Just below the radar screen, an important date is fast approaching.
From November 5 to 8, representatives of the 186-member-nation INTERPOL, the Lyon-based international police organization, will gather in Marrakech, Morocco, for their annual General Assembly. Normally, the event doesn’t make headlines, but this time could be different.
The story begins in July 1994. The building of the AMIA, the central welfare body of Argentine Jewry, was reduced to rubble in a terrorist attack. Eighty-five people were killed; many more were injured. (Two years earlier, another terrorist attack in Buenos Aires had targeted the Israeli embassy, killing twenty-nine people.)
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Free Trade in the Americas is a major AJC concern because we firmly believe they impact the immediate and long-term well being of our Hemisphere, as well policies that will determine the quality and scope of relations between the United States and some of its closest partners. Pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Peru and Panama, to be voted on by the U.S. Congress, represent a singular opportunity to reinforce ties and bring to the fore our country’s ongoing commitment to the welfare of our neighbors. Failure to approve them would certainly undermine friendly governments and trading partners, not to mention American interests abroad.
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