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Community organizers and immigrant rights activists Victor Toro and Nieves Aires will be among the featured speakers at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia during the 2009 November Vigil to close the SOA (November 20-22, 2009).
On Saturday, November 21 at 7:45pm, Victor Toro and Nieves Aires will share their powerful and overwhelming story as survivors of the brutal regime of General Agusto Pinochet in Chile, at the Columbus Convention Center. Nieves Aires walks listeners through a detailed story of a woman's strength and resilience, in the face unimaginable atrocities. Toro, who has been exiled in the South Bronx for more that 25 years will present his current immigration case where-in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Charges Victor Toro with residing in the US illegally, and with being a founding member of the MIR Revolutionary Leftist Movement, an organization that US Homeland Security is classifying as a terrorist organization. Together Victor and Nieves charge the US government for its involvement in the bloody September 11th, 1973 coup, and charges the current Chilean government with still harboring officials from the Pinochet regime.
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