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Friday, June 19, 2009
ARGENTINA: Drumming Up Black Awareness"Argentina's small black community, ignored by historical constructions that
have traditionally focused on the influence of European immigration, is now fighting for recognition of its contribution to
culture in the Argentine capital," Marcela Valente writes for IPS. "
'We are fighting for visibility, for recognition of our contribution to culture, and to resist the prejudice that associates
black people only with entertainment and carnival,' Diego Bonga, a musician and luthier of Angolan and Congolese ancestry,
and an active member of the Afrocultural Movement in Buenos Aires, told IPS."
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"Two months after foreign
donors pledged more than $300 million in aid to Haiti," Jaqueline Charles writes in the Miami Herald, "the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean nation has yet to receive any of the promised funds -- or even an outline of where
the money will go, Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis said Thursday. ''
'We are frustrated,' said Pierre-Louis, using her first official visit to South Florida to repeat her government's call for
donors to make good on pledges at April's donors conference in Washington. "
'We are in dire need of financial support, so it would be helpful to know exactly if they want [the funds] to go into agriculture,
in environment, education or health. This was the plan that was presented and they all agreed on it.' ''
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