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...leaders all over campus, but they rarely come together to network or socialize,” said Bianca M. Caban ’09, the coordinator of the conference and president of Latinas Unidas. Keynote speaker Isabel Londoño, the coordinator of the Women Caucus of the Colombian Congress, said institutions of higher learning such as Harvard were key in bringing together members of the country’s disparate Latina community. “All these people have the same identity but experience it in a different way,” she said, speaking of Latinas...
...votes for the controversial trade deal to pass. "It's not fair to the American people and it's not fair to the people of Colombia to make a decision [on the FTA] without coming here," the former CEO of Kellogg said as the van sped through the Colombian countryside. Most visiting lawmakers have remained noncommittal about their positions on the Colombia FTA, and Gutierrez says he does not press them to take a stand. But, he says, there's a "definite shift in attitude" among the lawmakers who come here...
What was unclear then is now manifest. House Democrats reject even bringing the Colombia trade deal up for a vote until they see "significant progress" by the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to stop murders of labor unionists and bring their killers to justice...
Gutierrez, like Colombian officials who want to see the trade deal come into force as soon as possible, seems frustrated by those arguments. He grumbles that people who take that view do not recognize the "tremendous progress" that Colombia has made on those fronts. Union member killings are down to 30 so far this year from a peak in 1996 of 275 murders. About 98% of those cases remain unsolved. However, special prosecutors have been now trained to investigate labor union crimes and three judges have been detached from their regular duties to concentrate solely on cases of violence against...
...precisely the threat of non-passage of the trade agreement that has led to the improvement on that investigative front, say Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano Sanin, director of the Escuela Nacional Sindical, a labor rights group that tracks violence against Colombia's labor movement. "All of a sudden, with this external pressure, impunity in union cases has become a priority because it is a condition for approval...