by the El Reportero’s news service
Nicaragua starts today a campaign to pay tribute to outstanding poet Ruben Darío, running until February 6, 2016, when the 100th death anniversary of the considered Father of Modernism will be celebrated.
Nicaraguans will recall the also known as Prince of Castilian Letters with concerts, contests and a special educational program that prioritize the study and knowledge of his work.
The 13th Ruben Dario International Symposium, vital and life journalist, was held in January in Leon, a city where the poet spent his childhood, as part of the celebration on occasions of the 148th birth anniversary.
The program of the symposium, to which Latin American and European intellectuals attended, included lectures on his literary and journalistic work, concerts, and tours of historic interest sites such as the museum and the archive named after him.
Mexico: Call for DNA testing bodies dumped in crematorium
The Attorney General’s Office (FGE) reported that 32 people who hired the services of the crematorium Pacific SA de CV, where 60 bodies were found Friday, requested DNA samples to confirm that the bodies match their deceased relatives.
On Saturday, hundreds of families came to the Prosecutor to request information and ask to let them see the bodies found in this abandoned in the Mexican port of Acapulco, located in Guerrero state, on the road Cayacao-Puerto Marqués crematorium.
One is Luciano Hernández, who signed the January 17, 2014 a package of revelation and incineration for his wife, Aremis Palacios. Now, Hernández did not know if the ashes urn given to you are those of his wife or just a handful of earth.
Argentine experts working with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) of Mexico in investigating the case of 43 students disappeared on September 26 in southern Mexico, claimed that there are errors that affect the versions offered so far.
According to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), the PGR has not considered factors affecting the evidence and “make it impossible to still offer a conclusive version of the fate of the normal school”.
Mexico’s Electoral Institute ready to face insecurity
President of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute Lorenzo Córdova said the institution is ready for the mid-elections in June, despite insecurity in states like Guerrero and Tamaulipas.
In remarks to the press, he said the National Electoral Institute is focusing on the matter, which is, unfortunately, “not a new situation but a problem we have faced before and we know how to deal with.”
He added the Institute has a decentralized structure and its counselors and officers live in and know the areas in which they operate; this “provides great adaptability to facing daily difficulties.”
Córdova added that coordination with authorities is being made to ensure the safety of those who will participate in the June 7th elections, where more than 1.25 poll workers will operate voting sites.
“We will do everything we can to comply with the mandate, which means sometimes we will eventually have to make procedures more flexible, like in the state of Guerrero”, he said.
