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University Affairs Office
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
(707) 664-2057
e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 12, 2003 File #364
Contact: Project Censored, (707) 664-2500
Chilean Author, Journalist Ernesto Carmona to Speak at SSU
Chilean author Ernesto Carmona will discuss the skewed nature of Chile's economic and social classes when he comes to SSU on Tuesday May 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Union Multipurpose Room. As part of his speech, Carmona will also present and speak about his new book Los Due?os de Chile or The Owners of Chile. It is free for everyone. The event is sponsored by Project Censored.Carmona's book, now in its second edition, details how wealth can affect the balance of power in society. The Owners of Chile illustrates how in a country of 15 million, the rich and powerful can be reduced to only 100 names. This places Chile at the top of the most uneven income distribution in the world.
An outstanding journalist, author and publisher, Carmona is an elected officer of the National Directorate of Chile's Journalists Bar Association. He has taught journalism and worked in magazines, newspapers, TV and radio stations in Chile, and also in Argentina and Venezuela after being forced out of Chile in 1973. Carmona is also the author of Morir es la Noticia, or To Be Killed is News. This is a remarkable, highly praised collection of investigative essays by 63 reporters about more than 40 colleagues killed during the military regime in Chile.