to close the SOA, but encouraged them to broaden their focus to these new expressions of the SOA that pose even greater threats to their people.</p>
<p>On the final evening of the gathering, in the cool mountain air, participants gathered around a map of &#8220;America&#8221; from Alaska to Patagonia, with no borders delineated. At the center was a clay pot containing a mixture of the soil brought from 19 lands. One by one the participants passed some of the mixed soil to one another to take back with them, saying, <em>&#8220;Somos una Sola America&#8221;</em> (We are one America). Hours earlier, <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=262Qhb8dkplBR3BLG2D0NEkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">ten agreements</a> had been reached, such as the organization of simultaneous actions throughout the Americas in coordination with the November vigil. However, it was clear that even more than written agreements, it was the connections and the vision of being Una Sola America that would truly move peace forward in the continent. As one participant said on the last evening, <em><strong>&#8220;this Encuentro has not ended. It has just begun.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=TfYnh1oyFpnQW4L8%2FXjXakkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.soaw.org/img/encuentrooftheamericassm.jpg" border="0" alt="" vspace="6" width="400" /></a></p>
<hr /><strong>Radio interview about the Encuentro</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=2a8oL2GCITbXzUQAHfohn0kvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.soaw.org/img/carmenar.jpg" alt="" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="170" align="right" />Click here to listen to a radio interview about the <strong>Encuentro of the Americas</strong></a> by Carmen Andrea Rivera of KPFA&#8217;s La Raza Chronicles with the Encuentro participants John Lindsay-Poland and Theresa Cameranesi.</p>
<p>Download the mp3 file:<br />
<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=ZuZ44PM0w63TzTyjsz5GL0kvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">SOAW.org/docs/encuentro.mp3</a></p>
<hr />The following people participated in the Encuentro:<br />
<em>Click on the country names for <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=H4LdvT8fVWZEor06CJh7gEkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">country summaries</a> that were presented by participants during the Encuentro.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=l5qtN%2BPZ2Npm8bWDCgtNZkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Argentina</a> &#8211; Rina Bertaccinni<br />
Movimiento por la Paz, la Soberanía y la Solidaridad entre los Pueblos, Mopassol</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=jX8OhC8hspYH%2Fe3YfgzvjkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Argentina</a> &#8211; Gabriela Uassouf<br />
SOAW Latin America office Summer intern, Encuentro Planning team</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=DLTLBHzHVLZcLXTsfNFp5UkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Bolivia</a> &#8211; Zulema Callejas<br />
Instituto de Terapia e Investigación sobre las secuelas de la Tortura y Violencia Estatal&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=ZuZ44PM0w61ooXBDG09KlkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Colombia</a> &#8211; Pablo Cala<br />
Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=NI4DPX2mkAvhHFCPlSJ7KEkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Colombia</a> &#8211; Eduardo Carreño<br />
Colectivo de Abogados &#8220;José Alvear Restrepo&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=MIEQ9x61RzSWk1t73SH1kUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Colombia</a> &#8211; Enrique Daza<br />
Alianza Social Continental<br />
Red Colombiana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=7PboK6MMm%2B%2Fhnw5H%2BD19GkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Costa Rica</a> &#8211; Gerardo Brenes Montoya<br />
Centro de Amigos por la Paz</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=KBiNE5rcIHtrhQbtg795YkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Chile</a> &#8211; Alicia Lira Matus<br />
Observadores por el Cierre de la Escuela de las Américas</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=DGDL7Xmi2TUI0DCnOQOjQ0kvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Chile</a> &#8211; Pablo Ruiz<br />
Journalist, SOA Watch Latin America Communications Coordinator</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=k5sMtj3O0z5pREAGxygklUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Ecuador</a> &#8211; Luis Ángel Saavedra<br />
INREDH Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=PsbpD7ElkqxMkYzPb48p7EkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">El Salvador</a> &#8211; Cristy Ayala<br />
Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad &#8211; CIS</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=rZ0WLzK21r5%2BgKwMoqBaXkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Guatemala</a> &#8211; Wendy Méndez<br />
