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From: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: (news clip) PERU's TOP LABOR LEADER GUNNED DOWN IN LIMA
Date: 21 Dec 1992 06:20:27 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Reply-To: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
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	     PERU's TOP LABOR LEADER GUNNED DOWN IN LIMA

LIMA, Peru -- Gunmen killed the leader of Peru's largest labor
movement and seriously wounded his 16-year-old son in a Lima
shantytown Friday, police said.  It was not clear who carried out the
killing.  Pedro Huilca, a fierce government critic, was general
secretary of the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers, a
Communist-led federation with 700,000 members.  The confederation led
a march in Lima on Thursday to protest the government's privatization
program and decrees that will make it easier to fire workers.


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From: rravelo@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo)
Subject: Re: Colombia Newsbriefs 12/9 ed-lp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:56:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.193434.12311@sbcs.sunysb.edu> ldasilva@engws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Luis Dasilva Ruiz) writes:
>In response to some remarks I made regarding drug legalization,
>cmbr01@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>
>>As a Eurpopean living in Europe I have not heard of any move towards
>>legalisation of drugs here. Certain countries such as The Netherlands
>>have relaxed laws to allow personal use and both the UK and The Neths.
>>have pretty good drug user support systems (needle exchanges etc).
>>
>>I personally am for making the imposition of taxes upon drug sales and use.
>>Then people can go uot and work for the money to buy the drugs etc just as
>>many people do now for to buy alcohol etc.
>
>I think that in my original post I gave the impression that drugs
>were already being legalized in Europe. This is certainly wrong, and I
>apologize for the mistake. However, I decided to check my source
>(VenEconomy magazine) and in an article describing the last San Antonio
>summit, the author says that "drug legalization is an option
>that European countries are starting to consider" (sic) and compares

 Sometime ago I saw an article in a newspaper about drugs being legal in
 Zurich, there is a park there called "needle park" where drugs are/were legal
 to anyone. The problems was that not only the locals came there for
 drugs but many people around Europe came too. This created a big problem
 for the local police and the people administering the drug program.
 Also, instead of easing the problem of drug addition it increased it as
 more and more young people tried it and got hooked on drugs. 
 
 I believe Time magazine ran a similar article a few months ago.
 
--
Ray I. Ravelo                "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
Office of Academic Computing. Cubans who look around us in terror"
UC, Irvine.                 from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:39 PST
Subject: Brazil:Collor Trial Postponement
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Subject: Brazil:Collor Trial Postponement
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/22/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

Collor Tiral Postponed in Brazil

The Senate trial of Brazil's suspended president, Fernando Collor
de Mello, scheduled to take place on Dec. 22, was postponed until
Dec. 29. Collor said neither he nor his lawyers would appear at
the Dec. 22 hearing because the senate was being submitted to
"political pressures of all kinds at the moment in which they need
serenity appropriate to the role which the judges must carry out."
To gain time, Collor fired his lawyers, Jose Guilherme Villela and
Evaristo de Moraes Filho and now must be defended by a government
appointed lawyer. Because of this, according to Brazilian law,
Collor had the right to have a 10-day postponement of his trial.
(edlp 12/22/92 from AFP)
 

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: mathep@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Patrick Mathewson)
Subject: looking for Argentine last name...
Reply-To: mathep@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:47:20 GMT

I need help searching for someone in Buenos Aires.  I know only the first five initials of her maiden name, which is BARBO.  If anyone from Argentina could tell me of any last names that begin with those letters it would be greatly appreciated.

                   Patrick Mathewson
                  
my e-mail address is mathep@rpi.edu
From: julio@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Julio Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: What Now for Salvadoran Army (1 of
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:01:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


   Edelmiro writes
>
>Plenty of speculation could be said about what will become of the heroic
>armed forces of El Salvador,
>
>Edelmiro

     If by "heroic armed forces" you mean an Army willing to
    assassinate priests, peasants, women and children then
    I agree,  those armed forces are at the forefront of
    your "heroism".

Julio

















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From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:38 PST
Subject: Ortega Urges Disarming Freelancers/
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Subject: Ortega Urges Disarming Freelancers/ed-lp
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from el diario/La Prensa 12/23/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


General Ortega Calls for Neutralizing of Armed Groups in Nicaragua

General Humberto Ortega, head of the Nicarguan Army, announced on
Dec. 22 that the army is preparing to "neutralize" former contras
and Sandinistas who are still armed or who have taken up weapons
again, following the killing of a peasant family which was
presumed to have been done by a rearmed group. 

