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Barack Obama "outraged" by murder in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Barack Obama, expressed his outrage at the killing in Juarez, Mexico, three people linked to the U.S. consulate in the border city.
The three victims are an employee of the consulate and her husband, both Americans, and Mexican spouse of another employee.

Apparently there were two separate attacks. U.S. officials said the victims were shot gun while driving in different parts of the city, said a U.S. official told the BBC on condition of anonymity, citing privacy considerations.

The U.S. government authorized the families of consular staff in six Mexican border cities can be sent outside the area.

Obama promised the U.S. would work tirelessly with Mexican authorities to bring the murderers to justice and to break the power of drug trafficking organizations that are killing innocent people.

The U.S. president noted that this was a shared responsibility, particularly for border communities in both countries.

The Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico joined in the condemnation by the Barack Obama.

Through a Foreign Ministry statement warned that the country's authorities will "work with determination to clarify the circumstances in which the events took place and bring to justice those responsible."

The Mexican government said it is committed to ensuring the integrity of all persons, "not only of the diplomatic staff.
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"The death of people linked to the United States consulate occurs a few days before President Felipe Calderón to visit Ciudad Juarez for the third time in just over a month," said BBC News correspondent, Alberto Najar.

"The president's trip is scheduled for Tuesday and the intention is to monitor the progress of the special plan of his government to combat crime in the border city, considered one of the most violent in the world."

Mexican President Felipe Calderón also condemned the killing of people connected to the Consulate.

In a statement the presidency of Mexico was committed to investigating and solving the crimes that occurred on Saturday in the border city.

President Calderón "expresses its indignation and condemns the fact that three people related to the United States consulate in Ciudad Juarez killed yesterday," says the document.

Mexico has lived in the past few hours an intense day of intemperance. In the southern state of Guerrero 13 people died violently, including several policemen.
Families were
The State Department authorized government employees in six U.S. consulate in northern Mexico to send their families out of the area due to concerns about the rise of drug-related violence.
The six are consulates in the border cities of Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez, Nogales, Monterrey and Matamoros.
"The president is deeply shocked and outraged by the news," said the spokesman of the National Security Council White House, Mike Hammer, in a statement.
The U.S. statement did not provide details of the incident nungún in Chiguagua Ciudad Juarez, where last year more than 2,600 people died in violence associated with drug trafficking.

Recent violent attacks have led to the United States Embassy in Mexico City to advise American citizens to defer all travel is not necessary to the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, the statement said State Department reported Sunday.


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Barack Obama indignant by murder in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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The wife of U.S. president will travel to Mexico City between 13 and 15 April to meet with Margarita Zavala to discuss the promotion of education, will be his first official trip alone to a foreign country

Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. President, has chosen Mexico for his first official visit abroad alone between 13 and 15 April next.

According to the White House has confirmed the visit of U.S. first lady will end not only to record the "deep ties" between Mexico and the U.S. but also continue to enter into dialogue last February in Washington with the wife of the president of Mexico, Margarita Zavala, in education and economic and social development through both sides of the border.

During their last meeting at the White House in February, Margarita Zavala, Michelle Obama talked about the enormous problem of drug addiction that afflicts both nations, health problems among children and youth, the situation of immigrants, the problem of obesity and diabetes.

The aim of the visit, according to the press office of the White House, will be well to "record of commitment" that Obama has assumed the administration to "advance an agenda of mutual respect between both nations."

According to information from Office of the President, some of the topics to be discussed between Obama and Zavala are child health, obesity and addiction among others.


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Chileans experienced they worst week
The other war

Kathryn Bigelow makes history on film

She made history by becoming the first woman to win the Oscar for best director in the 82 years they have been giving these awards.

"It's the most important moment of my life," said Kathryn Bigelow, whose film "The Hurt Locker" ( "In Hostile Land") was raised with six statues of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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The reporter (J) said that the success of Bigelow means a radical change of fortune since his previous films had gone completely unnoticed by the academy.

But Bigelow decided to gamble in style with "The Hurt Locker", a film partially funded convinced herself that no major studio would allow him the creative freedom she needed, adds Savage.

The result was that the film took awards for best editing, original screenplay, sound editing and sound mixing defeating the giant blockbuster "Avatar," director James Cameron, Bigelow's former husband, who left with just three: photography, visual effects and art direction.

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Some have described the contest between Bigelow and Cameron as a clash of the titans as the tapes of both competing for nine awards, but the same director had said he only wanted the best picture and give him his ex-wife the best director .

