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Honduras
Emergency for rains
The authorities expressed state of emergency in the region due to the strong rains that have provoked overflowings of several rivers of the country. "Red alert was decreed in the whole basin of the river Ulúa that forces to the evacuation", said on Tuesday, the 30th the chief of operations of the Permanent Commission of Risks, Randolfo Funez. The waters of the Ulúa tune in to other rivers that move throughout the country like the Goascorán, on the southern border with El Salvador.
Guatemala
More poverty
The World Program of Food warned that Guatemala stepped back a decade, then that half a million Guatemalans fell down below the line of the poverty due to the increase of prices of the food. The study pointed out that the poverty indicator increased from 51 to 56 per cent while that of extreme poverty spent from 15 to 19 per cent in the last two years.
Venezuela
They kill student leader
The president of the Federation of University Centers of the University of the state Zulia, Julio Soto, political opponent to the government, was murdered of several shots when it was moving in a van for an avenue of the western city of Maracaibo, informed the 1st Wednesday the director of the Police of this city, commissioner José González. Copse died as a consequence of several shots, which also hurt another university student who was accompanying to Copse.
Colombia
Ex-district attorney to the jail
A penal judge revoked the 1st Wednesday the home detention and ordered to imprison an ex-district attorney, brother of the Secretary of the Interior, who is investigated by supposed bonds with a recognized paramilitary drug trafficker. A district attorney delegated before the Supreme Court, Angela Buitrago, had asked that Guillermo Valencia Cossio, brother of the minister Fabio Valencia Cossio, be imprisoned in a penitentiary, "on having thought that the nature of the crimes was becoming necessary the seclusion in a prison center".
Peru
They deny disappearances
The government and the armed forces denied the 1st Wednesday, accusations for the disappearance of 11 persons after a recent military men clash with guerrilla remnants of Luminous Footpath, in a forest Ayacucho sector. "No civil injured man or missing person exists", made sure the Minister of Defence, Antero Florez-Aráoz.
Paraguay
Duarte insists
The ex-chief Nicanor Duarte informed the 1st Wednesday the president Fernando Lugo who will resort before the ordinary justice to try to occupy a banking in the Senate "because in the elections of last April I was chosen by the people", he affirmed in press conference.
Argentina
He does not pay 200 million dollars
The ex-chief Nicanor Duarte informed the 1st Wednesday the president Fernando Lugo who will resort before the ordinary justice to try to occupy a banking in the Senate "because in the elections of last April I was chosen by the people", he affirmed in press conference.
Argentina
Pensions fit
The Argentine Senate turned into law the 1st Wednesday a project that establishes automatic increases of the pensions two times a year taking into consideration the tributary collection and the adjustment of the wages of workpeople in activity. From 2009, approximately 5.1 millions of given a pension will be benefited by an adjustment in his money in March and September.
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| They demand 20 million dollars of rescue in waters of Somalia |
Pirates capture a ship loaded with Russian tanks |
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| The commander of the destroyer Howard, of the USA, he observes on Tuesday, the 30th while one of the helicopters of the Navy watches the ship Faina, taken Somali pirates. |
Mohamed Olad Hassan
Mogadishu, Somalia / AP
Before the alertness of a destroyer and of American planes, the spokesman of a few Somali pirates revealed to The Associated Press that his group demands 20 million dollars to liberate a cargo ship full of Russian tanks.
The spokesman also warned that the pirates will fight to death if any country tries to realize military operations to recover the vessel. A man, who said to be the captain of this one, informed that a member of the crew had died.
The pirates captured the ship Faina, of Ukrainian operators, on Thursday, the 25th opposite to the coast of Somalia, when the ship was going to Kenya with a shipment of 33 Russian tanks T-72 and big quantity of ammunitions and snacks.
The American destroyer Howard of missiles teledirigidos was remaining opposite to the Somali coast to make sure that the pirates will not withdraw the tanks, the ammunitions or other heavy armaments of the ship, since this one was anchored close to the coast.
A spokesman of V American Fleet admitted that the navy was continuing "deeply worried" for the destination of 21 members of the crew and the load of the ship.
In a gesture of slightly frequent cooperation, the Americans continued the alertness of the Faina until the missiles frigate Russian Neustrashimy, or "Intrepid", should come to the area.
Sugule Alí, spokesman of the pirates, said on Sunday, the 28th that was in the covering of the Faina when he spoke by a phone satelital. "We want the payment of the rescue, nothing more. We need 20 million dollars for the sure liberation of the ship and the crew", affirmed Alí, and warned: "If we are attacked we will defend ourselves until the last one of us dies".
Opposite versions
A source of the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the 30th that three of the pirates who keep kidnapped an Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and weapon died to shots after a discussion between them, but the captores denied the same day that there should have been a shooting on board.
Sugule Alí, pushed the version back and made sure that they were celebrating the Moslem Eid holiday to the-Fitr, in spite of being surrounded by military ships and American helicopters.
War ships
The destroyer Howard, of the American navy, armed with bullets teledirigidos, has been attentive to the ship kidnapped for several days and his crew has spoken for radio with the pirates and the crew.
On Monday, the United States located more cruises and destroyers in a radio of 10 miles of the Ukrainian cargo ship in hands of Somali pirates due to the "enormous worry" before the possibility that the tanks and other weapon fall down "in wrong hands", said the lieutenant of vessel Nathan Christensen, spokesman of the Fifth Fleet.
The Fifth Fleet said that the cargo ship was going to the Kenyan Mombasa port, although "additional informations established that the shipment was destined to Sudan".
| They torture and cut the language to victims |
They find 12 corpses along with Mexican school
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| Mexican forensic investigators observe 12 corpses. |
Elliot Spagat
Tijuana, Mexico / AP
The bodies of 11 men and a woman, some without language, appeared in an area along with a primary school on Monday, the 29th one hour before the children were entering classes, reported the authorities and indicated that in whole 18 corpses were found in 24 hours.
Municipal officials suspended the classes after finding the victims, who mostly had been tied and tortured. Some of the bodies were half-naked, informed the spokesman of the Attorney general's office of Justice of the north-western state of Low California, José Manuel Yepiz. Tijuana is adjacent to the American city of San Diego in California.
The attorney of Justice of Low California, Romel Moreno, said that to seven of the victims appeared close to the school they cercenaron the language. He added that a bag with five human languages was found close to the bodies.
" We are in war. We are in a constant struggle", indicated Dark-haired person during a press conference. He added that at least three of the victims were adolescent and that the state lawyer's office takes the investigation of the case.
Yepiz said that 12 bodies were thought along with a written message in a white pasteboard that he was saying: "This they is going to happen to all the people who walks with 'The Engineer', for big-mouthed", in possible allusion to one of the brothers Arellano Félix.
Minutes after the macabre discovery in the school, were found four corpses in another common land in the city and on Sunday, the 28th night two more in an area along with a factory.
The investigators believe that 16 of the victims were murdered by groups of conflicting drug traffickers. Others two persons were dead in fact of street crime, said Yepiz. |
