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A Dios le pido… tambien Hillary Clinton

5 August 2009

Erwin, at The Latin Americanist, posts:

Colombian pop-rocker Juanes is not shy from organizing concerts for peace; he was one of the main minds behind the March 2008 “Peace Without Borders” gig along the Colombia-Venezuela boundary. Yet it appears that Juanes is planning a second set of the “Peace Without Borders” series next month in Cuba.

Actually, the Havana concert will be the third planned “Peace Without Borders” concert.  Although Juanes is known to favor the right-wing in his own country’s politics (or at least has given support to Alvaro Uribe), he he refused to be a party to political manipulation by the “de facto government” of Honduras and pulled the plug on a  26 July Tegucigalpa “Peace Without Borders” event.

With some of the biggest names in Latin American music being U.S. residents or citizens, and travel between the United States and Cuba being highly restricted, a concert like this involves “international negotiations” at the highest levels.  The Juanes- Hillary Clinton summit was held at an undisclosed location.

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