Colectivo HIJOS</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=QOoA4pC5j3va4nfH5hcDkEkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Haití</a> &#8211; Jerome Paul Eddy Lacoste<br />
Director del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Ciencias Humanas</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=UQo2gySA0V3jdcMnIHATXUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Honduras</a> &#8211; Ninoska Benítez<br />
Comité de Familiares Detenidos y Desaparecidos en Honduras COFADEH</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=KfAPXwqX4SO9s%2FaB8WwKXkkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Honduras</a> &#8211; Alejandro Ramirez<br />
SOA Watch Latin America Office Summer intern</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=6fXpbjf2kxNh1DqOYKOm80kvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Honduras</a> &#8211; Jimena Paz<br />
SOAW Latin America Office Summer intern</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=P0zkYVjipAd7wGqty7td2EkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Republica Dominicana</a> &#8211; Rev. Julio Acosta<br />
Sacerdote Diocesano</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=Oyn1xiZ3wRbyftnHxNtNPUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">México</a> &#8211; David Barrios<br />
Observatorio Latinoamericano de Geopolítica de la UNAM.</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=GF6n08dZpBxw5bGntzKsP0kvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Nicaragua</a> &#8211; William Rodríguez<br />
Movimiento Social Nicaragüense &#8220;Otro Mundo&#8230; es Posible&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=sDVIQCsudoOxuxP0im2GfUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Paraguay</a>- Vidal Acevedo<br />
Servicio Paz y Justicia-Paraguay (Serpaj-Paraguay)</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=5dPk3Jworps4Vnnu063%2BekkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Perú</a> &#8211; Guillermo Burneo<br />
Mesa por la Paz, la Desmilitarización y Solidaridad con los Pueblos</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=SBhoa9ONes%2FcE64%2BPLMUEUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Uruguay</a> &#8211; Efraín Olivera Lerena<br />
Servicio Paz y Justicia en América Latina (Serpaj-AL)</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=6T6VgyAPVzI8uEm%2BguOjiUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Venezuela</a> &#8211; Eugenia Jenny Russián Soleé<br />
Fundación Latinoamericana Por Los Derechos Humanos y El Desarrollo Social (FUNDALATIN)</p>
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Latin America Coordinator SOA Watch</p>
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Encuentro Planning team/SOA Watch Activist, Long Island, NY</p>
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SOA Watch Council, San Francisco, CA</p>
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=dgMitAW7zgk4dBpNhLCwxUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Fellowship of Reconciliation</a> (FOR). Oakland, CA</p>
<p><a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=vKIe8Rlctrh2nHCdidji8EkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">United States</a> &#8211; Kent Spriggs<br />
SOA Watch activist, Florida</p>
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Director Marin Task Force on the Americas, Marin Co, CA</p>
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SOA Watch activist, Seattle, WA</p>
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SOA Watch activist, San Francisco, CA</p>
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SOA Watch activist, Maine</p>
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SOA Watch activist, Ohio</p>
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SOA Watch activist, New York</p>
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=3WPv%2FtUe4Xh6ju7xURaiGUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">Christian Peacemaking Teams</a></p>
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<a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=DGDL7Xmi2TUKQg4MvtHlOUkvJHyk3Z4e" target="_blank">8th Day Center</a>, Chicago, IL</p>
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SOA Watch actvist, Long Island, NY</p>
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SOA Watch Latin America Office summer intern</p>
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SOA Watch Latin America Office summer intern</p>
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		<title>OLIVER STONE RESPONDS TO ATTACK FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES’ LARRY ROHTER</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original here. Posted by: Beth Portello on 06-27-2010 &#8211; 11:57 pm The following letter was sent to The New York Times: Larry Rohter attacks our film, “South of the Border,” for “mistakes, misstatements and missing details.”  But a close examination of the details reveals that the mistakes, misstatements, and missing details are his own, and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Posted by: <strong>Beth Portello</strong> on 06-27-2010 &#8211; 11:57 pm</p>
