| Alexis Argüello was three times a world box champion |
They find the mayor dead sandinista of Managua |
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| On Saturday, the 27th, only four days, before being found dead, the mayor of Managua, Alexis Argüello (right) inaugurated a public gymnasium that takes his name in the city of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Photo: Anthony Luna / AP |
German Filadelfo
Managua, Nicaragua / AP
The mayor of Managua and ex-tricampeón boxing world cup, Alexis Argüello, was found dead on Wednesday, the 1st, reported the Secretariat of Information and Citizenship of Nicaragua. He was 57 years old.
The cause of death was not informed. The corpse was found in the dawn and then taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine for the autopsy.
Argüello was elect in November mayor of Managua, from which he had already been a deputy mayor in the previous period endorsed by the Front Sandinista of National Liberation (FSLN), to whose revolutionary diet, contradictoriamente, was opposed in the decade of ‘80 when it showed his support to the "contras" or the resistance financed by the United States.
The presidential spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, communicated that his husband and president Daniel Ortega cancelled the trip to the capture of possession of the Panamanian president, Ricardo Martinelli. "We are dismayed", it expressed.
Argüello "it was of a model spirit and an example of our youth", added Murillo. The government decreed three days of national duel for the death of the ex-boxer.
Hundreds of persons, mostly sandinistas that were carrying flags rojinegras of the FSLN, overflew in the streets of the Nicaraguan capital to show his mourning.
The police Monte de los Olivos closed the vehicles access in the surroundings of the funeral parlor, in the center of the city, where it would be watched and where multitudes began to come.
The ex-boxer had returned Sunday of Puerto Rico, where he traveled to press sports and cultural bonds hard with the authorities of the island and produce homage to the legend boricua of the baseball, Roberto Clemente.
In Puerto Rico there led on January 28, 1978 one of his most famous combats against the boricua Alfredo Escalera, to whom there him gained the title super pen of the World Council of Boxing with a nocaut in 13 assaults.
" Alexis was not a simple friend, he was my brother", affirmed the "Salsero" Stairs. "He could not believe it when they said it to me... I thought that they were joking with me", it added.
" His decease means a loss for the world boxing and a much stronger loss for Nicaragua", expressed the legendary Panamanian boxer, Roberto "stone Hand" Durán. "It hurts me because Alexis has been a boxer who has given him inspiration to the new youth of the sport in Nicaragua and the world", he said.
They survive Argüello his wife Carla, nine children and two grandchildren.
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THE BEST IN THE HISTORY
He was a world boxing champion in three categories for nine years.
Alexis Argüello known as "The Explosive Weak point" by his fortress given and ripe figure, was a champion of the featherweight between 1974-77, of the weight light novice monk between 1978-80, and of the light weight of 1981-83.
In 1992 it was exalted to the Lounge of the Reputation of the Boxing.
In 1999, The Associated Press chose it like the best boxer in the history of the weight light novice monk.
Last year, the boxer was the standard-bearer of the delegation of Nicaragua in the Olympic Games of Beijing.
Argüello moved back from the quadrilateral one with record of 82-8, with 65 victories for the rapid route.
| Right-wing assumes the presidency |
Martinelli promises change in Panama
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| The president of Honduras, (left) Manuel Zelaya along with the Joint Chief of Staff of the armed forces, general Romeo Vásquez in Tegucigalpa. photos: Fernando Antonio/AP |
Juan Zamorano
Panama / AP
The right-wing businessman Ricardo Martinelli assumed the presidency of Panama on Wednesday, the 1st for the next quinquennium with the promise to create the biggest work places program in the national history after which it would generate the expansion of the interoceanic channel.
It promised to turn to this Central American nation in the "better place... to carry on business" of Latin America, and to turn in "active partner" of Colombia and Mexico in the regional struggle against the narco-terrorism.
" I will do everything what is to my scope – he told - to advance the ideals of a free economy, defying the ideological pendulum of Latin America", with each left governments.
" This people gave us a clear order to bring a change to this government, of above to below, and this is what we are going to do", it showed.
Martinelli announced that despite the global economic crisis that already shakes the economy of this country of 3,3 million inhabitants, it will impel the construction of a metropolitan train, which cost would be 1.000 million dollars, a project with which waiting to create work places massively and to solve the obsolete urban public transport.
At once they were the chiefs Alvaro Uribe, of Colombia; Felipe Calderón, of Mexico; Mauricio Funes, of El Salvador; Oscar Arias, of Costa Rica; Alvaro Colom, of Guatemala; Leonel Fernández, of Dominican Republic; Ma Ying-jeou, of Taiwan, and the demolished Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, between other guests.
Argentina
Kirchner resigns
The defeat of the government party in the legislative elections of Sunday, the 28th his first victim recovered on the following day: the ex-president Néstor Kirchner, husband and predecessor of the proxy Cristina Fernández, presented his resignation to the entitlement of the Party Justicialista (Peronist). Scrutinized almost the whole of the tables of voting of the province, the magnate Francisco De Narváez, of the alliance of right Union-Pro, was reaching 34,6 % of the suffrages, continued by Kirchner with 32,1 %.
Bolivia
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Mexico
They fall down you send
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Costa Rica
Fatidical flu
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Cuba
With pluriempleo
Cuba continued with the modifications of his labor diet initiated last year and oficializó for decree the pluriempleo, to increase the productivity, to attenuate the effects of the population aging, to stimulate the work in the society, as well as the possibility that the workpeople increase his income.
Peru
They quote ambassadors
The president Alan García quoted on Wednesday, the 1st the Peruvian ambassadors credited in the exterior to perfect the diplomatic work and to instruct to the ambassadors on “how to face and to neutralize the campaigns directed from to discrediting the image of the country”.
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