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font-weight:bold'>C I
S P E S</span></font></b><font
size=6 face=Courier><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoHeader align=center style='text-align:center;background:#BFBFBF'><b><i><font
size=6 face=Courier><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Courier;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>ACTION ALERT</span></font></i></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face=Palatino><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Palatino;font-weight:
bold'>Take Action to Support the Mobilization Against Water Privatization in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Join CISPES as We Publicly Defend the Right to Organize! </span></font></i></b><i><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>(<i><span style='font-style:italic'>version</span></i> <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>en espa</span></i></span></font><i><font size=2><span
lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>ñol abajo)<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>October 16, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.5pt'>On Tuesday, October 17, thousands of people take to the streets of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Salvador</st1:City></st1:place> in the first
major, national mobilization to protest the government’s plans to
privatize water. This protest comes just weeks after the Salvadoran right
wing party ARENA forced passage of the draconian “anti-terrorist”
law in the National Assembly (more info at </span></font><font size=3
color=black face="Lucida Grande"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Lucida Grande";color:black'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/index.html#anti-terr"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/index.html#anti-terr</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=3><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>.) The legislation leaves the
definition of terrorism up to broad interpretation, while specifically naming
some common protest practices – such as the occupation of public
buildings – as terrorist acts punishable with decades of imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.5pt'>Political repression has been on the rise in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>; over the past four
months a number people connected with opposition to the ARENA government have
been brutally murdered in the style of death squads, while the Salvadoran Human
Rights Office has denounced the existence of extermination groups functioning
within the National Civilian Police (PNC). A student protest in July
resulted in deaths and the invasion of the autonomous <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
by the PNC. Meanwhile, the government has done nothing to investigate
these crimes and violations of the 1992 Peace Accords.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.5pt'>The social movement in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> is mobilizing despite the
repression, and despite the government’s attempts to equate protest with
terrorism. Last week social movement organizations marched to denounce
the “social crisis” in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> and to demand the
repeal of the anti-terrorism law. On October 17 they are marching to send
a strong message that the movement against the imposition of CAFTA and other
neoliberal policies – including the privatization of such a basic
necessity as water – will not be intimidated into silence. The
march will be a major test of the government’s intentions to utilize the
anti-terrorist law.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.5pt'>One October 17, CISPES is publishing a paid ad in two Salvadoran
newspapers signed by over 40 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and Canadian organizations. In it, we demand that President Saca
respect human rights and the right to organize (view the open letter to Saca
here: </span></font><font size=3 color=black face="Lucida Grande"><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black'><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques_-_Action_Alerts/Oct17paid_ad.html"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques_-_Action_Alerts/Oct17paid_ad.html</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:black'>.) </span></font><font
size=3><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> Join Salvadoran organizations in
pressing for our demands!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>TAKE
ACTION!</span></font></u></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Call the Salvadoran Embassy, or your
local Salvadoran Consular Officer, to demand that they protect the right to
organize and protest in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> <i><font color=blue><span
style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>(see below for talking points)</span></font></i><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2><span lang=ES
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Salvadoran Ambassador Rene Leon at (202) 265-9672<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>-<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Or, go to <a
href="http://www.elsalvador.org/home.nsf/consularinfo">www.elsalvador.org/home.nsf/consularinfo</a>
and click on the city nearest you for the name and phone number of the nearest
Consular Officer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><b><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Donate directly to the Salvadoran
union leading the struggle to stop privatization of water. </span></font></b><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Donate online at <a
href="https://secure.people-link.com/~cissecure/">https://secure.people-link.com/~cissecure/</a>,
or send a check marked to CISPES, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO
Box 8650</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">New York</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">NY</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">10001</st1:PostalCode></st1:address>.<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Be sure to mark your donation as “material aid</span></i>”!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=5 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
font-weight:bold'>Talking Points</span></font></b><font size=5
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>When
you contact the Salvadoran Embassy or Consulate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=5 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>- <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Investigate and put and end to the death squad-style
threats and murders.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Beginning with the July
murder of the Manzanares couple, the parents of long-time activist
“Mariposa”, threats and assaults on activists has been on the
increase. Death threats have been sent to SETA, the water workers’ union;
two FMLN activists were murdered in Coatepeque; Rev. Antonio Romero was
murdered in September; and student activist and son of well known FMLN activist
Luis Edgardo Osorto Gomez was disappeared for 8 days. These political attacks
are reminiscent of intimidation tactics used in the 80s, and we call for
immediate investigation of this repression! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>- <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Reverse the militarization of the police, which is a
direct violation of the Peace Accords. </span></b>The separation between police
and military in <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region>
has declined dramatically since originally established by Peace Accords in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
It is now common to have groups of soldiers “patrolling” rural and
urban neighborhoods in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>, something that current President
Saca has promoted. <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region>’s
National Civilian Police, or PNC, was created by the 1992 Peace Accords to do
the work of law enforcement in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. However, the PNC has increasingly
been used to violently repress protests in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>, especially the
protests against the CAFTA free trade agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>- <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Repeal the anti-terrorism law and halt government
repression of protest</span></b>. This mobilization is one of the first major
actions since the passing of this law, and criminalizes various protest tactics.
