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As Eduardo talked on, though we were on the 15th floor, I could hear still hear from outside the slogans   and shouts of the protesters. Bus drivers had launched a strike in the city that day,   to protest against new regulations being brought in by the Government, and were now demonstrating in the city center. Listening to Eduardo, I wondered vaguely why people were not protesting in the same way every day at the hundreds murders and endless human rights abuses that were carried out by guerilla, paramilitary, and military forces each year in Colombia.

Mrs. Ana Sanchez, a campesino woman from the community Tutimayu, is a married mother of five children.  Since 2006 Ana is one of the leaders of an Organisation in Bolivia called Campesino Women Bartolina Sisa Umachay (Tutimayu). In 2007 she was elected as Secretary of Finance, Central Board of the Provincial Campesino Womens.

Session Aid is a unique fundraising activity which The Usual Suspects, a group of local musicians from Templeogue, Dublin have organised to support Trócaire’s Haiti Earthquake Appeal. During the weekend of 12th-14th March 2010, the group will travel from Bray to Sligo and play sessions in various locations along the way.

The Usual Suspects

By Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.

As President of Caritas Internationalis, I visited Haiti in February to offer solidarity with the people and to take aid from my home country of Honduras on behalf of our supporters.

When I arrived in Port-au-Prince, I was shocked because the tragedy and devastation were even greater than what I had seen in the media.