| Heroic guards answer, one of which died, “it saved the life to an incalculable persons quantity”, affirms mayor Fenty |
| DC is saved from a slaughter |
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| The authorities of DC, between them mayor Adrian Fenty (der)., the chief of the Police (left) Cathy Lanier and the assistant director of the FBI, Joseph Persichini (to the center), produce homage to the safety guard Stephen Tyrone Johns (box arrives), died to shots for James Von Brunn (low box), with racist precedents. photo: Alvaro Ortiz / Washington Hispanic and AP |
Víctor Caycho
WasHington hispanic
“Happy what am I of seeing you, seeing your face, meeting you and knowing that you are well of health”, there were the first words that there said Carlos Nieves, of Puerto Rican origin, on having embraced and to the life meet for the first time the young man whom it saved thanks to one, transplant of marrow.
Three years ago, the life expectancies for 14-year-old Ramon Hilliard were very scarce. The young man was diagnosed by sharp lymphatic leukemia and his only salvation was to find a donor of marrow compatible with his cellular configuration. Regrettably in his family nobody was compatible therefore his doctors of Children's Hospital decided to investigate in the biggest and diverse record of donors of bone marrow and blood of the umbilical cord known as Be The Match RegistrySM. Six months later they found Carlos, who compatible age. Immediately they communicated to the future donor who accepted and moved to Maryland for the pertinent examinations.
“ I did not ever doubt because I thought that he might be my son. This young man had the right to have a full life along with his family and if it had the possibility of doing it could not be indifferent”, it tells Washington Hispanic Carlos Nieves.
The transplante was carried out successfully, but Carlos Nieves never had the opportunity to meet the young man Ramon. Now Ramon Hilliard, at his 17 years, made his sleep real of meeting in person the person who saved the life. The touching meeting was realized on Sunday, the 31st of May in the church where he assists Ramon and his family, Baptist Church Moderates Union.
“ I already do not have only two children, now I have three. I feel very happy on having seen Ramon, who also graduated with honors of the school”, points out Carlos Nieves, who came from New York, where it resides. Nieves tells that it registered in the donors' record more than 10 years ago when he was still an active member of the Air Force and expressed that it is very important that the persons understand the importance of being a life donor.
“ The persons must not be afraid. We must not think that we are going to donate a stranger but we are going to change the life of a human being. Finally we all belong to the God's family”, it finished Snow, who accompanied by his mother shared the whole weekend with his new family in Washington DC.
“ Forever I will be grateful to Carlos. It is an incredible knowledge that he except the life of my son”, it expressed thrilled, Denae Hilliard, mother of Ramon.
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| Voracious fire in nursery school of Sonorous |
| Mexico weeps for his 44 children |
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| Francisca Moreno Arellano loads 2-year-old Javier Alexis Pacheco, and to a girl not identified, rescued of the flames that devastated the nursery school of Hermosillo. photo: Pepe Avila I Express / AP |
A44 raised the number of children died by a fire in a nursery school of the northern state of Sonorous, where the authorities still investigate the causes of the catastrophe that believes initiated in an adjacent wine vault to the infantile stay.
The governor of Sonorous, Eduardo Bours, affirmed that the authorities check the granted local and federal permissions so that the nursery school could work in a space that earlier had worked like a wine vault.
The nursery school ABC is located in the city of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonorous and to approximately 1.585 kilometers to the northwest of the Mexican capital.
Also, it was known that you punish the instutución on May 26 a safety examination had happened.
Bours said that the first investigations indicate that the fire for flaws in the device cooler of air located in a wine vault next to the nursery school, which personnel did not notice because the smoke concentrated between a false ceiling rose and the roof of the stay.
“ There were no notices, (because) the smoke detectors were below the false ceiling rose”, told the governor.
Bours added that 173 children had come Friday, the 5th to the nursery school, although before it was initiating the fire the parents had already gathered fifty of them.
At the moment of the conflagration they were still remaining 123 minors.
To California
Four of the survivors to the fire of the nursery school of in that they died 44 minors they were moved to the Children's Hospital Shriners of Sacramento (California), which works for 12 years and serves like regional center for children with serious burns of the western region of the United States, Mexico and Canada. The families of the minors say that the institution gives them hopes in a traumatic moment.
“ I felt as if it had found a few angels that are going to take care of our children”, there declared Olivia Fontes Díaz, mother of a two-year-old child with burns in 20 per cent of his body.
In the fire of last week in Hermosillo, the Mexican doctors took pictures of the burned ones and did telephone consultations with the specialists of California. This way one determined who the children were with the most serious injuries and hopes to survive that must be moved.
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| Chancellors' summit approves agreement for acclamation |
| Consulate of Peru opens modern head office in Washington DC |
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| Fernando Quirós, general consul of Peru, invites his compatriots to know with all his documents. photo: Alvaro Ortiz / Washington Hispanic |
Victor Caycho WasHington hispanic
The Peruvian residents of the region Washington will not have already to use elevators and raise seven apartments to come to the narrow and filled place of the Consulate general to realize his steps. That stayed already in the past.
