Rod Blagojevich, the democratic governor of Illinois, when it swore in the charge on January 8, 2007, next to his wife Patti. The es marked for attempt of negotiating the vacant bench in the Senate of Barack Obama. Photo: Seth Perlman / AP

Coneanna Bellandi and Christopher Wills
Chicago / AP

With his made career bits, the governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich stuck challenging to the power, ignoring called of the elect president Barack Obama whom he resigns and a warning that the democrats of the Upper House will not allow him to nominate a new senator for the state.

" Everybody is asking for his head", affirmed Barbara Flynn Currie, a democratic leader in the Senate of Illinois, as the governor.

Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday, the 9th accused of looking for money and other favors in exchange for the nomination of the substitution of Obama in the Senate. It faces the unlawful assembly charge to commit fraud, which bears a maximum sorrow of 20 years in prison, and of requesting bribes, which are even punished with 10 years of jail.
The governor recovered his freedom after the payment of a deposit and he has denied to have committed any crime.

In his office

Sheltered in his office of the center of Chicago, Blagojevich did not give any sign of that he was considering to resign, and finished his spokeswoman, Kelley Quinn, to say that it was "attending to matters as of custom" in his suite of 16to I tread.

Obama resigned from his banking in the Senate after gaining the presidency. For law, the governor chooses the person that elect president will replace to now in the Upper House.

" The elect president agrees... that under the current circumstances it is difficult for the governor to do his work really and to serve to the people of Illinois", affirmed the spokesman of Obama, Robert Gibbs.
To to wonder him on this matter, Gibbs said that Obama believes that the term should contemplate a special election and begin "a process to choose a new senator who has the confidence of the people of Illinois".

He was looking for money

According to documents of the court, the governor tried to extract profit to his designation capacity across emissaries, enclosed trade union leaders and recollectors of funds. Blagojevich supposedly had a salary in mind – of between 250.000 and 300.000 dollars a year - and he spoke of gathering between half a million and a million dollars in political contributions

Nothing in the judicial documents insinuated that Obama had something to do in the discussions on the sale of a bench of the Senate. In fact, Blagojevich was recorded complaining in a moment since the team of Obama would not give him anything in exchange for his decision. They "are not going to give to me at all except an appreciation gesture".

More crimes

" We were in the middle of a gust of crimes of corruption, and wanted to stop it", affirmed the federal district attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who thought that the charges that Blagojevich faces are "truly a new turpitude record".
According to an affidavit of 76 pages, the FBI recorded conversations of the governor with authorization of a court during last month.

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For the bench of Hillary Clinton

“León“ Kennedy throws Caroline

Caroline Kennedy and his famous uncle Ted Kennedy. Photo: Lisa Poole / AP

Glen Johnson
Boston / AP

It took it to the altar when he married. She was with him in the hospital when a malignant tumor was detected to him in the brain.

And now, senator Edward Kennedy, while it fights the cancer at the age of 77 of age, does called phone companhies to promote the designation of his niece Caroline as senator.

A narrow relation joins both from her death of the father, John F. Kennedy, a brother whom Edward Kennedy has treated of emulating from 1963.

The Kennedy efforts so that Caroline remains with the banking that vacant Hillary Rodham Clinton will leave on having taken up office like State Department go beyond the personal relation between both: it is an opportunity to perpetuate the familiar legacy of the Kennedy in the politics, which began when Caroline's father came to the Senate in 1952.
Edward Kennedy still preserves the office of his brother in the rear part of the Senate, however much it would have right to a banking in the first line for being the second one in antiquity in this camera.

In addition to Caroline Kennedy, also there is mentioned the attorney of justice of New York, Andrew Cuomo, and to other figures as Clinton's possible successors in the Senate.

Edward Kennedy has spoken with the person who will designate the successor, the governor of the state of New York, David Paterson. And the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg gave a recognition to Caroline on Monday, the 8th on having said that "it can do what is proposed".

The interest of Caroline Kennedy in the banking is a surprise, since it always proved to be unwilling to be in the candlestick of the politics.

