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Guatemala
Murders gust
At least 33 persons were dead between Sunday, the 12th and the first hours of Monday, the 13th, reported the Guatemalan police. Between the murders there stands out that of a 17-year-old young man who was burned alive by a rabble that was accusing him of killing moments earlier a cabdriver in the municipality of Santiago Sacatepéquez, 40 kilometers to the west of the capital. Also, four persons died in an attack with rifles of assault happened in the department of Huehuetenango, 300 kilometers to the west of the capital.
Colombia
Helicopter falls down
Two military men and two civil ones died on Wednesday, the 15th after there fell down the helicopter in which they were traveling in a region of the Colombian south-west where the army supports operations in search of rebellious chiefs. Between the dead military men there is the colonel of the army José Alberto Salazar, who was the commander of the Mobile Brigade VIII, one of 26 outside broadcast units that operate in the country.
Chile
They withdraw mines
Approximately 23.000 mines you antipresent yourself and antitank they will be withdrawn from the border of Chile with Peru by a retroexcavadora facilitated by the United States, according to a report spread on Tuesday, the 14th. The retirement of the explosive charges of the frontier area will begin on November 3 in a bordering gorge to the Pan-American highway that he leads from Arica to the Peruvian city of Tacna.
Nicaragua
They investigate ONGs
The president Daniel Ortega defended on Monday, the 13th the investigation on several not governmental organisms (ONG), which is considered to be a dictatorial maneuver. "Nobody can be on the law. We all are forced to fulfill it", said Ortega during a promotions ceremony in the Department of Government.
Ecuador
They investigate constructor
The National Secretariat Anticorruption informed that it requested to the district attorney's office to investigate the Brazilian constructor Odebrecht, expelled recently from the country. The president Rafael Correa ratified the order expressed on September 24 of finishing the contracts with Odebrecht and requisitioning all his goods, after accusing San Francisco of being the person in charge of flaws in the plant constructed by this company and that was paralyzed a year of being inaugurated.
Peru
More gas in Camisea
Peru inaugurated the commercial gas development operations in the lot 56 of the deposit of Camisea, what will allow him to export the product and raise his natural gas reservations to almost 15 trillions of cubic feet. The president Alan García emphasized in the ceremony of beginning of operations of the lot 56, named Camisea II, that the project has been started by an investment for 872 million dollars, which add to more than 2.000 million dollars invested in the development of the Lot 88 or Camisea I for the international consortium Camisea.
Paraguay
They invade farms
Despite the truce of 15 days agreed by the government with the peasants' principal organizations without ground, groups of farmhands invaded at least two farms administered by foreigners, reported the authorities. The journalist Freddy Rojas, of the radio "Bird bell”, pointed out that there is a weak truce to the waiting that the president Fernando Lugo obtains the necessary money to initiate the Agrarian Reform that it promised during his electoral campaign.
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Culprits look for allowing escape of the ex-minister in Peru |
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| Rómulo León Alegría, the minister of Fishing in the first government of Alan García, in Peru, finds runaway. |
Lima, Peru
Agencies
The chief of the Police Anticorruption of Peru, general David Paulet, made responsible this week to the Judicial Power of the escape of the ex-minister Rómulo León Alegría, accused of corruption, on having pointed out that this institution took a long time to express the detention order against the politician marked of illicit departments to favor the company Discover Petroleum in a lots tender.
On Monday, the 13th, the Justices of the supreme court and of the Top Court of Lima, Francisco Távara and Ángel Romero, respectively, they blamed to the National Police for have followed nor located to León Alegría on the same night of Sunday, the 5th of October, after the diffusion of a few audios that revealed the illegal agreements that he adopted with Alberto Químper, ex-official of Perupetro, for the awarding of petroleum lots.
The apprehension orders against León and Químper went out on Monday, the 6th in the evening, one day after spread the denunciation of the journalist Fernando Rospigliosi in the program Fourth Power, of America Television.
