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<blockquote type="cite">On Nov 19, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Fine-Dare, Kathleen <FINE_K@fortlewis.edu> wrote:<br>
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Hello - Thank you for this. Please add my name to the letter:</div>
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Dr. Kathleen S. Fine-Dare</div>
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Let me know if you need more information.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Lasa <lasa-bounces@lists.ecuatorianistas.org> on behalf of Julie Gamble <jcgamble@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 19, 2021 10:44:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org <lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nicholas Limerick <nlimerick@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lasa] María Paula Romo at the University of Pennsylvania</font>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 19, 2021</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We hope this email finds you well during these times that continue to present uncertain realities. We write to you today out of dismay about recent events occurring at the University
of Pennsylvania. We recently learned that Penn’s Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS) has appointed Ms. María Paula Romo as a Visiting Scholar for this 2021 Fall semester. As you can imagine, the news of this designation comes with shock and
disappointment. </span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We write to request your support by signing an op-ed that we have co-authored and plan to send to Penn’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian. Please review this<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM/edit?usp=sharing" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)">op-ed</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">we
wrote about Ms. Romo’s appointment and Penn’s role in legitimating Ms. Romo’s perspective, since part of what Penn seems to be avoiding is English-language information about the appointment. </span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As alumni of this institution, we have been in contact with CLALS Director Professor Tulia Faletti to gain insight into the decision-making around the appointment. We also corresponded
with Prof. Faletti by presenting evidence that discusses Ms. Romo’s responsibilities as Minister of Government when she ordered the repression of those protesting President Lenín Moreno’s austerity measures. Ultimately, Professor Falleti informed us that she
plans to uphold Ms. Romo’s appointment. Yet, despite corresponding with us, Prof. Faletti is simultaneously masking Ms. Romo’s status through having pulled down Ms. Romo’s Visiting Scholar page from CLALS’s website, refusing to respond to a<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fpennlaw-rechazo-a-la-asignaci%25C3%25B3n-de-mar%25C3%25ADa-paula-romo-como-profesora-en-la-universidad-de-pensilvania&data=04%7C01%7Cjulie.gamble%40trincoll.edu%7C555a70d35f314c26e35508d99c86da58%7Ca6cda06a52d94672ae1ff6f9c9f14e37%7C0%7C0%7C637712925278055734%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=CXvTiMSsLZKAkXXEYtLSKcY2RljJbkC6hOfvr8Oyc%2Bw%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">change.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>petition
with more than 10,000 signers, and ignoring the active Twitter campaign against this appointment that has largely happened from Ecuador. The whole situation feels ambiguous and disingenuous. </span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We write the listserv to see if others would be interested in signing before we send the petition to<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Daily Pennsylvanian</i>,
the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper. We hope you are able to sign on. Also, please feel free to circulate this letter to other Ecuadorianist scholars that would potentially sign-on. If you need more information about our previous correspondences
with the University, we’re happy to provide it. After reviewing the<span class="x_gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM/edit" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)">letter</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,
if you wish to sign on and support the letter, please email us back at Julie Gamble (</span><a href="mailto:julie.gamble@trincoll.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)">julie.gamble@trincoll.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)
and Nicholas Limerick (</span><a href="mailto:nl2539@tc.columbia.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)">nl2539@tc.columbia.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) </span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks very much,</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Julie Gamble, Ph.D. & Nicholas Limerick, Ph.D.</span></p>
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