Although everybody was speaking about her when he lived in the White House with his father, his mother Jacqueline, his brother John Jr and the pony Macaroni, the family tried to go unnoticed after the Kennedy murder.

As his children grow, nevertheless, Caroline, who today is 51 years old, he guards less zealously his intimacy and it is seen by major frequency in public acts.

This enclosed year monopolized holders when, with his "uncle Teddy" next to you, he announced that it was supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama the presidency.

Now, in the west of the career of Edward, Caroline might join him in the institution to which his uncle dedicated him 45 years. And Edward Kennedy might have the opportunity not only to teach him the same things that I teach to another novice, Hillary Clinton, when it came to the Congress in 2008, but to deliver his office to the daughter of his old proprietor, his brother.

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Close to the house where he was living

They find remains that would belong to Caylee

Caylee 3-year-old Anthony, disappeared on July 15 in Florida and his whereabouts are till now a mystery. Photo: AP

Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

Five months after his disappearance in Orlando, Florida, the mystery on the whereabouts of the girl three-year-old Caylee Anthony, might clear up. On hard-working Thursday, the 11th, the of a company of electricity it found the remains of an infante at least of a quarter of local mile where he was living through the minor, whose case has acquired resonance in the whole nation.

The macabre find took place in a wooded and swampy area placed between Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive, in Orlando. The detectives in charge of the investigation revealed that a worker was checking meters in the local community and after parking his vehicle he penetrated in the forest when it saw a garbage bag of which some bones were standing out. What his surprise would not be when it tried to raise the bundle and a small skull it went out rolling. The police of the county of Orange were informed moments later.

Immediately, a team of legal and investigative doctors started working to identify to whom the remains belong and if they correspond to those of the missing person Caylee.

The sheriff of the county of Orange, Kevin Beary, affirmed that the detectives, together with the federal police (FBI) work rapidly, even this weekend, in order to determine the identity of the bony remains.

“ The investigation continues and there is a lot of work of laboratory and of tests of DNA for doing in the place of the find”, affirmed Beary the press. The above mentioned DNA examinations will take place in the laboratories of the FBI in Virginia, provided with the highest technology, so that his results could be known by rapidity and safety.
Journalistic offices from Orlando indicated that in the place of the macabre discovery of Thursday, the 11th some persons were crying, while they saw how the police were surrounding the area with a yellow safety tape.

The authorities informed that in the same area where the remains were a responsible for trailing was carried out voluntary, that it was not possible to conclude since the area Fay was flooded by the torrential rains provoked by the tropical thunderstorm.

Caylee disappeared on July 15 and his mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, was accused in October by murder in the first grade, between other charges. But she sticks to the argument that she left his daughter with a Hispanic babysitter and that this one disappeared, taking Caylee. This version there was rejected on having appeared the babysitter, who demonstrated that she was not ever with the minor and denounced Casey Anthony for dammages.

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It presents the plan of investment in bigger infrastructure from 1950

Obama announces reconstruction of the USA

In a long interview during the program “Meet The Press”, the elect president Barack Obama extends the scopes of his “Plan of Reconstruction” of the United States, on Sunday, the 7th. Photo: AP

Ann Sanner
Chicago / AP

The elect president Barack Obama announced that he has asked his economic team for a plan of recovery that should allow to support the work places that the nation has at present and create more than two million additional positions, do that the state buildings are more efficient in the use of the energy and to invest in the ways and the schools of the country.

" We will not limit ourselves to injecting money to the problem", made sure Obama on Saturday, the 6th, in the weekly program of radio of the Democratic Party. "We will measure the advance of the reforms that we do and of the results that we achieve, for the works that we believe, for the energy that we save, to see if the United States is more competitive in the world", he added.

Obama did these declarations later that the Department of the Work announced on Friday, the 5th that the American employers dismissed 533 thousand workers in November, the highest number in 34 years.
Obama said that his plan would set million persons to work "doing the biggest singular investment in our national infrastructure from the creation of the system of federal highways in the decade of 1950".
Entire modernization

The elect chief also told that his plan includes to install thrifty electricity bulbs and to replace the old calorific systems in you federal buildings in order to reduce costs and to create work places.

