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Porcine flu kills Thong safety chief |
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| With the pain reflected in the face, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is present at the deathwatch of his safety chief, John Merino, on Monday, the 7th in government palace. Photo: Dolores Ochoa / AP |
Quito
AP
The president Rafael Correa visibly moved contained the tears on having pronounced a speech in the funeral of his safety chief, who died of porcine flu and was buried on Tuesday, the 8th in Guayaquil.
The lieutenant colonel of the Air Force, John Merino, died on Sunday, the 6th, after remaining 28 days in the Military hospital become infected with the virus of the influenza A H1N1.
“ You were reliable, you knew my happy moments and sadnesses”, pointed out the chief who had to do a break to contain the tears.
The coffin of Merino, covered with a national flag, was taken in shoulders by officials of the Air Force, in one of the cemeteries of Guayaquil, city 270 kilometers to the south-west of Quito, where his family resides.
The remains were watched on Monday, the 7th in the palace of government, where it received military honors with the presence of the first chief and the ministers of the state.
In the government house, in addition to Merino, there endured porcine flu another member of the presidential escort and the minister of the Politics, Ricardo Patiño, who are already recovered.
After three cases were known, the president Correa was put in observation for seven days like precaution measurement. After this time the illness discarded in the chief.
In Bogota, which does not have diplomatic relations with Quito from any more than one year, the government of the president Alvaro Uribe expressed a message being sorry about the death of the Ecuadoran official and sent his condolences to Thong.
The government of Colombia and the president Uribe “they are sorry deeply about the death” of Merino, it indicated the note.
Also, the government and Uribe – the one who resumed on the same Monday his activity public officials after a week of rest for having the porcine flu - “his most felt condolences make to come to the Ecuadoran head of state, to the government of this country and to the relatives of the official”, added the presidency in a bulletin spread to the press in an e-mail.
Since the first case of porcine flu was brought in Ecuador, on May 15, 36 deceased and 1.382 infected ones have registered.
El Salvador
Funes in Brazil
The Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes, the first leftist who governs El Salvador, traveled on Tuesday, the 8th to Brazil in visit of the state and there met the chief Luiz Inacio Lula, with whom he signed several agreements, between them one that facilitates the buy of Brazilian generic medicines. Also it managed a credit on behalf of Banco Nacional of Economic and social development of Brazil to improve the fleet of the Salvadoran public transport and financial aid for diverse social projects.
Bolivia
Favorite Evo
The president Evo Morales, of the ethnic group Aymara, who is outlined like favorite to the reelection, will face seven opponents, between them an ex-military man, a centrist businessman and four Quechua natives disillusioned in the presidential and legislative elections of December 6. To the midnight of Monday, the 7th he conquered the term for the candidates' inscription.
Dominican
Rescued
Two young fishermen-Luis Alfredo Milán Reyes and Jonathan Méndez Otero, both of 21 years - that Aguadilla missing persons were brought, Puerto Rico, from the last Wednesday, the 2nd, appeared in Dominican waters on Saturday, the 5th he confirmed the State Agency for the emergency Handling and Administration of Disasters (AEMEAD).
Honduras
Constituent
Sympathizers of the laid down president Manuel Zelaya gave his support to the initiative to summon the constituent one and expressed his rejection to which the people should take part in the elections of November impelled by the government of fact.
Nicaragua
Labor unemployment
The trade union of the Costa Rican Box of the Social Insurance (Undeca) executed a works unemployment on Thursday, the 10th, to demand wage progress for not professional personnel and the overtime payment for attention of cases of porcine flu.
Mexico
More austerity
The president Felipe Calderón proposed on Tuesday, the 8th to suppress three secretariats of the State – those of Tourism, Agrarian Reform and of the Civil service - like part of a wide plan of austerity with which he thinks about how to obtain more resources to fight the poverty in Mexico.
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