Wars for Drug Turf Threaten Existence of Colombia’s Indians

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/world/americas/22colombia.html

Members of many indigenous groups have been displaced by armed men seeking control of routes and growing regions coveted in the drug trade.

New relations with Latin America

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090412/pl_nm/us_obama_americas

Hillary Clinton and the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico

Hillary Clinton and the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico

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Free Film Series: ‘Everyone Their Grain of Sand’

When:

Wednesday, April 8th 7pm-9pm

Where:

Uris Auditorium, Uris Hall, Cornell University

Discussant: Alicia Swords, Sociology Ithaca College

Obama to loosen Cuba restrictions

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/world/americas/05cuba.html

A Discussion with Guadalupe Gamboa

Mon, April 6, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
165 McGraw Hall Cornell Campus

The Cornell Farmworker Program Presents: Challenges Facing Immigrant Farmworkers: A Discussion with Guadalupe Gamboa

This event is cosponsored by CUSLAR and many other organizations. Guadalupe Gamboa is the Program officer for Workers Rights at Oxfam America and an immigration attorney. Prior to joining Oxfam, he served as Washington State Regional Director of the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO. After growing up working in the fields with his family in Washington, in 1968, he became the first Chicano to be admitted to the University of Washington Law School. For more than forty years, Mr. Gamboa has fought for the rights of farm workers throughout the country. In 1995, Mr Gamboa was involved in the first agricultural union election in which farm workers won a collective bargaining agreement with the largest wine grape grower in the Pacific Northwest. His recent work with Oxfam America has focuses on organizing and activism with meatpacking workers.

In Drug War, Mexico Fights Cartel and Itself

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/americas/30mexico.html

NYT Article: Amid Abuse in Brazil, Abortion Debate Flares

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html

Discussion with film director Jorge Daniel

ON Thursday, March 26th, film director Jorge Daniel (“The Kids”) will speak in Uris 153@ Cornell at 12:15 pm.

His talk is entitled “US-Columbia foreign policy and human rights in Columbia.”

**Jorge Daniel’s visit is being co-sponsered by CUSLAR, LASP (Latin American Studies Program @ Cornell) and Amnesty International group #73, Ithaca.**

Security: Progress in Colombia?

Security: Progress in Colombia?

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