Bigelow made the film, a war drama set in Iraq, with a cast of unknowns "for the audience not imagine which of the three main characters would die based on the reputation" of the actors.

And instead of deciding to shoot in the Arizona desert, the filmmaker chose to Jordan, despite having to work at temperatures up to 46 degrees Celsius.

The result won over the critics for the "sharpness convincing action sequences" and "deep study of heroism", but many criticized the decision of the director not to assume ideological point of view regarding the war Iraq, as noted by Mark Savage.

According to the filmmaker, one of his intentions was to recreate the drama of the soldiers in a war, something that in their opinion, the U.S. media fails to reflect.

Kathryn Bigelow was born in 1951 in San Carlos, California. His father ran a paint factory and his mother was a librarian.

The director is described as a shy girl who poured all their anxieties in artistic creation, especially in the arts. "Painting is a bit elitist, while the film crosses cultures and classes," he said.

In adolescence Bigelow attended the Art Institute of San Francisco and received classes on film critic Susan Sontag at Columbia University in New York.

And, says Savage, the composition of the scenes in his movies, you can see their training as a painter.

His films, full of action, reflect the life of a person who likes action, who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and scuba diving.

He has made films about vampires Near dark (When darkness falls, 1987), the Cold War K-19 The Widowmaker (K-19, 2002) and thrillers like Strange Days (Strange Days, 1995).

Before Bigelow only three women were nominated for an Oscar for Best Director: Lina Wertmuller for "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" in 1977 and Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 1993, and Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation" in 2003.

But despite its current position in the history of the Oscars, Bigelow did not yield to the feminist label, says Mark Savage.

"I love strong women," she said in an interview. "However, just as men inspire me."

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Argentina Reclama lo que le pertenese

Chileans experienced they worst week

Santiago de Chile, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) Chilean live out its worst week after suffering the biggest earthquake in its history, and time-past the initial emergency-will face the enormous challenge of recovery and reconstruction.

From the nearby port of Valparaiso to Conception, the second largest city, located 500 kilometers south of Santiago, the quake triggered massive landslides, panic, injuries and a still-undetermined number of dead and missing.

The government set up the date, in 452 fatal victims identified by the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis. Physical damage to the country are estimated at 30 billion dollars.

Approximately 50 percent of Chileans live in the devastated areas, declared state of emergency and disaster by President Michelle Bachelet, a measure authorizing military presence-security tasks, including curfew and distribution of assistance.

Towards the end of the week, improved land connectivity of this long and narrow country, increased aid to more isolated places, consisting of clean water, food, blankets, tents and other items to those who had lost not only family but also their homes , goods, ie, everything.

In many areas still lack electricity, water and fuel. The telephone-including mobile-phone interruptions suffered and suffered. In Chile, all these basic services are run by private companies.

All television reporters deployed into the country to show the devastating effects of the earthquake, its aftershocks and many of the tsunamis that swept through fishing villages.

Perhaps unintentionally, in rare scenes also revealed the degree of insecurity in many Chileans living inside the country before the disaster.

A few days after the earthquake, many countries responded to the call for assistance from the government and sent and installed field hospitals, generators, water purification, satellite phones and money, support, culminating this weekend with the presence of Secretary General UN, Ban Ki-moon, who liberated 10 million dollars to Chile.

This first week, Chileans sought to resolve their most pressing needs, but also wondered how the national recovery face the future government of Sebastián Piñera, who will take the next March 11.

Bachelet spoke in the palace of La Moneda Pinera, in a meeting prompted by the need to transfer relevant information about the earthquake.

After two hours of conversation, said that political differences are now moving a second, third or fourth level, the challenge of rebuilding the country and added that "guaranteed the continuity of government action in areas hardest hit.

"My government will meet its obligations until the last day, but also do everything in their power to facilitate the installation of the new authorities, because I think all of Chile believes that time is unity, solidarity and generosity, "he added.

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Chileans experienced they worst week

The other war

Havana (Noticiero) As elusive ghost, citadina violence causes more deaths today in the world to the unjust wars of the present and creates a particularly serious situation in Latin America.

According to a forum held in Lima, Peru, on 9 February, one of the main bases of the phenomenon in this region is that much of "the poorest quintile among young people" (according to Wikipedia, the fifth of a statistical population sorted from lowest to highest) is not economically active or study, especially in the female gender. "

Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said here that only 32.4 percent of young women, with up to three years of school, have jobs, a percentage that rises to 53 between those who complete primary and secondary.

