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...continent that seems to present Washington with a new leftist, anti-American government practically every few months, Colombia has become a rare dependable ally. And as the war-torn country goes to the polls Sunday, Colombians seem content to stay right where they are. According to most polls, voters are likely to hand conservative President Alvaro Uribe a new mandate to continue his security-minded policies that have brought some measure of stability...
...Under Uribe, many Colombians feel safer today than they have in decades. Once one of the most violent countries in the world, plagued by a four-decade-old civil war pitting leftist rebels against government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups, Colombia has seen the number of kidnappings and murders plunge, as the economy has surged...
Following a vocal student campaign against Coke’s labor practices in Colombia and India, Michigan’s Dispute Review Board (DRB) suspended the use of Coke products on Dec. 29, writing that it would not extend any expired contracts. However, the DRB letter said Michigan would resume business with Coke if the company sufficiently met the university’s demands for an independent, third-party investigation into the allegations...
...allegations against Coke and included links to outside sources, led to an immediate response by Joshua M. Reilly ’08 and Mark A. Shepard ’08 on Red Ivy, the blog for the Harvard Republican Club. The post noted that official inquiries in Colombia have cleared Coke on human rights charges, and that the company has cooperated with outside investigations into its labor practices.Reilly has also created Students for a Fair Hearing on Coke, a group that will help correct what he perceives to be factual errors in SLAM’s arguments.According to Reilly, Students...
...National Student Labor Week of Action. The hour-long protest was the first in SLAM’s semester-long “Right To Organize” campaign. In March, the group held a teach-in to inform students about alleged human rights abuses in Colombia and India by Coke. SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 said SLAM was waiting to protest until the administration responded to a letter SLAM sent them asking for a meeting to discuss the University’s exclusive contracts with Coke. Gould-Wartofsky said SLAM...