It emptied his accounts
Meanwhile, it was revealed that Rómulo León Alegría emptied his bank accounts on the same Monday in the morning, foreseeing that would dictate detention order in his against, as the president Alan García had asked for it the previous night.
“ It is still not known how much it withdrew in whole, but the first reports of the raising of the bank secret would indicate that it was supplied of approximately 100 thousand dollars”, The Republic of this capital spread a report of the newspaper.
According to sources of the district attorney's office "León Alegría did several bank movements in the morning, personally or turn of relatives and friends, which now are investigated".
On this matter, The Republic announced that one of the persons who collaborated with León Alegría for this activity was a Lida Paola Casuso, his niece and personal secretary. “She withdrew 54 thousand dollars of an account of León Alegría in the credit Bank, using a power of attorney”, he said.
Casuso was interrogated by the district attorney's office. She justified herself saying that it was not the first time that was doing this order for his uncle, and that it did not attract attention of him to do it now.
The chief of the Police Peruvian Anticorruption, general David Paulet, indicated that the dawn of October 6 they did not watch the house of León Alegría because they did not inform them that it had committed a crime.
" If they (the Judicial Power) say that we are guilty: then why did not they extract the apprehension order at the moment of acquaintance the fact? They us must have given the order to the minute that they proclaimed the detention, because after there was no detention order his right had been damaged to the freedom without having knowledge of that has committed an illicit penalty", Paulet justified himself.
Daughter defends herself
Meanwhile the daughter of the fugitive, who is a conferee of his party, the APRA, declared the press that “a thing is Rómulo León and another Luciana León”, having answered for his supposed link with the business of his father.
Luciana León expressed his disposal at that should raise his bank secret and to meet where they summon it to be investigated.
| Presidents agree to defend his human rights in the USA |
Mexico and El Salvador with the emigrants
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| (Left) Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico, and Tony Saca, president of El Salvador, inspect the honor guard in the presidential residence of The Pines, in Mexico City. |
Mexico
AP
The presidents of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, and El Salvador, Tony Saca, reaffirmed on Wednesday, the 15th his commitment to protect the human rights of the emigrants.
" The free societies, must be free of everything, and you have been a leader in this brave struggle in spite of the circumstances", showed the Salvadoran chief his Mexican companion during the official reception on having initiated a visit of the State of three days for the country.
Caldron, he said that in addition to the safety, both countries share the challenges of impelling the supported economic growth, the overcoming of the poverty, the climate change and the defense of the emigrants.
" Together, El Salvador and Mexico, we must fight against the measurements that they criminalize to our emigrants, in our territories and particularly in the United States", it pointed out Caldron.
Big sack affirmed that two countries are "in the first struggle" in the defense of his citizens who emigrate.
" I am grateful to Mexico for the enormous support for our people who, for any reason, crosses this extensive and beautiful territory to look for a better life", he said.
During his visit, the Salvadoran chief met the president of the Supreme Court, Guillermo Ortiz, came to the Senate, took part in a meeting of the International Association of Broadcasting and met with the Mexican Managerial Council of Exterior Commerce.
Against the bands
On the other hand, on Tuesday, the 14th, the government of the United States assigned 2,6 million dollars to brake the bands in El Salvador.
The understanding letter was signed by the ambassador of the United States, Charles L. Glazer, and the minister of Public Safety and Justice of El Salvador, René Figueroa.
The ambassador told that the help that will have validity for one year, will be focused to improve the capacities of investigation, intelligence, community alertness, handling of prisons, prevention and social work.
Figueroa qualified the agreement like "another very significant step to consolidate a regional strategy antibands". El Salvador is redoubling efforts to prepare and to fight to the bands in order to reduce the crime and the violence that they produce, it added.
According to Figueroa, "the topic of the bands is a transnational phenomenon and it has to be tackled therefore in a regional way".
Glazer said that the transnational bands "threaten the safety" with El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico and the United States, and pointed out that "in El Salvador, as well as in the rest of Central America, the negative effects of the activities of the bands are much more clear every day". |
