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| Students in hunger strike in Caracas demand an international investigation on the opponents' pursuit on the part of the government of the president Hugo Chávez. PHOTO: Carlos Hernández / AP |
Fabiola Sánchez
Caracas / AP
Approximately 163 university students of 11 cities are supported in hunger strike to press the General Secretary of the OEA, José Miguel Insulza, so that it interyields before the government and the visit is allowed to the country of a commission to evaluate the situation of the human rights and of the called "political prisoners".
The protest, which began on Thursday with 10 students who settled opposite to the building where the offices of the OEA are in Caracas, has extended another ten cities, where approximately 163 young people is supported for several days alone with oral hydration, there indicated on Wednesday, the 29th the student leader, Angel Arellano.
Some demonstrators in the oriental state Anzoátegui carried to extremes on Wednesday the protest after part of his lips was sewed, according to images that the channel of news Globovisión spread.
“ This is not any circus”, he declared the press Arellano on having rejected the affirmation that there realized on Wednesday the Education Secretary, Héctor Navarro, who considered the strike to be a “assembly mediático” that looks for the "destabilization".
Arellano pointed out that the young people will support the protest until of a “international answer on the problem of the human rights”, and the Inter-American Commission of Human rights (CIDH) “takes part on the problem” closely of 39 opponents that it is supported arrested accused of such crimes like “alteration of the public order”, “serious injuries” to police officers and “instigation to commit an offense”.
“ The only thing for that we ask is that José Miguel Insulza declares himself, that the CIDH is pronounced, and that (Insulza) requests the permission the Venezuelan government to enter the country”, said 21-year-old Jorge Márquez, who is one of 10 university students who initiated the hunger strike on September 24 opposite to the OEA.
Of the group of alone Márquez he remains four young people because six of his partners were extracted in ambulance between Tuesday and Wednesday after descompensarse by the long fasting period.
| Hundreds of dead persons for typhoon and floods |
The Philippines under the waters
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| Thousands of Filipinos travel with the water up to the breast on Sunday, the 27th, in the Cainta quarter, to the east of Manila, the capital struck by the worst floods in 40 years. photo: Mike Alquinto / AP |
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The number of deaths for the floods in the Philippines exceeded the 400 on Thursday, the 1st of October and at the end of this edition it kept on increasing, while the rescuers' bands kept on rescuing corpses of the large rivers and thousands of persons were continuing without receiving supplies or basic services.
The authorities arranged the emplacement of police reinforcements to avoid the plundering repetition in the populations left by his inhabitants, as the frustration grows between those who lost his housings and belongings.
The numbers of the victims were growing of to hundreds in distribution centers of help, as the waters were stepping back and more persons were coming to look for food, drinking water, dry clothes and shelter.
The tropical thunderstorm Ketsana caused floods in the capital and bordering areas that affected the housings of almost 1,9 million persons the weekend.
The president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo admitted that it remained overwhelmed, but it clarified that it was doing everything what was to his scope to help.
In the nearby Vietnam, Ketsana caused the death of at least 23 persons.
The overwhelmed authorities have asked for international help, warning that they might lack enough resources to resist another thunderstorm, which according to the meteorologists is located to the east of the nation archipelago and it might strike it even this Friday, the 2nd of October.
Bolivia
Voters' record
The registered persons quantity in the electoral records overcame the night of Monday, the 28th of September 4 million voters for the elections of December 6, a record that overcomes the forecasts, reported Luis Pereira, the director of the Biometric Electoral roll, program dependent on the Electoral Organ. The inscriptions will close on October 15.
Argentina
Meteorite falls down
A meteorite crossed the sky between the province of Mendoza and The Pampa causing a strong explosion that shivered the soil and left a big circular stela of smoke that was supported for several hours, Sunday, the 27th of September.
Mexico
Assassins kill Canadians
A group of armed men murdered two citizens Canadian – identified like Gordon Douglas Kendall and Ivans Ronald Jeffrey - in a building of departments where they were staying, in the Mexican tourist city of Port Vallarta, on Saturday, the 25th.
Colombia
Offer of the FARC
The FARC supported the commitment to liberate Pablo Emilio Moncayo and José Daniel Calvo, two military men who support captive, according to a bulletin spread on Sunday, the 27th. The senator opponent Piedad Córdoba repeated this week that at the latest in one month Moncayo and Bald person would return to the freedom.
Guatemala
They extradite drug traffickers
The Public Department of Guatemala informed that Luis Alfonso Alonzo Pérez, Miguel Bolaños Acevedo and Jorge Luis Cordón Oliva accused in a court of the USA of dealing cocaine to Texas and of being linked by the Mexican cartel of the Gulf, were dedicated to American authorities.
Chile
Son of Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet Hiriart, elder son of the deceased dictator Augusto Pinochet was interrogated on Tuesday, the 28th by a judge as regards a supposed embezzlement related to the dark origin of the funds of his father (US$26 million), in a closed judgment 16 years ago.
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