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...peril, and many disappeared,” Moreno said. “Yet there is an opportunity today for growth and innovation, and an even bigger opportunity to leverage all of the economic opportunities in Latin America to deal with economic issues.” Moreno, the former Colombian ambassador to the United States, mentioned cell phones as one example of private sector innovation improving life for hundreds of millions of Latin Americans. According to Moreno, telephone companies have successfully used a prepaid, web-based model to increase the number of subscribers from 10 million in 2002, to over...
Penn resigned his spot as chief campaign strategist on Sunday after revelations that he had advised the Colombian government on a trade treaty that his long-time client opposed. Early the next week, Penn was replaced by another former Crimson writer and prominent pollster, Geoffrey D. Garin ’75, who along with communications director Howard Wolfson will set the message of the faltering Clinton campaign...
...Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates, a public opinion polling company he started while at Harvard. After helping both Bill and Hillary Clinton in their past campaigns, he served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign until his company’s work with the Colombian government became known...
...clients have been drug companies, a tuna industry group, a tobacco firm and the controversial military contractor Blackwater USA. What finally forced Penn's demotion was a Wall Street Journal report last Friday that, as part of a contract Burson-Marsteller had entered into, he had met with the Colombian ambassador to discuss promoting a free-trade agreement with that country - even as Clinton was denouncing the deal, which is vehemently opposed by many of the unions that she is counting on to support her in the make-or-break Pennsylvania primary on April 22. The news caught the rest...
...Obama campaign was quick to pounce. "Even though Senator Clinton said she'd distance herself from her chief strategist for meeting with the Colombian government, we later found out that he's still very much part of her strategy team," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said. And there are some on Clinton's own team who say that Penn's continued presence there is not a good idea. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, her most high-profile supporter in the state, told USA Today that Penn "was just dead wrong" when he accepted the Colombian government business. Asked whether Clinton should sever...