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Executive Vice President Katherine N. Lapp, who oversees the University’s capital planning functions, described yesterday’s meeting as “very productive” in an e-mailed statement...
...Ravi N. Mulani ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, is an applied mathematics concentrator in Pforzheimer House...
...response to the escalating violence, the government dispatched an extra 900 police officers to Medellín last year, according to police, and an additional 1,300 are expected. While many residents of hard-hit neighborhoods welcome them, others complain that police are often at the service of the drug gangs. Eduardo says he often tells police not to patrol where his men are planning "an operation." At other times, Eduardo claims, police have stepped out of uniform, put on face masks and carried out killings using weapons given to them by criminal bands. "There's a lot of police...
...members and friends of enemies in order to win their battles. "This war touches everyone," he says. As a result of the drug wars, the number of people forced to leave their homes has surged, says Aristizábal. Last year, 2,650 displaced people registered with Medellín's ombudsman's office. (See pictures of Mexico City's police fighting crime...
...fight crime in Medellín, President Álvaro Uribe made a controversial proposal last month to pay 1,000 students $50 per month to serve as informants by sharing intelligence with authorities. Medellín's mayor and others have criticized the strategy, fearing it will turn students into targets of the conflict. Eduardo says the criminal underworld will be forced to respond by hiring people to spy on the student informants. "We'll have to involve a new bunch of people in this war," he says...