<h2>The following letter was sent to <em>The New York Time</em>s:</h2>
<p><a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','www.nytimes.com']);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/movies/26stone.html">Larry  Rohter attacks</a> our film, “South of the Border,” for “mistakes,  misstatements and missing details.”  But a close examination of the  details reveals that the mistakes, misstatements, and missing details  are his own, and that the film is factually accurate. We will document  this for each one of his attacks. We then show that there is evidence of  animus and conflict of interest, in his attempt to discredit the film.  Finally, we ask that you consider the many factual errors in Rohter’s  attacks, outlined below, and the pervasive evidence of animus and  conflict of interest in his attempt to discredit the film; and we ask  that <em>The New York Times</em> publish a full correction for these  numerous mistakes.</p>
<p>1) Accusing the film of “misinformation,” Rohter writes that “A  flight from Caracas to La Paz, Bolivia, flies mostly over the Amazon,  not the Andes. . .” But the narration does not say that the flight is  “mostly” over the Andes, just that it flies over the Andes, which is  true. (Source: Google Earth).</p>
<p>2) Also in the category of “misinformation,” Rohter writes “the  United States does not ‘import more oil from Venezuela than any other <a title="More articles about Organization of Petroleum Exporting  Countries (OPEC)" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','topics.nytimes.com']);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/organization_of_petroleum_exporting_countries/index.html?inline=nyt-org">OPEC</a> nation,’ a distinction that has belonged to Saudi Arabia during the  period 2004-10.”</p>
<p>The quote cited by Rohter here was spoken in the film by an oil  industry analyst, Phil Flynn, who appears for about 30 seconds in a clip  from U.S. broadcast TV.  It turns out that Rohter is mistaken, and  Flynn is correct.  Flynn is speaking in April 2002 (which is clear in  the film), so it is wrong for Rohter to cite data from 2004-2010. If we  look at data from 1997-2001, which is the relevant data for Flynn’s  comment, Flynn is correct. Venezuela leads all OPEC countries, including  Saudi Arabia, for oil imports in the U.S. over this period. (Source:   US Energy Information Agency for Venezuela <a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','www.eia.gov']);" href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=MTTIMUSVE2&amp;f=A">http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=MTTIMUSVE2&amp;f=A</a> and Saudi Arabia  <a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','www.eia.gov']);" href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=MTTIMUSSA2&amp;f=A">http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=MTTIMUSSA2&amp;f=A</a> )</p>
<p>3)  Rohter tries to discredit the film’s very brief description of  the 1998 Venezuelan presidential race:</p>
<p>“As “South of the Border” portrays it, Mr. Chávez’s main opponent in  his initial run for president in 1998 was “a 6-foot-1-inch blond former  Miss Universe” named Irene Sáez, and thus “the contest becomes known as  the Beauty and the Beast” election.</p>
<p>But Mr. Chávez’s main opponent then was not Ms. Sáez, who finished  third, with less than 3 percent of the vote. It was Henrique Salas  Romer, a bland former state governor who won 40 percent of the vote.”</p>
<p>Rohter’s criticism is misleading. The description of the presidential  race in the film, cited by Rohter, is from Bart Jones, who was covering  Venezuela for the Associated Press from Caracas at the time. The  description is accurate, despite the final results. For most of the  race, which began in 1997, Irene Sáez was indeed Chavez’s main opponent,  and the contest was reported as “Beauty and the Beast.” In the six  months before the election, she began to fade and Salas Romer picked up  support; his 40 percent showing was largely the result of a late  decision of both COPEI and AD (the two biggest political parties in  Venezuela at the time, who had ruled the country for four decades) to  throw their support behind him. (See, for example, this 2008 article  from BBC, which describes the race as in the film, and does not even  mention Salas Romer: <a onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','news.bbc.co.uk']);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7767417.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7767417.stm</a> )</p>
<p>Rohter’s description makes it seem like Saéz was a minor candidate,  which is absurd.</p>
<p>4)  Rohter tries to frame the film’s treatment of the 2002 coup in  Venezuela as a “conspiracy theory.”  He writes:</p>
