por Hannah Stone guest blogger
Florindo Eleuterio Flores Hala
The capture of “Comrade Artemio,” one of the last of the Shining Path rebels’ old guard to remain at large, is a security success for Peru’s government, but is unlikely to affect the country’s burgeoning drug trade.
On Thursday, the news emerged that Artemio, whose real name is Florindo Eleuterio Flores Hala, had been seriously wounded in the early hours of the morning. Some reports (most links are in Spanish) said he was shot by his own bodyguards, who were working for the authorities, though others said he was hit in a confrontation with the police.
He was found on Sunday morning by a military patrol, lying gravely wounded in a hut near the river Misholla, in Tocache province, San Martin region. Later that day he was flown by military helicopter to Lima. As the veteran guerrilla fighter was carried on a stretcher into a police hospital, his hands heavily bandaged, he shouted some unintelligible words and raised a fist to the watching press.
Mexican party defines candidates to deputies and senators
The VIII National Council of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) will define this Sunday the list of candidates to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate for the elections next July 1 in Mexico.
Dolores Padierna, general secretary of PRD, who will be substituted because she aspires to a post in the Senate, welcomed the new national advisors and presented the proposal to the National Advisors.
The PRD National Congress held on Saturday elected the 64 advisors missing to install the Council this Sunday.
Either one or the other activities were postponed by members of this force that claimed greater participation in the process for the selection of candidates, as well as their imposition.
The VIII National Council will take oath to the six candidates to governorships, senates, federal deputies, assemblies and chiefs of delegations, besides the ratification to presidential candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador.
Alert on possible epidemic in Honduras prison burnt down
Prisoners survivors of the fire at the Farm Prison of Comayagua, Honduras, are now at risk of an epidemic by the lack of cleanliness in the place where experts of the Public Ministry collect evidence.
Since the tragedy occurred on February 14 , the situation of disaster is complete and the inmates spend their nights out in the open, warned the Center for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and their Families.
This situation and other trauma caused by the incident generated insomnia in most of the inmates that are suffering from the lack of clothing, underwear, shirts, towels, sandals, toiletries, toilet paper, and others.
Prisoners need to receive more water than the one they currently receive from the centre where medical attention is not available full time and is provided only by nurses in the institution, added the release.
It is necessary that the Ministry of Health completed the application of anti-tetanus vaccine to survivors, so far only 40 have been vaccinated, stressed the civil organization.
He also ordered the prison authorities to allow the entry of food and supplies provided by the families of inmates and proceed to the immediate construction of a new prison in the area. (Christian Science Monitor and Prensa Latina contributed to this report).
