by the El Reportero’s wire services
Daniel Ortega
Moscow, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, reaffirmed today the conviction that Russian firms will take part actively in the construction of an interoceanic canal linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans through his country.
“We are certain that firms from Russia will be involved in the great work of the canal through Nicaragua,” he said in a TV broadcast interview released here.
Ortega told Russia Today TV channel that firms from the People’s Republic of china and other nations, grouped in a firm created in Hong Kong that is already operating, are involved in the project.
He said that with the return to power of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Nicaragua established from 2007 a longstanding relation with the Russian Federation, which has undoubtedly mean a great relief for Nicaragua because this is a cooperation that values the Nicaraguan people in all fields.
Top Colombian narco falls in Argentina
News from LatinNews Daily Report — ‘Mi Sangre’ (Henry de Jesús López Londoño) was captured on Oct. 30 by members of the Argentine intelligence service, Secretaría de Inteligencia (SI, formerly Side), while he was dining with his wife and several guards at an upscale restaurant in Pilar, a wealthy Buenos Aires suburb.
Colombian government and Farc stay true to their style in Oslo
“In Colombia, what people want most is peace, and so we have to ask the Farc [Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia] to respect the civilian population,” Vice-President Angelino Garzón said during a press conference this week. Peace has a chance and now it also has a place and date when Colombia could get a step closer to achieving it: on 15 November in Havana, the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the leadership of the Farc will begin the formal dialogue process that was officially launched last week in Oslo.
Multinationals interested in searching for oil in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Prensa Latina) The German multinational Statoil, Spanish Repsol and British BG Group are interested in searching for petroleum in Honduras, as confirmed by Roberto Herrera, presidential advisor and expert in international rights.
According to what has been published by local digital media laprensa.hn, elheraldo.hn and latribuna.hn, the three multinational companies have bought information obtained by the Norwegian firm Petroleum Geophysics that has made oil explorations in Honduran waters.
The names of the companies were revealed soon after the government announced to have started dialogues to decide if they could start in the extraction of petroleum in their Caribbean territorial waters.
The vice-president and minister of the Presidency, María Antonieta Guillén de Bográn, explained that the concession for the search of petroleum in the Caribbean will be made inside the current legal frame and with benefits for the country.
