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...anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services, a firm that Harvard employs. The campaign focuses on securing workers their legal right to unionize without fear of reprisal. A national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, Camilo A. Romero, translated a speech delivered by Gerrardo Cajamarca, a former Coke employee in Colombia who now works for the Colombian food and beverages workers union Sinal Trainal. Cajamarca charged that Coke-funded paramilitaries had assassinated eight Colomobian unionizers. Through Romero, Cajamarca said, “this is an effort to sew fear, sew terror in the hearts of these workers...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Activists SLAM Coke, Security Firm | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...under their own roofs. It is a complaint heard from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea: national governments make deals, and the locals get shortchanged. As a result, local protests are stalling at least 10 mining-investment projects in Peru that are worth $1.4 billion. In the northern town of Cajamarca, whose decade-old Yanacocha gold mine is the world's second largest, residents are loudly demonstrating against expansion plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha mined 2.3 million oz. of gold last year and earned $700 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining: Not Golden | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...weighed 140 Ibs. and came from Latin America. But he was Peruvian, born on Christmas Day, 1925, in the ancient Inca town of Cajamarca, which makes him 48, not 38, this year. His father was not an academic, but a goldsmith and watchmaker named Cesar Arana Burungaray. His mother, Susana Castaneda Navoa, died not when Carlos was six, but when he was 24. Her son spent three years in the local high school in Cajamarca and then moved with his family to Lima in 1948, where he graduated from the Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Peru, as in nine other Latin American countries, capital punishment has long been outlawed. The last Peruvian to suffer the death penalty was a bandit executed by a firing squad in Cajamarca 42 years ago. Last week the Peruvian military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Dictator's Deterrent | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Inca tomb near Cajamarca, Peru, Francisco Loaysa, of Lima, found an elaborate " quipu," or knotted and decorated cord 16 yards long, used by the Incas as a calculating device for their decimal arithmetic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Week's Digging | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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