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  • Colombia works to salvage Spanish treasure ship loaded with estimated $1 billion in gold, jewels

    07/06/2017 10:47:42 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 37 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | July 6, 2017
    Colombia is making progress in salvaging the San Jose, a centuries-old Spanish ship believed to be carrying $1 billion worth of gold, silver and gems, the country's president said Wednesday. The ship, which sank in 1708, was found in 2015 by the Colombian navy and the country’s archaeology institute near the port of Cartegena. The San Jose's manifest showed it was carrying jewels and coins worth an estimated $1 billion, but analysts say the crew may have smuggled extra loot on board, National Geographic reported. “All this precious cargo was taken away from the indigenous people” of the Americas, Charles...
  • AMERICA IN ACTION (PROTEST AGAINST FORMER SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS)

    11/21/2004 6:51:01 AM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 5 replies · 311+ views
    The Columbus Clarion-Ledger ^ | 21 November 2004 | RICHARD HYATT
    Forty-eight hours to celebrate America, its flag and its Constitution. A weekend for Columbus to realize its differences. A weekend for a collage of demonstrators from around the country to sing songs and make speeches. A weekend for Fort Benning's family to miss loved ones on their way to war. A weekend of honoring Army green and a weekend where men in uniform wait patiently in the woods for disobedient protesters to trespass on federal property. For the 15th time, SOA Watch rallied Saturday on a city street outside of Fort Benning. Once more, they were protesting a school that...