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Several Latino and Latin American student groups, including Concilio Latino, Fuerza Latina, Latinas Unidas and Harvard Colombian Society co-sponsored the event...
...course they are. But ever since the days when the council (and for that matter, The Crimson and, generally, the student body) was easily distracted by fawning over its favorite Maoist group or concerned about the plight of Colombian coffee-growers, there’s been a yearning in the council for a cool, calculated logic to guide its proceedings. Here enters a tricky argument that challenges that calculus through which the council has regained its credibility. Should the council ever make a conscious funding decision based on a magazine’s content? We might, of course, play...
...alarming fact you'll learn from songstress SHAKIRA'S new DVD documentary, Shakira Live and Off the Record, is that belly dancing causes tendinitis. Another is that she's chummy with Nobel-prizewinning novelist and fellow Colombian GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, who, in the film, visits Shakira backstage in Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps...
Aristide got the chimeres to back off over the weekend. But the hellish anarchy swallowing the capital is a vivid sign that whatever government follows Aristide's isn't likely to be any more democratic. When Philippe, 36, served as Cap Haitien's police chief in the late 1990s, Colombian cocaine shipments flowed virtually unobstructed through its port, according to Haitian and U.S. officials--one reason that Haiti is now the largest narcotics transshipment center in the Caribbean. Philippe's ragtag militia, motivated by a hatred for Aristide, numbers only a few hundred men wielding old automatic rifles. But they...
...that the U.S. gave to the Colombian army in the 1990s to combat drug trafficking are now in the hands of terrorists engaged in human-rights abuses...