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		<title>Ramón Villeda Morales: The &#8220;Little Bird&#8221; Who Brought Big Changes and Honor to Honduras</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a country perennially struggling with issues of lack of social justice, equality and corrupted by successive inept governments, Honduras&#8217; Ramón Villeda Morales (or as his supporters dubbed him, &#8220;little bird&#8221;) fought to free his country from self-destructiveness and to alleviate the problems afflicting a nation better known for its repeated revolutions and annual coups. Ramón Villeda Morales was born on November 26, 1909 in Ocotepeque, a southwestern Honduran department bordering Guatemala and El Salvador. While studying pediatric medicine at Honduras’ Universidad Nacional Autónoma in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Villeda Morales also served as president of the prestigious Federation of University Students. After graduating in 1938, he moved with his wife, Alejandrina Bermudez de Villeda, to Germany, where he attended medical school. He returned to Honduras in 1940 and, at age 31, opened a pediatric clinic in Santa Rosa de Copán, in western Honduras, and then a second one in Tegucigalpa. With an intense interest in politics, Villeda Morales soon joined the Partido Liberal de Honduras Honduran Liberal Party (PLH), where he quickly demonstrated charisma and exceptional oratorical talents. His prodigious public speaking capabilities soon earned him his lifetime nickname &#8220;Pajarito,&#8221; meaning little bird, from his supporters inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forthcoming from COHA: Ramón Villeda Morales, Honduran President and Latin American Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 14:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, COHA will publish Research Associate, Mylene Bruneau’s analysis of the accomplishments which made former Honduran President Ramón Villeda Morales a revered figure in his native country. Bruneau will look into Villeda Morales’ attempts to liberalize Honduran society from 1957-1963, in a process which is still known today as villedismoi, having inherited a country which was seriously politically and socially impaired. Bruneau will examine the legacy that Villeda Morales left the Honduran people with his exemplary devotion to public service. As the first Honduran president willing to enact desperately needed reforms, Morales introduced pro-labor legislation, land reforms, and social security programs, as well as improved the country’s democratic institutions. In doing so, he left an indelible mark on Honduran history, and deserves to be held up as a true hero of Latin American politics.]]></description>
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		<title>The Legacy of Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the courageous and gallant heroes in the Dominican Republic’s history played a key role in the 1965 uprising against the military dictatorship Called upon the world to condemn racism and human rights abuses The woeful mutual history of the Dominican Republic and Haiti (which share the island of Hispaniola) is tainted with bloodshed as a result of tectonic political and racial tensions involving them over the decades. However, intertwining the two, was Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, a Dominican national of dark skin and Haitian ancestry, who would eventually become revered as one of the most prominent and best loved Dominican political figures of the twentieth century. Born on March 6, 1937, his life became centered on politics long before he worked his way up to become the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). During a political career filled with heartbreaks, disappointments and failures, Peña Gómez was nominated three-times as a candidate to be the Dominican president and mayor of the capital, Santo Domingo. But above all, Peña Gómez’s battle against racial constraints and anti-Haitian bigotry that were perpetually used to deter him from his lifetime mission of winning the presidency and then using it to recreate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camilo Torres: Prayer Can’t Solve Poverty Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is always someone who is trying to improve society and seek better living standards by challenging the status quo, promoting freedom, and believing that social conditions can really be changed. Camilo Torres Restrepo, dubbed the “revolutionary priest” by his followers, struggled throughout his life to translate the canons of Liberation Theology into action. The second Vatican Council established the germs of Liberation Theology’s ideas in 1962. Through this framework, Camilo Torres proposed a political, social and economic paradigm shift, which in 1965 served to inspire the emergence of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian left-wing guerrilla group. Soon after the ELN was founded, Torres joined it and became its political face. Born in 1929 in Bogotá, Torres’ extraordinary intelligence and academic preparation were catalyzed in part by his prominent family’s origins and access to education. He lived with his parents Calixto Torres Umaña and Isabel Restrepo Gaviria in Europe between 1931 and 1934. After they divorced, he returned to Colombia with his mother and finished his studies. Soon after graduating, Torres took his vows and joined the Roman Catholic Church as a priest in 1954. Once he was ordained, Torres was sent to Belgium’s Pontifical Catholic University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the Life of Errol Walton Barrow, Pan-Carribeanist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of his relative obscurity outside the region, Errol Walton Barrow deserves to be recognized not only as a hero in Barbados, but also as one of the giants of Caribbean nationhood. Barrow’s local stature derives from his ongoing commitment to the struggle for Barbadian independence from British rule, which culminated in 1966, and his steadfast advocacy of the Caribbean’s ability to proceed with becoming a prosperous area based on its own resources, rather than eternally depending on external assistance. An almost unknown figure before his rise to meteoric prominence, Barrow will long be lauded as one of Barbados’ and the Caribbean’s enduring heroes. Born January 21, 1920, Barrow’s commitment to achieving Barbadian sovereignty should have come as no surprise, since he was born into a family of political activists from whom he took his nationalist calling. While Barrow was indeed a staunch nationalist and supporter of Barbadian autonomy, he nevertheless was quick to join the war effort by enlisting in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. Thereafter, he studied law at the Inns of Court and pursued a degree in economics at the London School of Economics. It was during this period that he would [...]]]></description>
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