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Cuba venue for Colombia peace
talks
Colombia's
chief peace negotiator, Camilo Gomez, has arrived in
Cuba for talks on Sunday with the country's second
largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army, ELN.
The Colombian government says it is optimistic that
progress can be made and the peace process put back on
track.
Negotiations were suspended in August after the two
sides failed to agree plans to set up a demilitarised
zone similar to the one agreed with the country's
largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, Farc. The BBC correspondent in Colombia says
with the suspension of peace talks with the Farc,
President Andres Pastrana has now turned to the ELN to
see if he can make progress there before his
administration ends next August.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal and the
Murder of Daniel Faulkner: Using the Internet to Search
for the Truth
One of the
Internet's great strengths is the diversity of opinion
available. One of it's great weaknesses is... the
diversity of opinion: Anybody can put up a website: Not
everything you read is true, either because of the
writer's inattention to detail or because of his
personal or political agenda.
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Torn from the Land:
Black
Americans' Farmland Taken Through Cheating,
Intimidation, Even Murder
 by
Todd Lewan and Dolores Barclay
Associated Press writers
This is Part One
of "Torn From the Land," a three-part series
documenting how black Americans lost family land
over the last 150-plus years.
For
generations, black families passed down the tales in
uneasy whispers: "They stole our land."
These were family secrets shared after the children
fell asleep — old stories locked in fear and shame.
Some of those whispered bits of oral history, it
turns out, are true.
In an 18-month investigation,
The Associated Press documented a pattern in which
black Americans were cheated out of their land or
driven from it through intimidation, violence and
even murder.
Henry Espy, an attorney, is
pictured in his orange grove in Vero Beach,
Fla., which was taken in 1942 by the federal
government at bargain-basement prices. He was
not allowed to buy it back after the war. (AP
Photo)
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