by the El Reportero’s news services
General Omar Torrijos
The 31 anniversary of the death of General Omar Torrijos in a supposed plane crash whose causes have not yet been fully clarified, was commemorated by the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) which he founded.
Torrijismo is not something that is said, you acts as Torrijista or not, said his son and president of the Republic Martin Torrijos Espino in the acts of remembrance made the day before.
Torrijos Espino regretted that a country like Panama, which walked along a path of progress, is taking today through an unnecessary confrontation.
Adolfo Ahumada, keynote speaker at events organized by the Omar Foundation and implemented in the mausoleum of Calzada de Amador, said that given the complicated political situation in the country it is in Torrijismo where lies the lifeline for Panama.
At the events were representatives of all the trends and the Torrijismo presidential candidates, as well as the candidates to lead the National Executive Council of the PRD.
General Omar Torrijos died 31 years ago when the aircraft he was traveling in crashed into the hill Marta, in Cocle. A youth contingent of the party went there this week to lay flowers at the bust erected in the scene.
Chávez fulfils ‘Bolívar’s dream’ with entry to Mercosur
Latin News reports: Venezuela has become the first full member to be admitted to the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) since its formation in 1991. “Mercosur is Bolívar’s machinery”, President Hugo Chávez proclaimed while celebrating the formal incorporation of Venezuela at a summit in Brasília (31 July) attended by the heads of state of the other full members, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, Argentina’s Cristina Fernández and Uruguay’s José Mujica, but not Paraguay’s Federico Franco.
The post-haste inclusion of Venezuela into Mercosur was only rendered possible by the suspension of Paraguay last June in the wake of the impeachment of Fernando Lugo (2008-2012).
Global network of infantile pornography splashes Mexico
National newspapers emphasize today here the report of American authorities on the identification of at least 140 victims of a network of infantile pornography in seven countries, between them Mexico.
According to the reports the victim of more age, located in Holland, was four years old and of less, only 19 days, whereas 43 subjects were stopped in the last two years associated with this crime, says the diary The Universal.
The band had between his members to a manager of hotel in Massachusetts, a technician of medical emergencies in Kansas and an assistant of day-care center in Holland.
The arrests began after it was detecting the exchange of explicit photographies of aggressions across Internet and even for conversations on line of the pederasts it brings over of “ kidnapping, children cook and to eat “.
It is investigated if the men who spoke about homicides and cannibalism incurred such violations or only they were exchanging perverse fantasies.
The inquiry, which continues being extended, it received Holitna’s codified name, for a river in Alaska that has many tributaries.
Another article of the newspaper about the same topic emphasized that the infantile pornography is an increasing problem in Central America, one of the centers of the industry of production, distribution and sale of this material, affirmed the Costa Rican Rocío Rodríguez, executive director of Alliance for Your Laws.
Rodríguez explained to The Universal one that, after Mexico, Brazil and Holland, Central America is an emergent market in infantile pornography, with “ a black number of production.”
According to the specialists, the use of minors in pornographic material and the submission and affront that this implies, is one of the most alarming and serious forms that reduce the dignity of girls, children and teenagers. (Prensa Latina contributed to this report).