<p>“ Like Mr. Stone’s take on the Kennedy assassination, this section of  “South of the Border” hinges on the identity of a sniper or snipers who  may or may not have been part of a larger conspiracy.”</p>
<p>This description of the film is completely false. The film makes no  statement on the identity of the snipers nor does it present any theory  of a “larger conspiracy” with any snipers. Rather, the film makes two  points about the coup:  (1) That the Venezuelan media (and this was  repeated by U.S. and other international media) manipulated film footage  to make it look as if a group of Chavez supporters with guns had shot  the 19 people killed on the day of the coup.  This manipulation of the  film footage is demonstrated very clearly in the film, and therefore  does not “ [rely] heavily on the account of Gregory Wilpert” as Rohter  also falsely alleges. The footage speaks for itself.  (2) The United  States government was involved in the coup (see <a href="http://southoftheborderdoc.com/2002-venezuela-coup/">http://southoftheborderdoc.com/2002-venezuela-coup/</a> and below).</p>
<p>Ironically, it is Rohter that relies on conspiracy theories, citing <a href="https://nacla.org/node/5944">one dubious account</a> in  particular that he argues we should have included in the film.</p>
<p>5) Rohter accuses us of “bend[ing] facts and omit[ting] information”  on Argentina, for allowing “Mr. Kirchner and his successor — and wife — <a title="More articles about Cristina Fernández de Kirchner." onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','topics.nytimes.com']);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/cristina_fernandez_de_kirchner/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Cristina  Fernández de Kirchner</a> to claim that “we began a different policy  than before.”</p>
<p>“In reality, Mr. Kirchner’s presidential predecessor, <a title="More  articles about Eduardo Duhalde." onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','topics.nytimes.com']);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/eduardo_duhalde/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Eduardo  Duhalde</a>, and Mr. Duhalde’s finance minister, <a title="More  articles about Roberto Lavagna." onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','topics.nytimes.com']);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/roberto_lavagna/index.html?8qa&amp;inline=nyt-per">Roberto  Lavagna</a>, were the architects of that policy shift and the  subsequent economic recovery, which began while Mr. Kirchner was still  the obscure governor of a small province in Patagonia.”</p>
<p>This criticism is somewhat obscure and perhaps ridiculous. The  Kirchners were in the presidency for five out of the six years of  Argentina’s remarkable economic recovery, in which the economy grew by  63 percent. Some of the policies that allowed for that recovery began in  2002, and others began in 2003, and even later. What exactly are the  “bent facts” and “omitted information” here?</p>
<p>6) Rohter tries to make an issue out of the fact that the logo of  Human Rights Watch appears for a couple of seconds on the screen, during  a discussion of Washington’s double standards on human rights. The film  doesn’t say or imply anything about HRW. Most importantly, in his  interview with Rohter, HRW’s Americas director José Miguel Vivanco backs  up exactly what the film does say, that there is a double standard in  the U.S. that focuses on allegations of human rights abuses in Venezuela  while ignoring or downplaying far graver, far more numerous, and better  substantiated allegations about human rights abuses in Colombia: “It’s  true that many of Chávez’s fiercest critics in Washington have turned a  blind eye to Colombia’s appalling human rights record,” says Vivanco.</p>
<p>7) Rohter attacks co-writer Tariq Ali for saying that “The government  [of Bolivia] decided to sell the water supply of Cochabamba to <a title="More articles about the Bechtel Group" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','topics.nytimes.com']);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/bechtel_group/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Bechtel</a>,  a U.S. corporation.” Rohter writes: “In reality, the government did not  sell the water supply: it granted a consortium that included Bechtel a  40-year management concession . . .”</p>
<p>Rohter is really reaching here. “Selling the water supply” to private  interests is a fair  description of what happened here, about as good  for practical purposes as “granting a 40-year management concession.”  The companies got control over the city’s water supply and the revenue  that can be gained from selling it.</p>
<p><strong>Rohter’s animus and conflict of interest</strong>:  We gave  Rohter an enormous amount of factual information to back up the main  points of the film. He not only ignored the main points of the film, but  in the quotes he selected for the article, he picked only quotes that  were not fact related that could be used to illustrate what he  considered the director’s and co-author’s bias. This is not ethical  journalism; in fact it is questionable whether it is journalism at all.</p>