It also found that "the consequences of a weak labor market insertion of young people are multiple, including low income, another of the many expressions of inequality.

All of the above "perpetuates inequality and intergenerational transmission of poverty", the "misuse of resources invested in education and social disintegration," he added.

Because "education influences the future employability of young people", ECLAC recommends investing in it and in job training.

This will limit the negative effects that are in sight as possible, but both qualitative political changes are required.

The Latin American Information Agency recently embodied the concern that "the specter of violence plaguing Latin America," without a "country or social gap that is safe," so that there seems no place of refuge.

"Even after the walls of the sacred home", he added, "grows the aggression against the weak, children, or on the elderly and women."

Roberto Briceño León, in Sociology of violence in Latin America, defines it as "meet death at the corner of the house", but also can be added inside.

In his work, published in 2007 by headquarters Ecuador, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Briceño notes that the unemployment rate for young Latin Americans in 2003 was 15.7 percent, more than double that among adults, those affected at 6.7 percent.

But in 2009 unemployment was 8.3 percent regionally, on average, and continued to weigh, the more weight on youth and women, a population factor of national life in each country.

Statistics cited by the author reveal that in the world at the beginning of the decade, 565 were killed every day young people aged between 10 and 29 years for a murder rate of 9.2 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002 occurred about 520 thousand homicides globally each year to a rate of 8.8 murders per 100 thousand inhabitants.

In contrast, only produced about 310 thousand victims in military actions, which represented 5.2 per every 100 thousand inhabitants.

Europe had the lowest homicide statistics, with one per 100 thousand, followed by America with 11, Africa and Latin America with 17.6 to 34.6, scene of the biggest problem.

The WHO estimated as higher global rates in 2002 the Latin American countries like Colombia with 84.4, El Salvador with 50.2, 32.5 Brazil and Mexico with 15.3.

Around the same time, the Inter-American Development Bank considered that 28.7 percent of all homicides in Latin America then as victims were young people aged 10 and 19 years, a reality that gets worse instead of better.

Briceño notes, meanwhile, that one of the major sources of violence is based on the "inability to match the prescribed roles" for that age group, especially at the beginning of adolescence.

The author adds that in Latin America had at the beginning of the decade about 58 million poor youth, of which 21 million were in extreme poverty, with higher incidence among women, leading to a deteriorating reality.

With regard to violence, believes that "men exercise it and suffer" more in a world where the homicide rate, according to WHO, is among them, 19 per 100 thousand inhabitants and only four per 100 thousand among women.

During 2002, the American men had 12 times more likely than women to die murdered in Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela, 11 in Ecuador, 10 in Brazil and six in Costa Rica.

Among the reasons are listed as aggravated trafficking in drugs, alcohol and possession of firearms, which facilitates and lethality caused annually in 2004, over 200 thousand deaths in these media "in no event warfare "and 300 thousand in the unjust wars.

Weapons produced by "more than a thousand companies in 98 countries around the world," even contribute to Latin America with the highest number of homicides for this cause and show a rate three times that of Africa, five times that of North America or Central Europe and east, and is 48 times larger than Western Europe.

Equally, femicide, trafficking and trafficking of women reflect a trend that the Central American Integration System and the Spanish Cooperation Agency in Madrid considered with "category epidemic in Central America.

Throughout the area, the number of such deaths doubled between 2003 and 2009 with over five thousand murders in Guatemala, in this case since 2000 - followed by Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.

While the female leads in the insignificant figures, adds instead a growing number of victims, high at 160 per cent between 2003 and 2007, whereas for males then increased only at 50 percent.

It is considered that this is enhanced by "the use of firearms, trafficking and trafficking in women - with" primarily for sexual exploitation - and the coexistence of "sale of children born in the context of trafficking ".

On February 16, news media reported from Mexico, Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, was declared "disaster area" because "terror seized" of everyday life.

The state Congress chief, Maria Avila Serna, said there that "the stories are frightening," because "there are families who no longer even go to restaurants, for fear that drug traffickers they pulled off their daughters, if they like , although they are minors.

Given this, then developed military Coordinated Operation Chihuahua, whose scheme was based on "territorial control" and actions against vehicles without license plates or that the Americans had, and in bars, taverns and brothels.

A report by the Woodrow Wilson International Center reflects that the Secretary General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza, recently revealed that this region, with only eight percent of the world population in 2009 was 40 per cent of firearm homicides and 66 percent of kidnappings in the world.

