| Another hard accusation against current president of Paraguay |
Leguizamón denounces: "bishop Lugo violated me” |
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| Indignant, Benign Leguizamón declares the press after denouncing that the ex-bishop Fernando Lugo, now president of Paraguay, violated it when she was 17 years old. Photo: Miguel Avalos / AP |
Asunción, Paraguay
AP
Benign Leguizamón, the second woman who denounced the president Fernando Lugo for supposed irresponsible parenthood, he affirmed on Tuesday, the 23rd to a radio station that his first sexual relation with the catholic ex-bishop was a violation.
The president Lugo referred the same day to the accusation during a press conference in the government palace and said to the journalists that “this topic is in the judicial sector and they must speak with my lawyer".
Marcos Fariña pleaded of the chief, could not be contacted by telephone by the AP so that it was making his comments.
Leguizamón, in declarations to the radio Our Lady Glorifying of City of the East, made sure that Lugo "violated me when we had relations for the first time...".
The denunciation was reproduced by radio stations of Asunción and the newspaper Ultima Hora included on his electronic page an information with a video in which Leguizamón does his denunciation.
The fact would have happened in 2001 when the informer was 17 years old, in the episcopate of San Pedro, to 340 kilometers to the north, where now head of state was fulfilling clerical functions and the woman was the manager of the cleanliness.
Leguizamón reported that Lugo was in charge to look for it across his driver of surname Acosta, already deceased. "It took me along with Fernando (Lugo), who was waiting for me in his bedroom. When I entered, llavearon (they put key a) the door and remained inside. There it began me harassing and to force me to go to bed with him", he reported.
Leguizamón added that "I resisted and tried to ask for help, but there was a strong music and, also, there was nobody more for fence. It forced me, did to me by force. To be sincere, it violated me", emphasized
On Friday, the 19th, lawyer Fariña declared to the catholic radio Cáritas that his client will not present before himself on Thursday before the jueza Delcy Cardozo, in City of the East, to meet to a laboratory where there should be done an examination of ADN that would determine if he is the father of the son of Leguizamón, Lucas Fernando.
" The law says that a President of the Republic cannot appear before a magistrate, therefore it will not go to City of the East, (on the border with Brazil). In any case, they can come to the presidential residence in Asunción for the analyses", it clarified.
In last April, 26-year-old Viviana Carrillo, was the woman first in claiming and in obtaining the recognition of his small Guillermo Armindo as son of the head of state.
A third woman, Damiana Hortensia Morán, said to the press that also there conceived a son of Lugo of name Juan Pablo, of 18 months of age, but he affirmed that it will not do any claim.
| In Honduras, president Zelaya dismissed it for not respecting an order |
District attorney's office asks to return military chief
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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 |
Tegucigalpa
AP
The district attorney's office asked on Thursday the Supreme Court to return a military chief whom the president Manuel Zelaya dismissed in eve for not respecting his disposition to support it in a popular consultation to reform the Constitution of Honduras.
“ It is an illegal order that no civil servant must respect and this is not a cause for a dismissal”, said in press conference the district attorney general Luis Alberto Rubí.
It indicated that the Joint Chief of Staff of the armed forces, major general Romeo Vásquez, “must be put immediately in his charge. For it, the Supreme Court must annul immediately the order that the president gave”.
Ruby presented in the court a cover resource in favor of the official. The high court still does not declare itself concerning the case.
Zelaya ordered Vásquez to endorse a survey fixed for Sunday tending to consult to the citizenship if he accepts that in Honduras there settles the Constituent one, which is pushed back by the opposition that estimates that one thinks about how to approve the presidential reelection.
Pero Vásquez refused to respect on Wednesday night the presidential disposition and Zelaya dismissed it.
At least five state organisms have declared the intention of the president illegal: the General Prosecutor's Office, the Supreme Court, the attorney general's office, the Congress, the Electoral Supreme Court and the National Commissioner of Human rights.
Nevertheless, Manuel Zelaya has warned that his project “goes against wind and annoys”, I make sure in conference.
Mexico
Andrés beats
The winds and the strong currents that they accompany to the tropical thunderstorm Andrés flooded houses and knocked down trees on Tuesday, the 23rd along the western coast of Mexico, killing a person at least. Mexico expressed an alert for hurricane for the coast of the Pacific Ocean from the Manzanillo south even close to Port Vallarta, but it her deactivated on Wednesday, the 23rd then that Andrés weakened to tropical depression in the Mexican Pacific Ocean.
Colombia
Deadly attack
Seven police officers of a unit antiguerrillas died and two turned out to be injured men on Monday, the 22nd when they were emboscados for supposed guerrillas of the FARC in an area of the Colombian south-west. The police unit was moving for a rural region of the municipality of Buenos Aires, in the Cauca department and to approximately 350 kilometers to the south-west of Bogota, when it was attacked to shots by the rebels at 2 p.m.
Bolivia
Violation in series
More than 60 women of a Mennonite colony denounced that were violated by eight men of the same community, located in the oriental region of Santa Cruz, he informed on Tuesday, the 23rd the District attorney's office. The district attorney Freddy Pérez, said that every "day that it spends there add more the women's denunciations of different ages, from 11 years up to the 47, which accuse these eight males of the Mennonite community" of having violated them.
Nicaragua
Without illiterate
The government announced on Monday, the 22nd that Nicaragua can already consider to be a free illiteracy country, after the publication of a report that reveals a reduction of 19 to 4,7 per cent of the persons' valuation with incapability to read and to write. The UNESCO assumes that a country is free of illiteracy if it limits it to a minimum of 5 per cent.
El Salvador
Ship hospital
With approximately 650 doctors and nurses, the ship hospital Comfort, of the American navy, began a series of free medical attentions to Salvadorans as part of a tour along seven countries of Latin America. The chargé d'affaires of the embassy of the USA, Robert Blau, and the Salvadoran Minister of Defence, colonel David Munguía Payés, they headed the opening ceremony in a military base of The Union.
Cuba
It saves energy
Cuba managed to reduce the fuel consumption for electrical generation without having to come to the awesome blackouts that affect the population. "But nobody must entrust himself: during July and August it keeps on promoting the temperature and with her the consumption of fans, systems of air conditioning and domestic and commercial teams of refrigeration", warned Ricardo González, the director of Rational Use of the Energy in the Electrical Union.
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