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Another three guerrillas of the FARC desert with hostages |
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| The ex-hostage (left) Juan Fernando Samudio listens to the ex-guerrilla of the FARC, Zenaida Rueda Caldron, to alias “Myriam“, after being presented in press conference in Bogota. |
Bogota
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Two rebels of the FARC deserted and brought with it on Tuesday, the 13th two hostages kidnapped in December, reported the Minister of Defence, while some relatives asked for speed to specify the freedom of captive six. They joined another insurgent who also left the lines of the FARC taking with it the kidnapped one that had 20 months of captivity
The minister Juan Manuel Santos announced that at 4:50 a.m. the guerrillas identified with alias 26-year-old "Ernesto", and 20-year-old "David", presented in the offices of the police antisequestration to themselves in a locality of the municipality of The Castle, in the southern department of Goal, to approximately 125 kilometers to the south of Bogota.
The minister gave a press conference in the department accompanied by two insurgents and by 31-year-old Leonardo Almeciga, kidnapped on December 24 in Goal, and 14-year-old Álvaro Martínez, retained on December 27, in the same department.
Santos said that the deserters belonged to the Revolutionary Armed forces of Colombia (FARC). They revealed that they fled because insurgents were "bored" in the lines and because they had found out about guerrillas' cases that were obtaining benefits on having fled along with hostages.
The government of the president Alvaro Uribe supports for more than one year a politics to stimulate the insurgents' desertions offering them rewards payments in money and judicial benefits in case that escape with hostages.
The minister Santos, in another press conference presented before himself along with rebel Zenaida Rueda Calderón, alias "Miryam", of 35 years, and the ex-hostage Juan Fernando Samudio, a lawyer and 37-year-old merchant, who was kidnapped from May, 2007.
The minister confirmed that she will obtain “a good reward" for his action and indicated that if the ex-guerrilla wants to establish herself in another country, the government would facilitate the exit. It did not specify to what country it might go. “Myriam“ for his part, admitted that it happened 18 years in the lines of the FARC.
| This Sunday, the 18th, to choose mayors and legislators |
Salvadorans go to the urns
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Diego Méndez
San Salvador / AP
Approximately 250 international observers, mostly of the Organization of the American States (OEA) and of the European Union, will supervise the municipal and legislative elections of Sunday, the 18th in El Salvador.
" We will have a very special observation for the elections", there declared on Tuesday, the 13th in press conference the president of the Electoral Supreme Court, Walter Araujo.
He informed that the OEA will be provided with approximately 110 observers and the European Union, which will verify for the first time the Salvadoran elections, will open other 80.
Approximately 4,2 million Salvadorans older than 18 years are suitable to vote in the elections in that 262 mayors will be chosen, 84 deputies to the Legislative Assembly and 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament.
The principal "bastion" in dispute is the mayoralty of the Salvadoran capital, in which the delegated sand-dealer Norman Quijano will think about how to snatch the position from the ex-commander guerrilla, Violeta Menjívar.
The current mayoress thinks about how to gain his second consecutive period and a fifth period continued for the FMLN, which governs the capital from 1997.
The presidential ones
The Salvadorans will return to the urns on March 15 to choose the successor of the president Saca for a period of five years. If none of the candidates gains with the half the any more one of the valid votes, it will have to realize the second return on Sunday, the 19th of April.
Meanwhile, the president Tony Saca exhorted the Salvadorans to come massively to the elections. "It is necessary to vote. The vote strengthens to the democracy, strengthens El Salvador", it showed Big sack in a message to the nation, transmitted on Sunday, the 11th in radio channel.
The Electoral Supreme Court concluded the distribution in 14 departments of 9,533 bundles that contain the ballot paper of voting, list of electorate, minutes of closing scrutiny, inks, crayons and stamps between other tools.
Six contending political parties got worse the weekend the electoral campaign, which will conclude on Wednesday midnight.
Nicaragua
BloqueanPanamericana
At least 160 persons were detained and three turned out to be injured persons on Tuesday, the 13th in a clash between the police and thousands of demonstrators who blocked from the Monday night a stretch of the Pan-American highway, to approximately 29 kilometers to the north of Managua, to demand from the government the mailing of a commission to negotiate his debts to micro-financiers.
Mexico
Police officers kidnappers
The judicial authorities decided to sue three police officers and two accomplices accused of kidnapping a group of Central American immigrants who were traveling to the USA, to extort his families. The agents were working in the locality of Rafael Lara de Grajales, where settlers attacked police officers to propitiate the escape of the immigrants in October in the Puebla state.
Argentina
The president reappears
The president Cristina Fernández reappeared on Wednesday, the 14th in public after six days of absence for illness doing a series of lukewarm announcements to subsidize to the agriculture and fishing struck by the worst drought of last decades.
Honduras
He returns weapon
The armed forces will conclude in February the return of an arsenal to the American signature Samco Global Arms, which offered it to Honduras 23 years ago to face a temporary employee invasion of Nicaragua. The arsenal consists of 4.600 rifles FAL, 800 rifles AK-47, 30 20 millimeters anti-aircraft guns, 2.500 rockets and 48 rockets RPG-7.
Uruguay
Minister in the shower
The Uruguayan minister Daisy Tourné chose to illustrate his profile on a page of Facebook attributed to her, with a snapshot in which it appears, very smilingly, taking a bath, but the photo only shows his hands and face. The minister have confirmed nor denied the responsibility of the image.
Bolivia
War against drugs
The Bolivian government manages logistic and technical support of Brazil to fight the traffic of cocaine towards this country and the matter it was tackled on Thursday, the 15th by the presidents Evo Morales and Luiz Inácio Lula it gives Miscellany in a frontier locality.
Peru
They accuse Fujimori
The ex-president Alberto Fujimori is guilty of the slaughters of Quarters of High places and The Cantuta because he constructed a power device, in the armed institutions and of intelligence, which it ordered to apply in Peru "methods of dirty war" in the struggle against the overthrow, affirmed on Wednesday, the 14th the attached Supreme District attorney, Avelino Guillén.
Ecuador
They low the price of telephony
The costs of the fixed telephony in calls inside the country will be reduced in 50 per cent from January 15, reported on Tuesday, the 13th the president of the Directory of the National Corporation of Telecommunications (CNT), Jorge Glas.
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