It recognized that the homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean twice in the present world average, although in some countries quintupled.

In this regard he added that organized crime, drug trafficking and other evils have a transnational, with increasing magnitude across the continent and manifestations as actual drug trafficking, kidnapping, weapons proliferation and human trafficking.

This comes as a progressive state, since when poverty began to deepen regional urban macrocephaly in the second half of the twentieth century.

While it is argued that life expectancy tended to rise from 50 to 70 years, it is also true that a generation of parents migrating to cities in search of a better future which then caused the explosion in the hills Caracas, violence in the favelas of Rio and, finally, the fight for survival in Latin American cities.

In 1950, only 41 percent of Latin America's population lived in cities, but in 2000 the percentage had risen to 75, almost twice statistically.

But this was not a reflection only of migration, but also a growing urban population was 69 million at mid-century in Latin America and the Caribbean 391 million in 2000, an increase of 332 million city dwellers.

By then the region was barely between 161 and 175 million people, but now exceeds 550 million and, according to projections, will rise to 695 million by 2025 and 794 million in 2050, alarming expectation if not modified expansion violence.

In this context, WHO considers that the murders are, without doubt, a serious public health problem, with an even greater dimension than wars.

Not always recognized, however, affect how the deficiencies in the population statistics of violence in Latin America the most unequal region in the world.

In 2009, ECLAC reported that regional poverty increased by 1.1 percent and extreme poverty by 0.8 in relation to 2008 and that, as a result, the poor rose from 180 to 189 million (34.1 percent of the population) and the indigent from 71 to 76 million (13.7 percent), to roll back even very insufficient progress achieved between 2002 and 2007.

Again increasing insecurity and crisis adds to population growth, urban concentration in the last 60 years, the economic and social inequality correlated, and a silent war, as reflected in statistics, triggered by poverty.

Additional info: @ Noticias Minuto a Minuto.

Argentina pide a las ONU ayuda sobre Malvinas
Argentine government debt to pay Central Bank reserves despite court ruling

Argentine government debt to pay Central Bank reserves despite court ruling

Argentina President Cristina Fernandez, said Thursday that public debt will be paid with Central Bank reserves despite a Supreme Court decision barring the use of funds from bank top to form the Bicentennial Fund (phobia ).

The president said Argentina national chain for radio and television that "the debts that this president wants, and will pay, with the Central Bank reserves, as part of what the Constitution says and the Central Bank charter, it are deposited in the accounts of Economy (Ministry of Economy).

The presidential decree provides for the use of central bank reserves to create the Phobia and then to use the funds to pay the debt, was suspended by Federal Judge Claudia Rodriguez Vidal Argentina, judicial sources said Thursday.

The president had ordered on Monday the Central Bank to the Treasury send four thousand 382 million dollars with the purpose of paying the debt.

According to judicial sources, the decision of the judge will be released Thursday and is expected to appeal the Government as soon as possible.

"The resolution is signed but has not yet been publicly reported because they are not parties," the source said.

The judge suspended the decree repealed considered similar to the president last Monday and replaced by two others.

The court decision blocking the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) that creates the Argentine Debt Relief Fund, for the termination of services of private debt holders for 2010.

The president signed a decree on Monday along with another, which the Treasury affected other 2 thousand 187 million dollars that will be used to cancel liabilities with multilateral lending agencies.

Fernandez signed these decrees repealed after last December that held back the creation of the Bicentennial Fund IV with 6 mil $ 569 million of currency reserves.
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Nuevo sismo de 5,8 en Chile genera pánico en zona costera

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted this Wednesday the Chilean city of Concepcion again creating panic among a population that has not recovered from the 8.8 earthquake last Saturday.

After the zone authorities issue a tsunami alert for Concepcion, Valparaiso and Talcahuano, Onemi spokesmen said at a news conference that the magnitude of the earthquake was not enough to generate large waves that threaten the coastal zone of Chile.

According to authorities the quake was centered 42 km northeast of the city of Concepción.

"We are based on information from the official body that indicates no conditions to generate a tsunami warning along the coast of Chile," a spokesman Onemi.

The spokesman called on the population to remain calm, "is a reproduction, not for the scale to produce a tsunami. The department has indicated that this figure does not cause a tsunami," he added.

The police and Fire Department initially requested the villagers and journalists at the scene the eviction of low-lying areas to avoid risk.

