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Colombia accuses Chávez before the United Nations |
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| The Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez greets his followers in Acarigua, Venezuela, on Sunday, the 8th, shortly after throwing his radial speech “Aló Presidente“. PHOTO: Press office of Miraflores / AP |
Bogota
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The constant threats of the president Hugo Chávez, the Colombian government decided on Wednesday, the 11th to present the Security Council of the United Nations to the president Hugo CAnte, a document in which it exhibits that the Venezuelan chief has threatened Colombia with the use of the force.
American increases his preEn a bulletin expressed by the Colombian chancellery, they informs that the diplomatic representative in the UNO, Claudia Blum, delivered to Thomas Mayr-Harting, president of the Security Council, a note in which they explain themselves “the threats of Venezuela of the use of the force against Colombia and other sensitive aspects”.
The note requests that his content is known “by all the Member states of the Security Council of the United Nations”.
The Colombian reaction was provoked by a Chávez declaration, last Sunday in his program Aló Presidente, when he said: "Let's not lose one day in our principal mission: to prepare ourselves for the war and to help the people to be prepared for the war, because it is a responsibility of all”.
In turn, the Minister of Defence, Gabriel Silva, without mentioning the word Venezuela or Chávez was grateful for the legislative support, beyond the political differences, “before the tense situations and before sometimes complex declarations to that they listen in other latitudes”.
The minister said in the day that Bogota was not answering and that “it has been characterized by this serenity” in the diplomacy.
This week different Colombian sectors proved to be alert because Chávez had declared on Sunday, the 8th that his country had to prepare for itself for a possible clash armed with Colombia and that it indicated it would be encouraged by the United States, the political antagonist of the Venezuelan leader.
At the edge of the dawn of this Wednesday Chávez complained because “it was accused by all sides of that ‘I am calling to the war’” and allowed to make out that it had been an interpreted evil.
The new declaration was got by legislators like a good step.
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Berlin celebrates fall of the Wall
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| The Soviet ex-leader (left) Mikhail Gorbachev, the ex-president of Poland, Lech Walesa (center), and the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, goes to the ex-German border where the Wall of Berlin was getting up, on Monday, the 9th. Photo: Herbert Knosowski / AP |
Thousands of jubilant Germans evoked the electrifying moment of the fall of the wall of Berlin, with 1.000 pieces of dominoes of more than two meters high that fell down one after other one along the route that was following the missing symbol of the Cold War.
The spectacle – qualified by the organizers as a metaphor for the way in which the real wall fell down on Monday, the 9th of November of 20 years ago, and the later destruction of other communist governments in oriental Europe - was one of different events to commemorate the anniversary and to celebrate the deep change that it generated not only in Germany, but in Europe and in the whole world.
The chancellor Angela Merkel – the first leader of the reunified Germany that grew in the communist oriental area - qualified the moment of the fall of the wall like an "epic" moment in the history.
“ For me, it was one of the happiest moments of my life”, he stood out.
Previously, Merkel and the Soviet ex-leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed an ex-border fortified on Monday, the 9th in the middle of acclamations of: “Gorby! Gorby!”, before a multitude of grateful Germans who remembered the fall of the wall.
Merkel began the ceremonies in a moment of prayers along with the president Horst Koehler and other authorities in a temple of once Oriental Berlin of meeting of opposing activists in 1989.
IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END
The fortified border of East Germany fell down the night of November 9, 1989 after 28 years.
Guenter Schabowski member of the Politburó said that East Germany was suspending the prohibition to the trips for his border with West Germany.
An inhabitants' big quantity of Oriental Berlin they went towards the frontier crossings. On having met opposite to multitudes enormous and lacking in instructions, the frontier guards opened the accesses.
Brazil
Gigantic blackout
Brazil emerged on Wednesday, the 11th dawn of a massive blackout that left in the dark the cities biggest and filled with the country, while the principal hydroelectric Itaupú plant worked again. The blackout affected the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, which they stayed completely without light during more than three hours from 10:15 p.m. of Tuesday, the 10th. The meter in two cities was paralyzed, the cell phones stopped working turning into a chaos.
Bolivia
Certificate for transsexuals
In Bolivia the police express the identity cards and till now it was forcing the travestis to appear in the photo in accordance with his sex. With the norm, these will be able to show his woman's face although they will have to support his masculine name. Deysi governing Dinatelle Feminine of the Organization of Travestis, Transgéneros and Transsexuals of Bolivia (Otraf) pointed out that this agreement will allow that the community that it represents will be able to obtain his certificate “without being ill-treated”.
Honduras
They murder opponents
Two assassins in a motorcycle killed to shots on Tuesday, the 10th José Eduardo Callejas, brother of the ex-president Rafael Leonardo Callejas (1990-1994) – at present conferee for the opposing National Party - in the Honduran capital. The mayor of the same party, Nelson Javier Portillo, also died on Monday, the 9th in the central region of Honduras, in another offense.
Nicaragua
With Russia
Russia and Nicaragua signed on Tuesday, the 10th an understanding memorandum for 6,6 million dollars for works of defusing of mines and teams to attend to emergency situations as the happened ones recently during the hurricane Gone.
Peru
It spies for Chile
A subofficial of intelligence of the Air Force of Peru (FAP) was discovered spying for Chile, for which the Public Department, with knowledge of the high spheres of the Executive, would denounce formally in the next hours for the serious treachery crime the homeland.
Mexico
266 years of prison
Two ex-police officers of the city of Mexico were sentenced to 266 years of prison each one by the crime of sequestration committed against the proprietor of exchange offices and his family, he informed on Thursday, the 12th the of the capital Lawyer's office. Despite the dictated condemnation, the maximum sorrow of prison that is fulfilled in Mexico is 60 years. |
