| Raúl Castro replaces several ministers and officials |
Big purge in Cuba |
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| The president of Cuba, (left) Raúl Castro and his pair of Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, inspect an honor guard, on Tuesday, the 3rd, the following day before announcing the Cuban ministerial purge to him. Photo: Javier Galeano / AP |
Andrea Rodríguez
Cuba / AP
On having fulfilled one year like president, Raúl Castro remplazó on Monday, the 2nd to several of the most powerful and visible officials of the revolution, imposing a personal stamp on his government in what it represents the deepest restructuring since it replaced his brother Fidel Castro.
Between the wrongly placed ones they are the vice-president of the Council of the State, Carlos Lage, who lost his position like vice-president of the Cabinet, and the chancellor Felipe Pérez Roque.
This abrupt restructuring was realized one year after 82-year-old age Fidel Castro, after the deterioration in his health, transferred the presidency of a definitive way to his 77-year-old younger brother.
The leader delegated in 2006 the power, but the officials who were attending to the different spheres – except some ministers' substitutions - were the same of then.
The extensive official statement signed by the maximum executive organ of the government and with more than 10 changes in the highest levels, it was read at the end of the news of the midday without the announcers giving indications on his importance.
The 43-year-old, youngest Pérez Roque between the leaders revolutionary and formed from adolescent for Fidel Castro since his secretary was replaced by Bruno Rodríguez, who was the vice chancellor and got out of debt one day like ambassador of Cuba before the United Nations.
For his part, Lage, of 57 years, preserved his charge like vice-president of the Council of the State, but it was replaced like secretary of the Cabinet by general José Amado Ricardo Guerra, who was a near collaborator of Raúl Castro when this one got out of debt as starter of Defense.
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| (Left) José Luis Rodríguez, the Secretary of the Treasury; Carlos Lage Dávila (center), vice-president of the Council of the State; and Felipe Pérez Roque, the Secretary of State, they were displaced surprisingly of his charges. Photo: AP |
The word of Fidel Castro
They had “an unworthy role”
The Cuban leader Fidel Castro justified the removal of two tall officials, seemingly in reference to vice-president Carlos Lage and the chancellor Felipe Pérez Roque, for having “ambitions“ that “led them to an unworthy role”.
n None of the two “pronounced a word to express some dissent (with the displacement). It was not by no means an absence of personal value. The reason was different. The honey of the power, for which they did not know any sacrifice, woke up in them ambitions that led them to an unworthy role”, added the ex-leader.
Mexico
Riot
A tiff in the penalty of the frontier City Juárez stopped at least 20 prisoners died by fierce golpizas. The fight came untied on Wednesday, the 4th when bands members faced rivals, reported Víctor Valencia de los Santos, representative of the state government of Chihuahua.
Guatemala
They "disguise" remittances
The Guatemalan authorities detected a scheme of wash of illicit capitals, which were disguising of familiar remittances. “We have detected deposits in dollars, very high of the normal thing... in cash”, the president Alvaro Colom revealed on Tuesday, the 3rd during the opening of a forum against the wash of assets of 108 countries.
Honduras
Peace mission
A contingent of 50 Honduran soldiers receives training to fulfill a mission in Lebanon like part of the force peacemaker of United Nations, alone which hangs of the authorization of the Congress of the Central American country.
Chile
Citizenship to Rockrose widow
Joan Turner, English ex-ballerina and widow of the singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, murdered by military men after the blow of 1973, will take the Chilean nationality as a grace after the motion presented by the government approves the Congress.
Peru
TLC with Japan
Peru and Japan have the best disposition to reach an agreement of free trade (TLC) and the Peruvian government he hopes to announce the culmination of the negotiations at the latest in November, 2010, announced the minister of Exterior Commerce and Tourism, Mercedes Aráoz.
Colombia
Pardon for massacre
By order of the Inter-American Court of Human rights, the Colombian state apologized on Wednesday, the 4th for “for without adopting publicly the reasonable forecasts” that had avoided the disappearance of 37 persons and the death of other six to hands of paramilitary in 1990.
Bolivia
Footpath in assaults?
The president Evo Morales instructed to investigate the supposed participation of the Peruvian terrorist group Luminous Footpath in thefts, the Bolivian police have the "hypothesis" that there are a part of armed robberies in La Paz.
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