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HIV Alert

Dear S&D:

In issue #37, R.F. Price questions whether HIV is the cause of AIDS (“The HIV/AIDS Controversy and Capitalist Science”). That “Exchange” piece raises some complicated issues about the science involved as well as about the political battles around defining the AIDS epidemic. I won’t attempt to address any of that here. But, as a prisoner/AIDS activist with 18 years experience, I want to refocus S&D readers’ attention to the life-and-death public health issues:

Mining in Peru: Historical Background

Recent past and the current situation

In the recent past we have had 20 years of nightmare, of internal war between the Armed Forces and the police on the one hand, and the Communist Party of Peru-Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL, Shining Path) and to a lesser extent the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA, Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) on the other.