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Mexico's Drug War - Loyola University
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

MEXICO'S DRUG WAR

April 15 at 4:00 in Finnegan Auditorium

 

18,000 people killed since January 2006.

536 executions reported in just 7 days this March.

10,000 Mexican troops occupy Juárez.

Washington just proposed a $331 million plan.

 UTEP anthropologist, Dr. Howard Campbell, discusses his new book Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez (2010). Book sale and singing will follow.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Criminal Justice and Anthropology, the Latin American Studies Program, and CARTE. Contact Prof. Dina Berger, Department of History, with questions at dberge2@luc.edu.

Cuban Filmaker, Gloria Rolando, at Columbia College
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Collins Hall / 624 S Michigan / Room 602

Gloria Rolando has been making films for more than 20 years at ICAIC (the Cuban National Film Institute) and is a founding member of Images of the Caribbean, a film collective dedicated to developing projects that focus on Afro-descendant communities in Cuba. On Thursday, she will screen and discuss the first chapter of her new work-in-progress Breaking the Silence, a project consisting of three chapters dedicated to the history of the Party of the Independents of Color (PIC) in Cuba. The first chapter documents the history of Afro-descendant Cubans’ struggles from colonial times through 1902, when Cuba achieved its independence from Spain. 

 For more info on Breaking the Silence see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/breakingthesilence.htm

For a list of other films by Gloria Rolando see: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/gloriarolando/gloriarolando.htm

2006 Interview with Gloria Rolando by Adventure Divas http://www.adventuredivas.com/divas/cuba/gloria-rolando/

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