The language in the law is also very vague, therefore incredibly open to
interpretation and application. The anti-terrorism law is similar to the
Patriot Act in that it threatens civil liberties supposedly protected by the
constitution of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
We call on the government of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> to repeal this law and to keep
protest legal. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>- <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Close the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">International</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Enforcement</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> (ILEA)</span></b>.
El Salvador is already the second largest recipient of military training in
Central America, is the host of a U.S. military base at the Comalapa airport,
and in early 2005 an FBI office was opened in San Salvador. ILEA has the
capacity to train 1500 students per year, more than the current Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation, also known as the SOA.
Salvadorans fear a return to the sort of torture and repression practices used
by the graduates of that US-sponsored school in the 1980s. More surveillance
does not make Salvadorans safer, it threatens daily life and the right to
protest! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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size=6 face=Courier><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Courier;
font-weight:bold'>C I
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size=6 face=Courier><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=6 face=Courier><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Courier;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>ALERTA</span></font></i></b><font size=6
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<p class=MsoSubtitle><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Actúa en apoyo de movilización contra la privatización
del agua en El Salvador<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>Únete a CISPES en la defensa del derecho a organizarse!<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:12.0pt'>16 de octubre
del 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>En lo que será la primer movilización de mayor envergadura
y de carácter nacional en oposición a los planes del gobierno de privatizar el
agua, miles de personas saldrán a expresarse el martes 17 de octubre en las
calles de San Salvador. Esta manifestación viene justamente después que unas
semanas atrás el partido derechista ARENA forzó la aprobación de una ley
draconiana denominada “ley antiterrorista” en la Asamblea
Legislativa de El Salvador. (mayor información sobre el tema en el sitio web <u><a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates">http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates</a>
and Analisis/index.html#anti-terr.)</u> La ley deja la definición de
“terrorismo” a una interpretación vaga mientras que la misma
especifica algunas prácticas comunes de protesta – tales como la toma
pacífica de inmuebles – como actos terroristas castigados con décadas en
prisión.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>La represión política ha crecido en El Salvador de tal
manera que en los últimos cuatro meses han sido brutalmente asesinadas al
estilo de los escruadrones de la muerte un número de personas vinculadas a la
oposición al gobierno de ARENA. Mientras tanto, la Procuraduría General de los
Derechos Humanos ha denunciado la existencia de grupos de exterminio dentro de
la misma Policía Nacional Civil (PNC). Una protesta estudiantil el pasado mes
de julio terminó en varias muertes y la violación de la autonomía de la
Universidad de El Salvador (UES) por parte de la PNC. Asímismo, el gobierno no
ha hecho nada para investigar estos crímenes y violaciones de los Acuerdos de
Paz de 1992.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>El movimiento social en El Salvador se está
movilizando a pesar de la represión y aún ante la intención del gobierno de
igualar las protestas con terrorismo. La semana pasada, organizaciones sociales
marcharon para denunciar la crisis social en El Salvador y para demandar la
derogación de la “ley antiterrorista”. El 17 de octubre, estas
organizaciones estarán marchando para enviar un fuerte mensaje al gobierno que
el movimiento contra la imposición del CAFTA y otras políticas neoliberales
– que incluyen la privatización de tan básica necesidad como lo es el
agua – no será intimidado ni silenciado. La marcha se espera sea una
prueba mayor a las intenciones del gobierno de utilizar la “ley
antiterrorista”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>El 17 de octubre, CISPES publicará un campo pagado en
dos periódicos salvadoreños firmado por 40 organizaciones estadounidenses y
canadienses. En dicho espacio demandaremos que el Presidente Saca respete los
derechos humanos y el derecho del pueblo a organizarse. (ver la Carta Abierta a
Saca en este sitio web: <a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques%20-%20Action%20Alerts/Oct17paid%20ad.html">http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques
- Action Alerts/Oct17paid ad.html</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>¡Únete a las organizacioens salvadoreñas para expresar
nuestras demandas!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>¡ACTÚA YA!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>1. Llama a la embajada salvadoreña o
a la oficina consular salvadoreña más cercana y demanda la protección del
derecho del pueblo a organizarse y protestar en El Salvador</span></font></b><span
lang=ES-SV> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>- Embajador salvadoreño René León - Tel (202) 265-9672<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt'>- O visita el sitio web <a
href="http://www.elsalvador.org/home.nsf/consularinfo">www.elsalvador.org/home.nsf/consularinfo</a>
y presiona en el nombre de la ciudad más cercana a tu lugar de residencia para
encontrar el número de teléfono de la oficina consular más cercana.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>2. Dona directamente al sindicato que
dirige la lucha por el alto a la privatización del agua.</span></font></b><span
lang=ES-SV> Puedes también donar en la internet en el sitio <a
href="https://secure.people-link.com/~cissecure/">https://secure.people-link.com/~cissecure/</a>,
o envía un cheque marcado con la frase “Ayuda material” a: </span><span
lang=PT-BR>CISPES, </span><span lang=ES>P.O. Box 8650, New York, NY 10001.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>*Traducido por Reynaldo
Contreras-Valle<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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