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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES">De:</span></b><span lang="ES"> Lasa <lasa-bounces@lists.ecuatorianistas.org>
<b>En nombre de </b>Carolina Bown<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> martes, 23 de noviembre de 2021 11:19<br>
<b>Para:</b> Julie Gamble <jcgamble@gmail.com>; lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org<br>
<b>CC:</b> Nicholas Limerick <nlimerick@gmail.com><br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Lasa] María Paula Romo at the University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yes, of course add my name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lasa <<a href="mailto:lasa-bounces@lists.ecuatorianistas.org">lasa-bounces@lists.ecuatorianistas.org</a>> on behalf of Julie Gamble <<a href="mailto:jcgamble@gmail.com">jcgamble@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 19, 2021 at 15:18<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org">lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org">lasa@lists.ecuatorianistas.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Nicholas Limerick <<a href="mailto:nlimerick@gmail.com">nlimerick@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lasa] María Paula Romo at the University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#9C6500">CAUTION:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> This email originated from outside of Salisbury University. Please exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We have now updated the letter so that you may sign directly
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here</a> or please email us back directly. If you have already replied we have added your name, but please feel free to double check. Thanks for the solidarity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM Julie Gamble <<a href="mailto:jcgamble@gmail.com">jcgamble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">November 19, 2021</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Ecuadorian LASA list members,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=04%7C01%7Ccdbown%40salisbury.edu%7C948acfeab8f34b0a9d0808d9ab99894c%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C637729499225071334%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=oiPpIkWCdyu0w1krBhE08dRuc2uhYKhXAoN%2B%2FMTgZxQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">op-ed</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://nam10.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%7Ccdbown%40salisbury.edu%7C948acfeab8f34b0a9d0808d9ab99894c%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C637729499225081288%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=inyFsD7nbWiw77CFBm6MFjHA%2F3G5tfMQLTkoz%2BsMQAE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">change.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> 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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We write the listserv to see if others would be interested in signing before we send the petition to <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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fu%2F0%2Fd%2F1yyFSL9-kZBv1keAWKAX8hbRPpXakJNiA7yJr20gMOiM%2Fedit&data=04%7C01%7Ccdbown%40salisbury.edu%7C948acfeab8f34b0a9d0808d9ab99894c%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C637729499225081288%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=wQJX7JF%2FZpgIlOBd4wAbEo5P%2BKFhmnxkRN5v4utsZdo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">letter</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,
if you wish to sign on and support the letter, please email us back at Julie Gamble (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:julie.gamble@trincoll.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">julie.gamble@trincoll.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)
and Nicholas Limerick (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:nl2539@tc.columbia.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">nl2539@tc.columbia.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks very much,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Julie Gamble, Ph.D. & Nicholas Limerick, Ph.D.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Julie Gamble, Ph.D.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Trinity College</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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