He said that the buildings of the schools also need to be modernized. "Because to help our children to compete in an economy of the 21st century, we need to send them to schools of the 21st century", he added.

As part of the plan, Obama emphasized that he wants to extend the access to Internet in all the communities of the country. Also, he said that all the hospitals also must be connected to the networks network.

" Here, in the country that Internet invented, every child must have the opportunity to be in line", he made sure.
Obama said that it will work with the Congress so that the initiative is approved when the legislators return to sesionar in January.

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For prevention campaigns in Washington, DC

They bring less fatalities caused by intoxicated pilots

The campaigns against the intoxicated drivers include simulations as this one organized by the secondary school Burlington, in which several “fatal victims” took part, emergency brigades, police patrols and even a funeral chariot. Photo: John Lovretta-The Hawk Eye / AP

Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

The severe laws and the continuous campaigns against the drivers that they handle his vehicles in the drunkenness state it seems that they are producing effect in our region and offer hopes of less fatal victims in the tracks in this holidays period.

That one there is the opinion of Kurt Gregory Erickson, president of the program Regional Washington an Alcohol (WRAP, for his initials in English), who announced that for the first time in two years they have lowered the numbers of deaths and of injured men as well as the number of transport accidents related to the alcohol during 2007 in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC.

The statistics are contained in 16 Annual Report of so called WRAP: “How sure are our highways?”, prepared by a group of alcohol education with head office in MacLean (Virginia), for the Council of Governments (COG) of the metropolitan region of Washington.

In accordance with the study, the fatal victims for shocks related to the alcohol reduced from 119 to 116 between 2006 and 2007. The number of injured men lowered from 2.988 to 2.827 in the same space.
Also, the accidents caused by the same cause lowered from 5.321 to 5.015, consisting 5,4 per cent.

“ We believe that the increase of points of checkup of abstinence and the patrols' saturation in strategic places they have achieved the reduction of the number of drivers who put themselves after the rudder under the influence of the alcohol or the drugs”, supported Erickson.

Nevertheless, he warned that it is necessary to work much more so that less persons handle drunkards.
“ There is still someone who is arrested for leading in the drunkenness state every 45 minutes in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, and for that reason, now more that never, it is necessary to reinforce the alertness to fight these killers of the frill”, underlined David Robertson, executive director of the COG.

Robertson hopes that all the drivers of the region should take conscience of this fact, especially during this holidays period.

“ In accordance with the statistics of the National government for the Safety of the Transit in the Highways, more persons turn out to be dead or injured by accidents related to the alcohol between the Day of Thanksgiving and the New Year”, he said

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Ann Elizabeth León Poma of Acosta presides at it

Peruvians choose new Council of Consultation

The new members of the Council of Consultation of the Peruvian community in Washington pose with Consul general, Fernando Quirós. Photo: Consulate general Peru

Bertha Sáenz
Washington Hispanic

The resident Peruvians in the consular jurisdiction of Peru in Washington (Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia and DC) renewed the composition of his Council of Consultation for the period 2008-2009.

The elections took place on Saturday, the 6th in the head office of the Consulate general of Peru, where one was provided with the participation of numerous voters.

The new members of the Council of Consultation are: Juana Delia Román Maqueira; Walter Luis Cabel Rios (reelect); Alice Janet Bazán de Jiménez; Daniel Ernesto Alvarado Rosas; Ann Elizabeth León Poma of (reelect) Acosta; Luis Alonso Corrales Dávila; Aída Patricia Ortega Yalán; Great Esteban Sánchez Romero; Lucía Zegarra Zegarra; and Edgar Alfredo Aranda Yanoc.

Then, in private meeting, the Council of Consultation, it proceeded to choose his Directorate for the period 2008-2009. Ann Elizabeth León Poma of Acosta is the new president; Luis Alonso Corrales Dávila exercises the vicepresidency and Juana Delia Román Maqueira the Secretariat.

Consul general of Peru, Fernando Quirós, delivered diplomas to the members of the previous management “in recognition to his outstanding contribution and contribution to the integration of the Peruvian Community in Washington DC”.

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