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Dominican Republic
Survivors catch
Two brothers who survived a shipwreck were sentenced on Tuesday, the 11th to a year of jail until the fund judgment should be opened, they pointed out like persons in charge of organizing an illegal trip to Puerto Rico in which 29 partners died.
The judge of the court of the Permanent Attention of the Circuit of the province Duarte, Alan Castillo, arranged the prison of Gregorio and Saulo Maria Marizan, who will remain in the jail until the fund judgment begins.
Honduras
Plastic urns
The electoral authorities announced that they will use for the first time plastic urns in the primary elections of November 30, instead of the traditional pasteboard urns. "It is a question of transparent receptacles of corrugated plastic pasteboard bought in Mexico that will be used for the first time in the country", said the spokesman of the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE), Carlos Romero.
Bolivia
They deliver remains
The remains of Rainer Ibsen, a university student missing and murdered during the dictatorship in the years ‘70, were delivered on Tuesday, the 10th to his relatives after 37 years of his death. The remains of another three identified missing persons will be delivered in the next days, between them of the Argentine biochemist Óscar Pérez Bentancurt, eliminated in 1972.
Peru
The ex-minister surrenders
The ex-minister aprista Rómulo León Alegría delivered to himself on Thursday, the 13th to the courts Lynx anticorruption, in Lima, after 38 days of remaining in the secrecy for the irregular authorization of five petroleum lots in favor of the company Discover Petroleum.
They deliver remains
The remains of Rainer Ibsen, a university student missing and murdered during the dictatorship in the years ‘70, were delivered on Tuesday, the 10th to his relatives after 37 years of his death. The remains of another three identified missing persons will be delivered in the next days, between them of the Argentine biochemist Óscar Pérez Bentancurt, eliminated in 1972.
Mexico
They kidnap peasants
Military guy was looking for the police to 27 agricultural workers kidnapped by approximately 10 hard armed men who were dressing uniforms. The attackers extracted the peasants of his beds on Monday, the 10th in a farm of vegetables near to the state capital of Culiacán, perhaps so that they are employed at the cultivation of the marijuana.
Costa Rica
Intoxicated deputy
Deputy Ovidio Agüero resigned on Tuesday, the 10th from his judicial immunity for pressures of the same partners in the Congress, to face a temporary employee I process for the death of a cyclist who was knocked down by a car that the legislator was leading in the drunkenness state, according to the police.
Ecuador
Blow to “drug traffickers“
Effective antidrugs seized 300 kilograms of secret cocaine in a wooden shipment and tobacco in the direction of Dominican Republic and stopped five persons as regards the find, in the course of an operation named "Armageddon".
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School collapses in Haiti, nearly 100 pupils die |
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| With the covered ground face, a child is loaded by the Haitian fireman Nathaniel Lasseur after being rescued of the debris of the school The Promesse, on Friday, the 7th. |
Jonathan M. Katz
Petionville, Haiti / AP
The rescue teams assigned to the victims' search, after the destruction of a school in Haiti on Friday, the 7th, indicated that survivors do not hope to find already in the area, while the stench of the death was becoming more penetrating between the debris.
French and Haitian firemen were using probes of ultrasound, camerawomen and sleuths in search of victims between the remains of the building, days after the structure of concrete collapsed causing the death of at least 94 students and hurting seriously 150 more.
Several corpses were extracted from Monday, the 10th, covered of dust, while the radars and the cameras detected others.
The American captain Michael Istvan made sure that the possibilities of finding more survivors it was remote and added that the number of victims probably would not increase too much.
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| Brigades remove the debris and walls of concrete in search of survivors in the school demolished in Petionville, Haiti. |
On the same Monday, the owner and in charge of the construction of the school, the Protestant preacher Small fort Augustin, appeared before a judge. The authorities were investigating it for not premeditated murder, affirmed the spokesman of the police, Garry Desrosier.
There are no survivors' evidences since four children were extracted on Saturday, the 8th morning, showed Daniel Vigee, chief of a French rescue team with head office in Martinique.
The members of the International Brigade were employed at the areas where the neighbors said to listen to voices or had received called phone companhies of the trapped survivors, but without being successful.
Finally, before the Monday dawn, they opened new areas for the search, knocking down a wall of concrete of two apartments that one was supporting scarcely in foot after the destruction.
From Fairfax
Firemen transported from the American county of Fairfax, Virginia, for the International Development agency (AID), had warned previously that to knock down the wall would be too dangerous for the brigades and possible survivors, but on having diminished the hopes to find alive persons, they withdrew it using power tools.
A team of eight military men assigned to the South Command of the United States helped in the actions of rescue.
It is not known how many persons were inside the building when it collapsed, although the school would have approximately 500 students.
Haitian officials said that several persons could escape when the destruction began, without being known how many had time to escape or were extracted of the debris on Friday.
The president Rene Preval realized several visits to the disaster area, blaming for the tragedy to the constant changes in the government and to the nonperformance of the law.
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Hundreds of infected with the virus of the AIDS
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iSantiago
Agencies
A real scandal came untied in this country after be known that several public hospitals did not inform hundreds of his patients that there are bearers of the virus of the AIDS.
The case arose for numerous denunciations of persons infected by the virus in the hospitable centers, fact that provoked the resignation of Maria Soledad Barría at the head of the department of Health, which was accepted by the president Michelle Bachelet, who is medical and expert in AIDS.
This situation caused criticism of Chilean organizations of support of patients of the AIDS, who point out that Bachelet “has not destined the necessary resources to prepare this illness".
The president answered with the appointment of Álvaro Eranzo like the new minister of Health and the announcement of the removal from office of several officials.
Eranzo for his part, admitted before a meeting of the Congress that the authorities face a "serious and delicate" situation. It revealed that at least 320 persons were infected by the virus of the VIH, which the AIDS provokes, which still have not been notified, according to information of the Institute of Public Health.
Días behind one knew that five persons to whom there was detected VIH (Virus of Human Immunodeficiency) after El Salvador of Santiago donated blood in the hospital, they were not informed about his situation by the persons in charge of the establishment. This was the second case in a few weeks, since in October it was discovered that 25 persons with positive examinations of AIDS – of whom four died later - had not been notified by the direction of the local hospital.
On this matter, the dean of the faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, Cecilia Sepúlveda, affirmed that in Chile there are nearly 40.000 persons who do not know that there are bearers of the VIH.
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