| Chávez freezes relations with Colombia |
At the edge of the rupture |
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| The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, sings in the tenth anniversary of the new Constitution, on Saturday, the 25th. On Tuesday, the 28th it set to his country close to the rupture with Colombia. Photo: Ariana Cubillos / AP |
Jorge Rueda and Frank Bajak
Caracas and Bogota / AP
The Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez announced the freezing of the relations with the government of Colombia, arranged the retirement of the Venezuelan ambassador and of diplomatic personnel in Bogota together with warning that it might break the relations with the nearby country.
" Before this new aggression of the irresponsible government of Colombia, I have ordered to withdraw our ambassador of Bogota, withdraw to our diplomatic personnel. The official of lower level leaves me there... we are going to freeze the relations with Colombia", affirmed infuriated the chief in a transmission of the state channel of television, on Tuesday, the 28th of July.
The measurement took one day later that officials of Sweden affirmed that they had asked to Venezuela to clarify how they obtained the FARC – the biggest guerrilla group of Colombia - antitank rocket launchers of Swedish manufacture and that had been sold to the Venezuelan military men.
Three of the rocket launchers were found in October in a military incursion to a camp of a chief of the guerrillas known as "Jhon 40" and the government of Colombia only asked to Sweden to confirm recently if they had been sold or not Venezuela.
In his Tuesday speech, Chávez indicated that it might expropriate also all the companies of Colombian capital established in Venezuela and finish all the commercial agreements with the government of the president Alvaro Uribe. It even threatened to close the binational gas pipeline that brings Colombian gas.
The whole mystery
Officials of Sweden confirmed on Monday, the 27th that they have asked to Venezuela to clarify how the FARC obtained the rocket launchers sold to the armed forces.
The rocket launchers AT-4 lack the precision and scope of a weapon surface-to-air and there is no evidence that the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC) have used them of offensive form.
The president Alvaro Uribe ratified his complaints on this weapon in hands of the insurgents and in the day it announced that for reports of the Colombian intelligence they knew that the FARC was thinking about how to obtain also rocket launcher surface-to-air “to commit an outrage against our planes”.
“ It is necessary to ask the international community to nobody him to go away to happen to sell this weapon to these bandits", indicated Uribe.
El Salvador
It attacks the mortal flu
A child of three months and a 10-year-old girl died in the last hours of Wednesday, the 29th of July because of the called porcine flu, raising to nine the whole of fatal victims for the virus A1H1. The minor died in a hospital of the region west of the country and the girl in the children's principal hospital Benjamín Bloom, of cardinal San Salvador, reported the minister of Health, Maria Elizabeth Rodríguez. Meanwhile, almost two million pupils of public, private schools and universities of El Salvador began two weeks of suspension of classes to avoid the dissemination of the illness.
Paraguay
Missing persons
After the discovery of bony remains belonging to two persons in the later courtyard of police barracks, not governmental commission Truth and Justice said that, probably, "we are before a clandestine cemetery of the previous dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner". The number of missing persons is estimated in 336 “during the Stroessner order", made sure the entity directed by monsignor Mario Melanio Medina.
Mexico
Another victim
A three-year-old child, Juan Carlos Rascón Olguín, who turned out to be injured by the fire of a nursery school in the north of Mexico died on Tuesday, the 28th in the Hospital Shriners of Sacramento, California, with which the entire number of minors died by the catastrophe promoted 49.
Bolivia
Without disagreement
Bolivia gave overcome a diplomatic disagreement that removed it from Peru in the last months. The decision to normalize relations was taken by the chancellors of two countries in a meeting on Friday, the 24th in the frame of the Summit of the Mercosur celebrated in Asunción.
Chile
In campaign
To four months and a half of the presidential election, the campaign has become inflamed with three principal candidates become absorbed in acidic disputes: the right-wing standard-bearer Sebastián Piñera, the oficialista candidate and ex-president Eduardo Frei, and deputy Marco Enríquez-Ominami, who a few months ago alienated himself of the leader Partido Socialista to be postulated to the presidency.
Cuba
New course
Cuba initiated on Monday, the 26th of July, when there was celebrated the "Day of the National Rebelliousness", a week of meetings of his organs of direction, Cabinet, Plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Party and National Assembly where there will be defined the course of the economic and social policy of the island.
Argentina
Minimum wage
Approximately 300.000 workers of the private sector and the public administration will see benefited by an increase of 21 per cent in the minimum wage a1.500 weight (approximately 391 dollars) instead of 1.240 weight (323 dollars) current, that will be paid in form staggered until January, 2010, promised to be officially.
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