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Peru: Mass Sterilizations During ex-president Alberto Fujimori Term

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Empowerment Expert Davidds Shares How Latina Women Can Take Charge in Conversations with Their Partners

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Blogante Headlines for Tuesday – October 9th, 2007

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QUOTE: “They built 160 sterilization clinics,” Rosie Perez said. “The women would work a full day and then get sterilized and be back at work the next day. They told the women they were doing their patriotic duty; they didn’t tell them the procedure could not be reversed.” – (this did happen in Puerto Rico, I recently learned)

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Blogante Headlines for Monday – October 1st, 2007

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La Operación documents sterilization – a film about the systematic sterilization of Puerto Rican women by their government, often without their knowledge – Operation Bootstrap 30s to the 80s (I had no idea)

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Did You Know? In 1936, 6.5 percent of Puerto Rican women had been sterilized. By 1953, 20 percent of women had the operation. By 1980, one-third of the women on the island had been sterilized.

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