<p>For example, Rohter was presented with detailed and documentary  evidence of the United States’ involvement in the 2002 coup. (see <a href="http://southoftheborderdoc.com/2002-venezuela-coup">http://southoftheborderdoc.com/2002-venezuela-coup</a>)  This was a major point in the film, and was backed up in the film by  testimony from then <em>Washington Post</em> foreign editor Scott  Wilson, who covered the coup from Caracas.  In our conversations with  Rohter, he simply dismissed all of this evidence out of hand, and  nothing about it appears in the article.</p>
<p>Rohter should have disclosed his own conflict of interest in this  review. The film criticizes the <em>New York Times</em> for its  editorial board’s endorsement of the military coup of April 11, 2002  against the democratically elected government of Venezuela, which was  embarrassing to the <em>Times</em>. Moreover, Rohter himself wrote an  article on April 12 that went even further than the <em>Times</em>’  endorsement of the coup:</p>
<p>“Neither the overthrow of Mr. Chavez, a former army colonel, nor of  Mr. Mahuad two years ago can be classified as a conventional Latin  American military coup. The armed forces did not actually take power on  Thursday. It was the ousted president’s supporters who appear to have  been responsible for deaths that numbered barely 12 rather than hundreds  or thousands, and political rights and guarantees were restored rather  than suspended.” – Larry Rohter, <em>New York Times</em>, April 12, 2002</p>
<p>These allegations that the coup was not a coup – not only by Rohter —  prompted a rebuttal by Rohter’s colleague at the <em>New York Times</em>,  Tim Weiner, who wrote a <em>Sunday Week in Review</em> piece two days  later entitled “A Coup By Any Other Name.” (<em>New York Times</em>,  April 14, 2002)</p>
<p>Unlike the <em>NYT</em> editorial board, which issued a grudging  retraction of their pro-coup stance a few days later (included in our  film), Rohter seems to have clung to the right-wing fantasies about the  coup. It is not surprising that someone who supports the military  overthrow of a democratically elected government would not like a  documentary like this one, which celebrates the triumphs of electoral  democracy in South America over the last decade.</p>
<p>But he should have at least informed his readers that <em>the New  York Times</em>’ was under fire in this documentary, and also about his  own reporting: in 1999 and 2000 he covered Venezuela for the Times,  writing numerous anti-Chavez news reports. The media’s biased and  distorted reporting on Latin America is a major theme of the  documentary, one which Rohter also conveniently ignores in is 1665-word  attempt to discredit the film.</p>
<p>We spent hours with Rohter over the course of two days and gave him  all the information he asked for, even though his hostility was clear  from the outset. But he was determined to present his narrative of  intrepid reporter exposing sloppy filmmaking. The result is a very  dishonest attempt to discredit the film by portraying it as factually  inaccurate — using false and misleading statements, out-of-context,  selective quotations from interviews with the director and writers, and <em>ad  hominem</em> attacks. The <em>Times</em> should apologize for having  published it.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong>Oliver Stone</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mark Weisbrot</strong></p>
<p><strong>Tariq Ali</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Telesur.net El terrorista de nacionalidad salvadoreña, Francisco Chávez Abarca, confesó haber sido contratado por el prófugo Luis Posada Carriles para realizar actos desestabilizadores en Venezuela, y reveló que su enlace fue el guatelmateco, Daniel Barrundia, relacionado con la Fundación Contrarevolucionaria Cubano-Americana, ubicada en la ciudad de Miami, al sureste de Estados Unidos. Al ser [...]]]></description>
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<p>El terrorista de nacionalidad salvadoreña, Francisco Chávez Abarca, confesó haber sido contratado por el prófugo Luis Posada Carriles para realizar actos desestabilizadores en Venezuela, y reveló que su enlace fue el guatelmateco, Daniel Barrundia, relacionado con la Fundación Contrarevolucionaria Cubano-Americana, ubicada en la ciudad de Miami, al sureste de Estados Unidos.</p>
<p>Al ser interrogado sobre quién estaba dirigiendo sus movimientos en las operaciones, Chávez Abarca contestó &#8220;Luis Posada Carriles&#8221;, posteriormente, un funcionario venezolano le preguntó sobre el paradero de este terrorista antirrevolucionario, a lo que el detenido contestó: &#8220;no sé, porque yo tengo desde el 97 de no hablar con él&#8221;, además indicó que las órdenes las seguía &#8220;por medio de Daniel (Barrundia)&#8221;.</p>