From Thursday, the 4th, the above mentioned legation released a new head office, located in 1225 of the Street 23 of the area Northwest (NW) of DC, the capital of the nation, with direct entry from the street, in the first apartment and in a modern building.
The new consulate is in an area more central than the previous one, only three blocks of the station of the service of trains of Meter in Foggy Bottom and six blocks of another station in Dupont Circle. Also it is provided with several parking places in the bordering areas.
“ We are expiring with an aspiration of many years of the Peruvian community and thanks to God and to the support received from the Chancellery of our country we have duplicated the physical space, in a much more modern ambience, with new teams and with the tallest technology”, affirmed Consul general of Peru in Washington, Fernando Quirós.
After warning that one talks each other of the “phase” of the transfer, Quirós expressed his hope that “before our national holidays of July 28, there should be completely completed this space, where we have duplicated the number of stations of reception and we will have an attention process to the much more effective public across a new software of tails, which will allow the most much more rapid attention to the public, just, correct and transparent”.
To be informed
On the other hand, Quirós invited his compatriots, “across Washington Hispanic, so that they approach the consulate in order to obtain his Peruvian roles and to be informed by his passports and his ID card”, before a public's avalanche takes place in the next months, “when there comes the moment of the awaited migratory reform”,
The Consul also recommended to the Peruvian families to inscribe as soon as possible his children in the consulate, to enjoy the benefit of the double nationality, Peruvian - American.
“ Many people do not know that his children born in the United States and with the American nationality, have the right to have the Peruvian nationality, because when they are 18 years without being inscribed in a Peruvian consulate, this young people loses the right to be Peruvians for birth, and they can only obtain the Peruvian nationality for naturalization, for which they must go to Peru to live somewhere near two years and continue a long step”, warned Quirós.
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| Considered the first one of the XXIst century |
| WHO approves to declare flu pandemic A (H1N1) |
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Not because it is more lethal but because it has scattered in more countries beginning this way a global sprout, the World Organization of the Health (WHO) raised the phase alert level 5 to 6 on Thursday, the 11th of June after an emergency meeting with specialists.
This way there declared herself the first pandemic of the XXIst century and the first one of flu for more than 41 years.
Since the virus appeared A (H1N1) in Mexico and the United States at the end of March, the WHO confirmed a whole of 27.737 cases and 141 deaths, although the global organism has not wanted to blame to any country like initiator of the sprout.
“ All the nations we are vulnerable. We are together in this and together we are going to overcome it”, pointed out the general manager of the WHO, Margaret Chan during the announcement in which also they informed that the virus has had influence in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and other regions.
One of the principal reasons of the WHO to raise the level of alert of the porcine flu is to request the companies farmaceúticas that they accelerate the production of a vaccine and to compromise the governments so that they dedicate more efforts and resources to fight the illness.
On the other hand one emphasized that although the detected cases are light, there must not be careless the control of the sanitary authorities especially in the poorest countries. The last pandemic of the flu of Hong Kong that appeared in 1968 killed a million persons. The common flu kills from 250.000 to 500.000 persons every year.
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| Secretary of Work Hilda Solís reveals that index raises 9,4 % |
| Unemployment beats record in 25 years |
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| The president Barack Obama talks with the president of the Congress, Nancy Pelosi, and other conferees, on the need to accelerate his plan of economic stimulus to brake the unemployment. PHOTO: Pablo Martínez Monsivais / AP |
Victor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
In May 345.000 work places got lost in the nation, announced the Secretary of Work, Hilda L. Solís, “what it means – as he admitted - an entire loss of 6 million jobs from the beginning of the recession”.
In statistical terms, this number represents an increase of the percentage of unemployment, which now 9,4 per cent reach, Solís revealed. This index is the highest registered in the last 25 years.
On Monday, the 8th the president Barack Obama promised revertir this tendency, across the most intensive financing of hundreds of projects of construction in the next months, making sure that they will generate at least 600.000 jobs.
Obama did this commitment on having tackled the topic of his plan of economic stimulus and in answer to diverse criticism for the enormous budgeted expenses and for the incipient results of his program.
“ We have never done any more that, more rapid that never and with major responsibility to achieve that the engines of the economy work again”, answered the chief.
But also he admitted that “we are still in the middle of a very deep recession, and it is going to take a considerable time quantity to go out of her”.
Last weekend, Hilda Solís presented the traditional monthly report of the situation of employment, where it admitted that “many families in our country keep on facing the adversity during this financial crisis”. But to followed line he said that “the government keeps on working aggressively to protect these workpeople who have lost his work places”.
Solís added that with this target, the Department of Work implemented the Law of Recovery and Investment, which arranged approximately 3 billion dollars in scholarships for state and local governments to finance training for adults, young people and unemployed men. “We begin seeing signs of recovery and that the plan of the administration of the President Obama begins coming to more families”, Solís emphasized.
CRITICISM OF THE OPPOSITION
Republican leaders show skepticism
Republicans supported this week his criticism of the plan of economic stimulus of Obama, describing this program as a massive project that in the end will do little to recover the good state of the economy.
Scarcely a fraction of the money has worn out already, so “it is still premature” to give him credit for true improvements, several republican conferees said.
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