WNU #953: Latin American Pride, Mexican Torture Training

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #953, July 6, 2008

1. Latin America: Pride Marches Continue
2. Mexico: Cops Tape Torture Training
3. Mexico: Capital Market Union Wins
4. Colombia: Reactions on Freed Captives
5. Cuba: US Aid Caravan Reaches Havana
6. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico

ISSN#: 1084-922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com. It is
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*1. Latin America: Pride Marches Continue
A record 6,000 people celebrated the International Day for the Human Rights of Sexual Minorities--Pride Day--in Santiago, Chile, on June 28 with an eight-hour Cultural Event for Diversity and Non-Discrimination, held in the Plaza de Armas. The organizers reached out to other excluded groups, such as ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, indigents, people with disabilities, HIV-positive people, and youths and women. Rolando Jiménez, president of the Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (Movilh), said one goal was to raise awareness among citizens so that in the upcoming municipal elections they would vote for candidates who don't discriminate. [...]

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