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Senate considers bill to increase efficiency of U.S. food donations to poor countries
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WASHINGTON – Witnesses at a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday said inefficiencies in a food aid program are depriving millions of children in poor countries of essential nutrition. Even farmers in agricultural states say the Food for Peace program needs reforms, according to witnesses at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner…
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? Smith: Next steps in Latin America: A role for the US and Colorado
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In a stunning setback for Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, Colombian voters narrowly defeated a referendum to approve a treaty between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Oct. 2. The margin of votes was 53,893 out of 12,808, 858 counted so it was a razor-thin loss. The leader of…
