| President Morales refuses to negotiate with autonomists |
It wins "Yes" in referendum for new Constitution in Bolivia |
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| Moral Evo, president of Bolivia, shows a copy of the proposal of new Constitution after the victory of "Yes" in the referendum of Sunday, the 25th. |
Carlos Valdez
La Paz / AP
The president Evo Morales insisted that he will not negotiate with the opposing autonomists to check the Constitution voted in referendum on Sunday, the 25th and added that the only one possible "agreement" will be to "apply" the new Great Letter.
The chief summoned on Tuesday, the 27th his ministers, tall officials and legislators oficialistas, to plan a "management plurinacional" according to the Constitution although the official results of the consultation are still not known.
In accordance with the Electoral National Court, the official calculation to 70 per cent of advance of the inventory, indicated that "yes" it takes a 59,6 per cent advantage, while the está in 40,3 per cent.
The unofficial inventories anticipated that the text had major approval at national level and won in four prefectures where Moral it is strong (La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Potosí), but it lost in another four rebellious regions led by the autonomists.
Nevertheless, the tiebreak took place in the southern department of Chuquisaca where the official inventory said that "yes" it was taking 56,6 per cent of advantage opposite to 43,3 per cent of "not", scrutinized 73 per cent of the tables.
It is irrevisable
The advantage of "not" in four regions autonomists: Santa Cruz, Beni, Tarija and Bulging, led his leaders, hard Mulberry trees opponents, to raising on Monday, the 26th a review of the Constitution, especially in the topic of regional autonomies.
The rejection of the opponents is based that the Constitution grants to these regions less prerogatives than the articles of association approved for these four departments in consultations celebrated last year and that the government qualified of illegal.
" The opponents ask for agreement", it expressed Mulberry trees initiating the meeting with his ministers in a head office in the outskirts of La Paz.
" The approval (of the referendum) is an agreement and if they want another agreement, it will be to apply the new Constitution. There will not be agreement to check. The sovereign will of the people is respected", he added.
Later the civic leader of Santa Cruz, Branko Marankovic, read a letter in which he asks to Mulberry trees him "to recognize the big voting that it obtained 'not'" and to open an agreement process.
" The referendum showed that there are two visions on the country, on the one hand there is the vision that you propose based on the community socialism and for other autonomist is the vision, both are legal and it neither is correct nor is democratic that denies the validity of the vote to himself", it points out the missive directed to the chief.
El Salvador
Bands victims
Investigators of the Division Antimurders discovered the human remains of more than 10 victims of the bands, which after murdering them threw them to a well in the north region of the capital. "We are working to recover the human remains, there are enough evidences, we already find five skulls, bones of arms and of legs", said to the AP Israel Antonio Ticas, who directs the extraction of the skeletons.
Honduras
They seize cocaine
After facing shots two drug traffickers in an island of the Honduran Caribbean Sea, the authorities seized about 1.500 kilos of cocaine and two rapid longboats. "The drug traffickers made use of the darkness of the night and fled, but they are traced", indicated on Wednesday, the 28th the spokesman of the safety Secretariat, Héctor Iván Mejía.
Colombia
Fatal offense
The authorities agreed on Wednesday, the 28th to increase the number of police officers in the Colombian capital, where in eve a firework exploded causing the death to two persons without till now the authors of the offense knowing each other. It was indicated that it still had not stopped, and that at least 21 places and ten motorcars incurred losses.
Venezuela
Killer police officers
The safety bodies stopped four police officers – a governing chief of the political police - and a civil one, indicated of informing in the murder to shots of eight young people happened the weekend in the locality of The Watchtower, informed on Wednesday the authorities.
Peru
It demands Chile
Peru will present of "exact and appropriate way" on March 20 his unproved statements in the demand marine ("memory") against Chile before the International Court of Justice of The Hague, affirmed on Wednesday the agent of the Peruvian state for the case. Then it will be the turn of Chile to present his "counter-memory" in a term that will spread until March 9, 2010.
Panama
Cheap medicines
The first one of three drugstores "Competes" that they will sell at low prices medicines to treat the most common illnesses it was inaugurated on Wednesday, the 28th by the president Martín Torrijos, in the populous Calidonia sector in the Panamanian capital.
Ecuador
The minister resigns
The safety minister, Gustavo Larrea, informed That on Wednesday that resigned from the charge to devote itself to "to support the electoral campaign" of the party oficialista I Agree Country and possibly to aspire to be a candidate for assemblyman in the general April elections.
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