<p>Asimismo, Chávez Abarca confesó que recibía instrucciones en clave a través de un correo electrónico donde mencionaba el restaurant &#8220;El Caney del Chivo&#8221; ubicado cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía, específicamente en la localidad de Catia la Mar (norte de Caracas) donde se encontraría con tres personas, entre ellos dos venezolanos para iniciar con el plan desestabilizador.</p>
<p>Uno de los correos electrónicos encontrado en la cuenta de Chávez Abarca dice: &#8220;que la muchachita traiga fotos de permisos de conducir para que conozca la universidad rapidito&#8221;- refiriéndose esto a Venezuela- &#8220;que acá la cosa está bien difícil&#8221;, la idea era planificar el caos.</p>
<p>Según el terrorista, en esa reunión se buscaba planificar disturbios y evaluar los sitios donde se pudieran iniciar.</p>
<p>&#8220;A usted le pueden decir &#8216;mire necesito esto&#8217;, equis, y usted dice&#8230; por eso es que decía allí (en el correo) para que venga a estudiar, para que venga a conocer, a estudiar en la universidad que está bien arrechito para que ellos vieran si lo que ellos me pedían se podía hacer o no&#8221;, declaró en Maiquetía Abarca en el momento que fue detenido.</p>
<p>Entre las acciones que venía a hacer Chávez Abarca para truncar las venideras elecciones parlamentarias que se realizarán en septiembre de este año, estaban &#8220;quemas llantas, hacer disturbios de la calle y atacar a un partido político&#8221;.</p>
<p>La idea según el detenido, era poner a pelear a movimientos de la revolución a través de las &#8220;conveniencias diferentes&#8221; que tienen.</p>
<p>El terrorista afirmó que los que estaban contratando estas acciones en contra del Gobierno venezolano estaban dispuestos a realizar lo que fuera necesario para lograr su cometido.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuando me dijo del trabajo me dijo que había que bajar aquí en Venezuela, para hablar con ellos, pero que había plata -¿cuánta plata? interrogó el funcionario-&#8221; a lo que respondió Chávez Abarca: &#8220;yo ponía el precio&#8221;.</p>
<p>Se presume que en este nuevo atentado contra el Gobierno del presidente Hugo Chávez están vinculados militares disidentes que participaron en las protestas realizadas en la plaza Francia de Altamira, al este de Caracas donde fallecieron varios ciudadanos en el año 2002.</p>
<p>De igual forma se vinculan con la operación a civiles que participaron en el golpe de Estado contra el presidente Chávez el 11 de abril de 2002.</p>
<p>El salvadoreño fue escoltado este miércoles por agentes del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia (Sebin) hacia el avión que lo llevará a Cuba, país que lo solicitó por varios atentados terroristas en esa nación.</p>
<p>Minutos antes, el detenido confesó, ante las cámaras de teleSUR, que fue enviado a Venezuela para realizar acciones de conspiración y que intentó entrar al país con pasaporte falso.</p>
<p>&#8220;Estábamos listos para poder hacer ciertas acciones de conspiración&#8221; declaró a su salida de la sede del Sebin donde estuvo recluido desde el viernes cuando fue capturado, y confirmó que su entrada a Venezuela la realizó &#8220;de manera fraudulenta con pasaporte falso&#8221;.</p>
<p>El terrorista participó de la mano de Posada Carriles en los atentados contra sitios turísticos en La Habana en 1997, en uno de los cuales perdió la vida el joven italiano Fabio Di Celmo.</p>
<p>El pasado 15 de marzo un tribunal estadounidense suspendió una vez más el juicio que se le sigue a Posada Carriles, suelto en Estados Unidos, y fue aplazado por tiempo indefinido.</p>
<p>Las leyes internacionales y acuerdos de extradición como por la Convención de Montreal de Actos Ilícitos contra la Aviación Civil y la Protección de Pasajeros, así como por la Convención Internacional contra Actos Terroristas Cometidos con el Uso de Bombas, obligan al Gobierno estadounidense a responder a las solicitudes venezolanas de enviar a Posada Carriles a este país para que sea enjuiciado.</p>
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		<title>Protest in SF Against Netanyahu&#8217;s Visit.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Hackwell A couple hundred protestors demonstrated in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco demanding a total end of the siege of Gaza and the end of all U.S. aid to Israel. As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s limousine drove up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, he was confronted by demonstrators demanding [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>by Bill Hackwell</strong></em></p>
<p>A couple hundred protestors demonstrated in front of the Israeli  Consulate in San Francisco demanding a total end of the siege of Gaza  and the end of all U.S. aid to Israel.</p>
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<p>As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s limousine drove up Pennsylvania  Avenue to the White House, he was confronted by demonstrators demanding  “Let Gaza Live – Free Palestine!” Refusing Secret Service demands to  leave Pennsylvania Avenue and move out of sight, protestors held their  ground.</p>