Emergency agencies were called to calm the population and remain vigilant to the statements of authorities.

TeleSUR's special envoy in Concepcion, Sergio de Arco, reported that the climate we live in the city is desperate. "Although people were screaming that it is an alarm, others do not want to believe, for what happened with the first tsunami," he said.

"The face of fright is widespread, no one is Police traffic laws, there is more chaos than it was before," said the reporter.

He also said that it has become impossible to walk by the long lines have formed, because the people have begun leaving the city.

The coastal areas of central and southern Chile were affected by a tsunami that occurred a few hours after the powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake last Saturday. The force of the sea swept away houses, cars and everything that got in its path.

The regions of south-central Chile (Concepción, Constitution, Valparaiso) were the most affected by the tsunami on Saturday.

Another tsunami-affected areas was the port of Talcahuano, located 500 kilometers south of Santiago. At the location a strong wave reached the center of this region and caused serious material damage.
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Greece seeks to avoid bankruptcy

On Tuesday the prime minister of Greece, Giorgos Papandreou on Wednesday announced new austerity measures "to save the economy" in that country from bankruptcy.

"We are now in a state of war against bad scenarios that touch on our country," said Papandreou.

The president described the situation as "the nightmare of a bankruptcy in which the state could no longer pay even the salaries or pensions.

According to the Athens correspondent Malcolm Brabant "in recent months, Papandreou has used several dramatic phrases to describe the problems of Greece, but this is the most alarming."

On Monday, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn, has asked the Greek government new measures to reduce the deficit by four percentage points in the year: from 12.7 to 8.7% of GDP.

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Argentina Reclama lo que le pertenese
It is feared that more victims in Chile earthquake tsunami

It is feared that more victims in Chile earthquake tsunami

When marks the fourth day after the earthquake of 8.8 Richter scale that hit the south-central Chile, the official death toll is 795, but the outlook is pessimistic when observing the destruction that the tsunami left in the coastal area where there are fears that many more victims.

Also, more and more voices that suggest that the number of death caused by the tsunami after the earthquake is greater than that caused by the earthquake itself.

Towns like Iloca, Dichato, Pelluhue Constitution or in the Maule region suffered the effects of the tsunami and devastated. The giant wave came at dawn and destroyed everything in its path, including many who were not able to flee to the upper.

The Maule region recorded at least 586 dead and four missing as authorities, but this is where many communities were affected from the tsunami, some of them being destroyed up to 80%, as the case Dichato.

Journalist Maria Isabel Guzman, Radio DNA, visited the town of Parral (at 341 km south of Santiago) and was able to get information about nearby resorts and Curanipe Pelluhue, with testimonies that talk about many missing.

Orrego On the island, facing Constitution, about 300 people camped out to wait for the show called "Venetian Night" when the tsunami hit. Witnesses spoke to many people remain homeless known.

However, missing the official figures are much lower. The last known only talking about 19 people of whom remain unaccounted. President Michelle Bachelet has said that "there is a huge missing persons".

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It is feared that more victims in Chile earthquake tsunami
It is feared that more victims in Chile earthquake tsunami

Argentina pide a las ONU ayuda sobre Malvinas

Argentina pide a las Naciones Unidas para que el Reino Unido en las conversaciones sobre las Malvinas

Argentina ha pedido formalmente a las Naciones Unidas "ONU" y el Secretario General Ban Ki-moon para que el Reino Unido en las conversaciones sobre la soberanía de las Islas Malvinas y también para aplicar los resultados de ello.


Con las elecciones el próximo año debido, el gobierno no puede ser visto como dejando caer la afirmación del país, especialmente si el petróleo se encuentra en grandes cantidades, nuestro corresponsal.
Ofensiva diplomática
La Argentina y el Reino Unido fue a la guerra por las islas en 1982, después de Buenos Aires invadida.
El gobierno argentino actual ha descartado cualquier acción militar sobre las islas, pero es la intensificación de una ofensiva diplomática para intentar presionar a Londres en las negociaciones.
Buenos Aires, dice que el Reino Unido ha roto una resolución de la ONU que prohíben el desarrollo unilateral en aguas disputadas en la cual.
Una cumbre de América Latina y el Caribe concluyó en México el martes con una declaración que reafirma "el respaldo a los legítimos derechos de Argentina en la disputa de soberanía con el Reino Unido relativa a la" Cuestión Malvinas ".

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Argentina Reclama lo que le pertenese
Argentina Reclama lo que le pertenese