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Latinos
inAction
. This holiday season,
for every sale of Antonio
Banderas's Blue
Seduction for Women
fragrance gift set, $1 will
be donated to Broadway
Cares / Equity Fights
AIDS. The organization
supports programs that
provide treatment and
services for people with
HIV/AIDS and their
families while raising
public awareness.
. COLOMBIA
Uribe For Life?
FIVE MILLIONCOLOMBIANShave signed a petition to allow
President Alvaro Uribe to run for a third term in 20l0-even
though the country's constitution would have to change,
Uribe has made strides toward ending the country's bloody
Freed FARC civil war, weakening guerrilla forces and securing the release
hostage of key hostages (including Ingrid Betancourt, at left with
Ingrid
Betancourt Uribe). With less strife, foreign investment has returned.
chronicled Yet, many of Uribe's closest allies have been arrested or are
her captIvIty under investigation for possible deals with paramilitary groups
In Letters to
My Mother: A involved with drug trafficking, extortion, vote-rigging and mass
Message of killings, including Sen. Nancy Patricia Gutierrez, president of
Love, A Plea Congress, and Sen, Carlos Garcia, head of Uribe's U Party.
For Freedom
(Abrams Still, Uribe's popularity is at an all-time high; a recent poll
Image, $16). pointed to a hefty 80 percent approval rating, -RC.