According to official sources there are still about 400 armed
people who live in as criminals in the countryside, especially in
the northern part of the country. Ortega met with Cardinal Obando
y Bravo and with national agricultural business people to discuss
their needs in terms of the army's operations. Ortega told the
press that 1993 was vital for the country's interests and called
for a national concertation. He also asked for greater
consciousness toward the most economically desperate and seriously
affected sectors of the society, and asked President Chamorro to
develop programs for the peasanst, many of whom have joined the
rearmed groups. (edlp 12/23/92 from AFP)
 

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: kamine@is.rice.edu (Jorge Hershel Kamine)
Subject: Re: Cuban Rights Advocate Beaten and Detaine
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:47:28 GMT

In article <20496@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes:
>casinos where the rich and famous can go dip in private beaches. I'm sure the 
>caravaners who were greeted by Castro had a wonderful time down there, knowing>that they would never have to talk about the human rights violations of the 
>regime, since any discussion of such would quickly be diverted to issues such 
>as pre-natal care in Cuba, etc.
>
>Edelmiro
My understanding of the caravan's operation was that it simply
loaded the supplies on to a Cuban ship docked in Mexico.  This
was the basis for my concern that the supplies would be
selectively distributed as I mentioned in a previous post.
In fact, didn't a sailor from the ship that was to take the
supplies to Cuba jump overboard to try and defect?

-- 
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*       Jorge Kamine Arreola      * "An eye for an eye leaves two men blind."  
*       email: kamine@is.rice.edu *  -Edward James Olmos   
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Subject: Re: Mafalda (para el que escribio en anglo)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:46:31 GMT

Fellow ccadeff@sadeff.vislab.olemiss.edu (Sergio Adeff) wrote: 
>              The fact is that each of the Latinamerican countries is different
>in its own way and also all share much in common, as much as to not being able
>to include the other American countries (USA & Canada.)

Just to note that Mafalda is also popular in French Canada (Quebec).
From: psilva@dcc.uchile.cl (SILVA OSORIO PABLO WASHINGTON)
Subject: Distribucion Electrica (tesis o trabajos)
Originator: psilva@dcc.uchile.cl
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:16:11 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

Hola estimados amigos!!!

Tengo a un amigo que estudia Ingenieria Civil Electrica, su nombre
es Alejandro Valenzuela, esta muy interesado en buscar informacion acerca
de los siguientes temas:

- Modelacion de redes de distribucion en baja tension (del tipo anillado
  y radial) que considere efectos de perdida y regulacion.

- Determinacion del numero de transformadores de distribucion de capacidad
  optima que alimente un red de distribucion cualquiera de baja tension.

Dicha informacion consiste en paper que comenten dichos topicos o en lo
posible contactarse con estudiantes o docentes que esten desarrollando 
su tesis  o trabajos en dichos temas.

atte Alejandro Valenzuela y psilva
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atte psilva

psilva@dcc.uchile.cl Estudiante de Ingenieria en Ciencias de la Computacion
                     de la Universidad de Chile.
From: nicanet@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:22 PST
Subject: Guatemala Update 12/27/92
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Subject: Guatemala Update 12/27/92
From: nyxfer!nicanet (NicaNet NY)


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            Weekly News Update #152, December 27, 1992


GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WIN PRIZES

On Dec. 9 in Stockholm, Hellen Mack--sister of Guatemalan
anthropologist Mirna Mack, murdered in September 1990--received
the 1992 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative
Nobel prize, for her "efforts in the struggle against political
violence throughout Central America." Mack, one of three people
receiving the award, has been trying to have her sister's
assassins brought to justice; she says that so far a total of 12
different judges have declined to become involved in the case
"out of fear of reprisals." Mack says she will use the $185,000
given to her as part of the award to establish a new Mirna Mack
Foundation, which will provide legal assistance and other forms
of aid to victims of human rights abuses.  [LADB 12/11/92 from
AFP]
 
Meanwhile, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Guatemalan human
rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, deposited her prize medal in
the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City on Dec. 18. Menchu was
accompanied in the ceremony by Mexican President Carlos Salinas
de Gortari, his wife, and the Spanish ambassador to Mexico. [ED-
LP 12/20/92 from EFE] Menchu invited Ruben Berrios and Fernando
Martin, president and vice president (respectively) of the Puerto
Rican Independence Party (PIP) to join her in the ceremony, but
they were unable to get a flight on short notice. [ED-LP
12/18/92]
 