<p>The demonstrations started at 10 a.m. this morning in  front of the White House in Washington, D.C., and continued throughout  the day in other U.S. cities in response to the meeting between  Netanyahu and President Obama.</p>
<p>Demonstrators demanded a total  end of the siege of Gaza and the end to all U.S. aid to Israel. Israel  receives about $15 million each day from the United States, and is the  largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid.</p>
<p>Actions took place in  San Francisco, Los Angeles, Syracuse, N.Y. and Charlotte, N.C.</p>
<p>There is a growing chorus of international outrage against the blockade  of Gaza, which has prevented the Palestinian people from rebuilding  their homes and lives following Israel’s murderous bombing war that took  the lives of 1,400 Palestinians and wounded thousands of others in  December 2008-January 2009.</p>
<p>“At the White House today,  President Obama patted Netanyahu on the back for his last minute  announcement that certain consumer goods might be let into Gaza. This  was just a propaganda ploy to continue rather than end the blockade.  Israel still bans all items that are needed for building and  reconstruction. Israel’s policy of collective punishment against a whole  people constitutes a crime against humanity. We are demanding the  cessation of all U.S. aid to Israel,” said the ANSWER Coalition in a  statement delivered at the White House protest today.</p>
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		<title>8 de Julio: Acción frente al consulado Peruano!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 8th: Action in front of the Peruvian consulate!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>! Basta ya!.</strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Ciudadanos  de Segunda Categoría, MOCCIC y diversos colectivos convocan  al Plantón- Acto de  repudio.</p>
<p><strong>La razón</strong>: la orden del gobierno de expulsar del país Paul McAuley  &#8211; sacerdote inglés y defensor de la ecología &#8211; <strong>por participar en  protestas a favor  del medio ambiente</strong> en la Amazonía. Deportan a  quienes no piensan como el Gobierno, quienes denuncian la corrupción de  los grandes intereses  económicos ; y frente a la impunidad que el  oficialismo pomueve ante la contaminación de los ríos. Esta  acción se da en coordinación con las marchas y plantones a realizarse en  la ciudad de Lima, por las expulsion del pais del Hermano Mc Auley por  parte del gobierno. Su crimen, estar del lado del pueblo amazonico y  denunciar los niveles de contaminacion de los rios del Amazonas, y la  destruccion de sus pueblos.<br />
<strong>Cuándo y dónde es la nota? 8 de Julio a las </strong>10 de la maniana  frente al edificio donde se encuentra el  Consulado  Peruano 870 Market  St. Suite 1067 San Francisco.<br />
<strong>Qué más hay?</strong> Además de harta bulla y desplazamiento, habrá muro  de la Verguenza,  batukada del repudio, y la foto de la corrupción: Las  Ratas.<br />
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<p><strong>Cómo me apunto</strong>? No preguntes tanto  y sal a la  calle!. Lleva  pancartas, polos, banderolas, ! vuvuzelas!, a la novia y  al novio del  mundial, no sé, pero todo ayuda. etc.El punto es : no  quedarse viendo  cómo la impunidad se naturaliza en nuestra cara.</p>
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<p><strong>Copia, piratea, difunde y repudia!</strong></p>
<p><strong>BASTA YA!, aunque breve  y sencilla, guarda la potencialidad de una frase que uno puede escuchar  y ver en las universidades, en los micros, en algunos medios de  comunicación independientes. Es un Basta Ya! a la corrupción de este  gobierno, a su rata &#8220;gorda&#8221; ( ultizar este tèrmino solo para entender la  idea, por favor) que mandonea desde Plaza de Armas ,que està detràs de  dos hechos claves que han despertado la indignación: el derrame de  petroleo y la intoxicación a los dos ríos que representan el otro Perù:  el sur y la selva; y estos hechos, con el silencio impune del Gobierno,  fueron acompañados con brutalidad represiva, que se manifiesta  &#8220;crudamente&#8221; con la deportación a un ciudadano extranjero, hermano  nuestro, que se se opone a la impunidad con la que se cubrió las  denuncias, y que advirtió, como miles de peruano/as, que detràs de esto  se esconden grandes intereses. Nosotros agregaríamos: corrupción que  gobierna y que pretende tratarnos como ciudadanos de segunda categoría.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Y hay que recordar que la venta del Gas es otro hecho corrupto que  ya està siendo denunciado.Y seguiremos en la campaña.<br />
Basta ya!<br />
Movilizate!  saca tu indignación a la calle! y frenemos tanto descaro corrupto,  represivo y entreguista!<br />
La corrupción roba, mata y remata ( y deporta)<br />
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