| President of Ecuador achieves reelection |
Thong until 2013 |
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| To the dusk of Sunday, the 26th, the Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa raises the handle at the end of his “speech of the victory” in the presidential elections. Photo: Dolores Ochoa / AP |
Gonzalo Solano
Quito / AP
The president Rafael Correa gained the presidential elections of Sunday, the 26th after overcoming in a forceful way another seven rivals in only one turned, according to the official results.
" We them are never going to defraud Ecuadoran village, I believe that that's why the immense support that we have received; we have done history in a country where from 1996 until 2006 no democratic government finished his period... today it is gained in only one turned", he affirmed thrilled.
With music, flags, pyrotechnic fires and lights that were forming the phrase "revolution advances", the government party celebrated "the historical victory", as Thong qualified it.
He was grateful for the popular confidence and said to the people: "We ratify to you the commitment to never trump you". Now serdemos "more radicals that never", he added.
If the Electoral National Advice ratifies the numbers officially the second return will not be necessary, and Thong will have gained the right to govern until 2013 with the possibility of reelection, turning into the first elect Ecuadoran president in the first return in 30 years. For it it is necessary to gain 50 % of the vote the more one, or to obtain at least 40 % with an advantage of at least 10 points on his nearest rival.
The above mentioned official results will be delivered at the latest on May 6, a term that is contemplated inside the law, reported the president of the Electoral National Advice, Omar Simon.
The chief, who received the results in the port city of Guayaquil, then moved to Quito to celebrate along with thousands of sympathizers his victory in the avenue opposite to the head office of his party, Movement COUNTRY.
The results point out also that the government party would obtain 61 of 124 benches of the Assembly, continued by Patriotic Society, of the ex-president Lucio Gutiérrez, with 23 curules, and of other parties, between them related some to the government, with less than eight assemblymen each one.
| The question is with which of the three |
Lugo must marry, according to bishop
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| Viviana Cheek, in company of his lawyer Marcos Fariña, said that his relation with the president Lugo started when she was 23 years old. Photo: Jorge Sáenz / AP |
Asunción
AP
A bishop affirmed on Monday, the 27th of April that the president Fernando Lugo must marry one of three women who claimed the parenthood of his children.
" The only exit that has Lugo is to marry one of them", there declared monsignor Claudio Giménez, bishop of the diocese of Caacupé and member of the Paraguayan Episcopal Conference (CEP).
The prelate was referring to 26-year-old Viviana Carrillo, Benign Leguizamón, of 25, and Damiana Hortensia Morán, of 39, who in the last three weeks denounced before the justice and the press the irresponsible parenthood of the ex-bishop and now chief.
Giménez spoke with journalists of the people Caacupé, principal center of Marian adoration of the Paraguay.
" To calm the waters down he must marry, there is no another exit", it annotated.
With Cheek and Leguizamón, according to the denunciations of these, Lugo conceived each children who now have 2 and 6 years of age, while he was still a bishop of the diocese of the department of San Pedro, the poorest of the country.
The child Guillermo Armindo, son of Cheek, the head of state recognized publicly how his and, it even already achieved that the justice was gaining access to his order so that Lugo takes the surname.
Consulted if Lady will turn into the First piece of news in substitution of Mercedes Lugo de Maidana, older sister of the head of state, Viviana Carrillo answered: "not, not, it is well like that; I prefer to be a good mother".al.
A third woman who said to have a son Lugo, Damiana Hortensia Morán, told to the press that "I still did not take a decision about if I do or not a judicial parenthood claim for our child Juan Pablo", of 16 months.
Mexico
They kill seven police officers in Tijuana
Almost simultaneous attacks killed seven police officers in the frontier city of Tijuana, on Monday, the 27th night. The public force indicated that four agents died baleados for several attackers who shot against his police vehicles opposite to a commerce of car stores.
Minutes earlier, the delinquents attacked a police police station in another quarter, killing another two agents. A dead police officer and another injured man left another two attacks.
Peru
It achieves asylum
The president Alan García declared on Tuesday, the 28th that he does not wish that no circumstance alters the good relation with Venezuela, but it justified the political asylum granted to the Venezuelan opposing leader Manuel Rosales, pointing out that like democratic country, Peru is in the "obligation" to protect the one who is considered to be the chased one.
Guatemala
Arsenal drug trafficker
An arsenal that includes 584 grenades, mines you antipresent yourself and antiaircraft machine guns it was found in a wine vault where on Friday, the 24th five police officers against drugs died after a shooting with drug traffickers, confirmed the president Alvaro Colom.
Colombia
I marry spying
The secret police announced on Tuesday, the 28th the removal from office of 11 officials of the organism of intelligence, raising 33 the dismissed ones by a scandal of telephone spying to magistrates, journalists and enclosed government officials.
Panama
They close campaign
The opponent Ricardo Martinelli first in the surveys for the Panamanian presidential elections of this Sunday, the 3rd, and the candidate oficialista Balbina Herrera, second in the above mentioned opinion polls, closed his campaigns, in that both promised “the change” and “the stability”, respectively.
Cuba
He will not negotiate
Cuba is ready to speak about everything with the government of the United States, on equal terms, but he will not negotiate his political and social system, made sure the president Raúl Castro and pushed back that his government is ready to realize unilateral "gestures" towards Washington.
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