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Presente and the Honduran Project invite you to a Panel Discussion on
current events in Honduras with representatives of Honduran Civil
Society and Immigrant Leaders in the U.S.</span></font><br>
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Wednesday August 5th 6 PM </span><br>
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Chelsea, MA </small></small><br>
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Also Thursday, 6 August 2009,
10:00 am</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where:</span> 206 Cabot Hall,The
Fletcher School, Tufts University</span><br>
<span
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Packard Avenue, Medford, MA</span><br>
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<span
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more information contact:</span><br>
<span
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Montes- Centro Presente, Boston, MA- (617) 959 - 3108</span><br>
<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tito
Meza - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 610 - 3784</span><br>
<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isabel
Lopez - Honduran Project, Chelsea, MA - (617) 306 - 1365</span><br>
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size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Panelists
will include:</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Juan Almendares </span>(to be
confirmed) is an internationally known Honduran medical doctor, human
rights activist, environmental leader and alternative medicine
practitioner. He has received recognition for his outstanding and
courageous work with victims of torture in Honduras. He is the
internationally chosen recipient of the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for
his groundbreaking efforts with prisoners, victims of torture, the
poor, and indigenous populations. A torture survivor himself, Dr.
Almendares has been targeted by death squads on several occasions.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Oscar Chacón</span> serves currently as
Executive Director of the National Alliance of Latin American &
Caribbean Communities (NALACC). Until December, 2006, Mr. Chacón served
as director of Enlaces América, a project of the Chicago-based
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. Mr. Chacón served
for most of the 1990's as executive director of Centro Presente, Inc,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Chacón served for many years as
president of the Salvadoran American National Network (SANN). Mr.
Chacón is a frequent lecturer in national and international
conferences, as well as a media spokesperson on Latino immigrant issues
in the U.S. </span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Abencio Fernández Pineda </span>is the
coordinator of the non-governmental organization Center for the
Investigation and Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CIPRODEH, by its
Spanish initials) for the western region of Honduras. Mr. Pineda was
previously an attorney for the Committee for the Defense of Human
Rights (CODEH) and the Committee of the Relatives of Disappeared
Detainees of Honduras (COFADEH).</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Maria Luisa Jimenez</span>, a former police
officer in Honduras, denounced the widespread corruption in the police
force and is now an activist for transparency in government and women's
rights. She is currently a candidate for Honduran Congress with the
Democratic Union party (UD).</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Luther Castillo. </span>Dr. Castillo
is a young Garifuna medical doctor and community organizer who directs
the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation ("For the Health of our People"
in Garifuna), dedicated to bringing vital health services to isolated
indigenous coastal communities. After his 2005 graduation from the
Latin American Medical School in Havana, Dr. Castillo returned to the
Honduran coast, where he led the Foundation's construction of Honduras'
first Garifuna Rural Hospital, now serving some 20,000 in the
surrounding communities. The hospital opened in December 2007, a few
months after Dr. Castillo was named "Honduran Doctor of the Year" by
Rotary International's Tegucigalpa chapter.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Gerardo Torres</span> is an independent
journalist in Honduras who is also an active member of Los Necios, a
grass-roots organization that seeks to change the dominant
socio-economic dynamics of Honduras.</span></font><br>
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