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From: reid@penguin.ocgy.ubc.ca (Ken Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Is Edelmiro Salas an idiot? Your vote please.
Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:57:46 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Oceanography, University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
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In article <1h4ngfINN5bd@taloa.unice.fr>, piro@dollar.unice.fr (Oreste Piro) writes:

> 1) If you think that Edelmiro Salas is an idiot, drop me a message with
> a subject "YES, I think Edelmiro is an idiot."
> 2) If you you have the opposite view please say:
>           "NO, I don't think Edelmiro is an idiot"

No, I don't think Edelmiro is an idiot, although I rarely agree with what he says
and am often enraged by his lack of understanding and his blind following of his
own corrupted ideology. 

Ken
From: psilva@dcc.uchile.cl (SILVA OSORIO PABLO WASHINGTON)
Subject: Re: Consulta Alcoholica de Chile
Originator: psilva@dcc.uchile.cl
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:18:42 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

In article <Dec18.153231.48144@halcon.dpi.udec.cl> dis@halcon.dpi.udec.cl () writes:
>	Soy un Chileno que ha visto como algunos discuten de tragos 
>	en este grupo. Nosotros aca en Chile tomamos harto Pisco y otros
>	tipos de fuertes. Mi consulta es si el Pisco es conocido en el 
>	extranjero y si es asi como lo toman o que tipos de tragos preparan
>	con el. A lo mejor el pisco se da por todas partes y yo estoy haciendo
>	la del loco con la pregunta. Por eso saquenme de la duda.
>
>				Ennio

hOla! HIP! HIP!

Bah! perdona pero es que estaba tomando un pisco sauer!!! jejejejejeje

atte psilva

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atte psilva

psilva@dcc.uchile.cl Estudiante de Ingenieria en Ciencias de la Computacion
                     de la Universidad de Chile.
From: rodin@acs.bu.edu (luis del)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Diferencias en Ron/Rum
Keywords: RON DONQ
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:50:46 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: rodin@acs.bu.edu




A la verdad que somos unos intelectuales del carajo si nos ponemos a discutir de Ron. Pero la verdad es que el cubalibre mas rico que me tome va hacer cuando me lo tome cuando CUBA sea LIBRE, y Fidel me lo este sirviendo, y Gilberto me traiga la cuenta.


Feliz Navidad,

Luis A. del Valle



P.S. si Feliz Navidad suena mui simplista, perdoname Gilberto.
From: julio@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Julio Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Consulta Alcoholica de Chile
Date: 1 Jan 93 16:49:03 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


     En Chile tambien tenemos aguardiente. Pero ningun chileno
    diria que estas bebidas son similares. So, unless you are
    talking about different aguardientes, yo diria que el Pisco
     sigue siendo una bebida tipica de Chile y tal vez Peru.


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From: 002564r@axe.acadiau.ca (RICARDO FLAVIO ROMAN-CARBAJAL)
Subject: Movimiento internacional Maoista
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:59:15 GMT



I saw the last two posting of the Maoist International Movement,
or something like that, I think they have the right of posting here.
But we should be very carefully since its principle party  the PCP (partido 
comunista del Peru) most  known as "shining path", owe Peru 25000 
lives, is in no way democratic.Shining Path think that they are the only 
way for the revolution so if somebody else is in disagreement with them 
they must be an agent of the CIA.They think that violence is the only way if 
a priest, a sister, a pastor an agent of peace, a popular leader etc teaches 
that there is a different way to get progress they Kill him/her. Actually 
they've been doing that for the last 13 years. 
curiosly they not only kill people(citizens or peasants) who belive in 
peace they also kill leftist who believe in revolution or violence but think 
that shining Path is in the wrong way.
From: piro@dollar.unice.fr (Oreste Piro)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Human Rights in Cuba
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:20:10 GMT
Reply-To: piro@ecu.unice.fr
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
NNTP-Posting-Host: mark.unice.fr

In article <2B379347.11458@news.service.uci.edu> rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu  
(Ray Ravelo) writes:
> In article <1992Dec22.182751.21746@zeus.ieee.org> jbarth@ep.ieee.org writes:

> >countries, and several Central and South American nations.  Sources:
> >the World Bank's "World Development Report", UNICEF's "State of the
> >World's Children", UNESCO's "Statistical Yearbook," and the World
> >Health Organization's "Population and Vital Statistics" reports
> >between 1988 and 1991.  (Of course, these statistics are all in the
> >past.  Now that the Torricelli bill has become law, it's anyone's
> >guess how far Cuba will drop).  
> >
>  
>  Jeremy, I just wonder if you know how all those statistics were obtained
>  and who compiled them?

