University students with problems of audition denounce discrimination |
Students of Gallaudet protest
for election of the new president |
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Students of Gaullaudet protest in the entry to the University for the second day in a row.
Photo Adrián Meshad/Washington Hispanic. |
Nilda Melissa Díaz
Washington Hispanic
From 3:00 a.m. of last Wednesday, the 11th, players of American soccer joined the protests against the election, like the ninth president, of the Dra. Jane Fernández and they prevented the entry of every person to the campus of the University of Gallaudet, academic institution recognized worldwide for being dedicated to persons with problems of audition.
What it began like a protest against the process of election of Fernández, who must begin his management in January, 2007, it has brought to collation old problems of the institution. Between these one emphasizes that only 40 per cent of the students graduate and that, in his six years like síndica (provost), Fernández has not done anything to improve it, according to student leaders. The students make sure that Fernández has not promoted the deaf persons culture either and that it has no leadership. Also, many students make sure that they have been discrimination victims inside the university. Also, there is a dispute on the American language of signs (ASL, for his initials in English)
The Dra asked for the faculty to. Fernández his resignation in a letter that it began:
" Gallaudet is in crisis". The current president, I. King Jordan, declared that "the campus is used like hostage". But, Fernández already expressed a declaration making sure that he will not resign because it would worsen the situation. Also, it expressed that "we live in a country governed by the law, not by the lawlessness".
They have arisen you protest against this forced closing because the university also has a maternal, elementary, intermediate and top school. The students of these could not have been present at classes either.
Almost 19 years ago, in March, 1988, Gallaudet had a similar situation, when Elizabeth A was chosen. Zinser as the president. In this occasion, Zinser was the only candidate to the presidency that did not have problems of audition. After 15 days of protests, which a march included to the Acropolis, Zinser resigned from his position and there was chosen King, current president.
| It was containing radiators refrigerant |
| Syrup kills 21 persons in Panama |
For James Aparicio / AFP
From Panama
A laboratory of medicines of the state Box of the Social Insurance (CSS) of Panama was closed on Thursday, the 12th and low position guards police, after a refrigerant is discovered for radiators in a syrup without sugar, which would have provoked the death of 21 patients in last two weeks, the director of the entity announced.
René Luciani confirmed that you try laboratory realized by the Center of Control of Illnesses of Atlanta (USA) they determined the presence of "dietilene glycol" in the medicine.
The consumption of the chemist provokes intestinal pains, depression, problems in the nervous system, damages the kidney, the liver, increase of the cardiac activity, the decrease of the urine, and possibly the death.
The authorities asked on Thursday the population to stop consuming the syrup without antihistamine sugar of 120 milligrams, in addition to other medicines also made by the CSS, like the Guayacolato of glicerino, the Teofilina, Complex B, Paracetamol, Destrometorfano and Difeninhidramina, while they are analyzed preventively.
The discovery of the chemist, who is not imported by the CCSS, took place one week later that the Department of Health was arranging the retirement of the drugstores public and deprived of the medicine for hypertense Lisinopril of the laboratories Normon of Spain, like "preventive measurement".
Normon defended the quality of his product and detached it from the deaths. Luciani said that all the samples and inputs are analyzed used to prepare 24 medicinal products in the laboratory of the entity, of which 4 are syrups.
Indignation comes untied
The discovery untied the indignation in the country.
the minister of Health, Camilo Alleyne, confirmed that a Center of Control of Illnesses with head office in Atlanta, found "dietilene glycol", of industrial use, in a syrup antihistamine expectorant prescribed to patients with hypertension and diabetes.
René Luciani, the director of the CSS, made sure that the entity "neither matters, does not even buy the substance for his laboratory" and did not discard a "black or criminal hand" in this sanitary problem.
The local press asked that the persons in charge of the deaths "should be" "punished", while there continues his course a penal investigation initiated by the Attorney general's office.
| At the age of 93 |
| They intern ex-president of the USA, Gerald Ford |
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93-year-old Ford is 38 ° president of the United States (1974-1977).
Photo: reuters |
AFP
The American ex-president Gerald Ford was deposited on Thursday, the 12th of October to a medical center in California (west) to surrender to routine examinations, reported his press office.
" The president Gerald R. Ford was deposited in the Medical center Eisenhower in Ranch Mirage, California, for medical examinations", it indicated a brief bulletin adding that ex-mandantario "it is well".
In the middle of last August, 93-year-old Ford was submitted to an angioplastia in a clinic in Minnesota (north of the United States), of which it was restored at the end of the same month when it returned to California, where he lives along with his wife, Betty.
38 ° president of the United States (1974-1977) has suffered several health relapsing this year due to diverse respiratory complications.
The ex-chief, born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, suffered an apoplexy attack in 2000 and he was interned briefly again in 2003, after feeling sick while it was playing a golf party under the intense heat of the desert of California.
Ford is met by his role in the standardization of the United States after the trauma caused by the scandal of Watergate in the decade of 1970, when the republican Richard Nixon had to resign from the presidency in August, 1974.
One of four living American ex-presidents, Ford has spent the majority of his years after leaving the White House dedicated to the reading and to playing golf.
