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Indigenous Poeple Troubled by US Military Presence in Colombia

By NDPP
Created Aug 16 2009 - 4:56am

Indigenous People Troubled by US Military Presence

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/14-4 [1]

"The head of Colombia's biggest association of indigenous people is concerned that allowing US troops to use military bases in his country will signal a regression to former times when the United States exercised control over Latin America, while a native activist warned of an increase in the number of cases of sexual abuse of young indigenous women by foreign soldiers.."

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