Yes, the World Bank is a well known communist umbrella organization.
Not to speak about UNESCO and UNICEF! The World Health Organization was
fine until Castro agents braiwashed them in an international meeting by
spraying cocaine (provided by Gen. Noriega) through the air conditioning  
system.

>  Is the United Nations taking Castro's government stats at face value?
>  I remember that not too long ago the Soviet Union's stats looked impressive
>  too!

Well... they the declination after abandoning socialism also looks impressive.

>  Maybe all my relatives and friends now in Cuba are nothing but cry babies
>  since all I hear from them is that there are not even tetanus shots,  
aspirin,
>  etc., but then people on this net say things like Castro is selling vaccines
>  of different kinds to countries like Brazil, and medical care in Cuba is the
>  best, etc.

For personal reasons I am very familiar with the state of microsurgery in
Cuba and know of a lot of cases of children from Argentina sent to Cuba to
get their optical nerve operated with a Cuban developed technique that is their
only hope to recover vision. I have also heard of people from US doing the
same thing.


>  Also, the Panamanian magazine "Momento" reported that Castro owns a cattle  
ranch
>  named "Lone Star" in that country which supplies beef to the Cuban
>  "nomenclature" or party bosses. The beef is transported on the Cuban airline
>  (Cubana). The ranch is administered by army lt. cor. Orlando Perez and
>  commander Berto Perez Orama, both officers of the Cuban army.

Are you taking this report at its face value? To say it mildly you have
a very selective skepticism. 

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From: SCIENCE@mitvma.BITNET (MIM)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: The real propaganda on 25,000 dead in Peru
Date: 27 Dec 92 18:23:11 GMT
Organization: Indiana University


One annoying convention of the anti-Sendero Luminoso critics is
to hold the Sendero Luminoso "responsible" for the 25,000
deaths in civil war in Peru. This fools most readers into
thinking that the Sendero Luminoso killed 25,000 people.

The anti-S.L. critics are basically excusing regime
violence. It amounts to saying, "if S.L. did not start
a Revolution, the regime would not have had to kill so
many people, so it's the S.L.'s fault."

A careful reading of the various sources will reveal that
it is the government that has done the vast majority of the
killing in Peru. The reason people often don't hear it that
way is that the regime and bourgeois media repeat polemical
statements day in and day out and a certain percentage
of fools takes the statements as literal truths.

For the many simple minds too lazy to look into this, here
are the Peruvian government's own figures:

Dead since 1980 armed struggle started with S.L.
Presumed subversives. . . .11,872
Civilians. . . . . . . . . 10,286
Soldiers and police. . . . 2,095
Narcotics traffickers.  .  . .264
Source: El Pais, 9/20/92.

This means the regime killed almost 12,000 presumed Sendero Luminoso
members or their sympathizers, by the GOVERNMENT'S OWN FIGURES. That
is not the Sendero Luminoso speaking--the revolutionaries. That is the
fascist government speaking.

The only way to chalk up the deaths to the S.L. is to say that without
a Revolution, no one on either side would have died. But why do we
blame violence on one side?

We at MIM put it in reverse. There would have been no violence or
civil war if no one resisted the efforts of starving peasants to
take their own land. If the government did not forcefully resist
the organization of impoverished shantytowns, no one would have
used violence.

People who examine the conditions in Peru will understand why the
peasants and urban dwellers take to organizing their own livelihood
with the S.L. Instead of seeing active development in their
neighborhoods, the vast majority of Peru sees increasing poverty.
The government and ruling classes resist the peasants' and working
class's efforts to organize themselves economically for one reason--
property. The ruling classes use violence to protect "their" property.
That is the only reason there is war      in Peru today. A small elite
of people believes its "right" to private property is greater than
the "right" of poor and disease-stricken peoples to live. That
elite uses violence and S.L. critics everywhere go on repeating their
justifications for that state terrorism against the peasants and workers.

--Maoist Internationalist Movement
PO Box 559
Cambridge, MA 02140-0559
science@mitvma.mit.edu
From: julio@galton.uchicago.edu (Juan Julio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Is Edelmiro Salas an idiot? Your vote please.
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:26:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Statistics


Yes, Edelmiro is an IDIOT   *&%$#@