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<font style="font-weight: bold;" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Centro 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>
</div><font size="3"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When: </span>Thursday, 6 August 2009, 10:00 am</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where:</span> 206 Cabot Hall,The Fletcher School, Tufts University</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA</span><br>
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">For more information contact:</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Patricia 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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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Juan Almendares</span> 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>
<br><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>
<br><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>
<br><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>
<br><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>
<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gerardo Torres</span> </span></font><font style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">Gerardo Torres is a young Honduran journalist who is part of the social organization Bloque Popular, in which he is part of the national coordination. Torres is part of the Politic Commission of the Organization Los Necios that works permanently in the political formation of workers, peasants, student federations, feminist organizations, and that have the responsibility of the coordination of the communication and propaganda matters of the Honduran Popular Movement. He is an active member of the National Front Against the Coup de Etat in Honduras.</font><br>
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