by the El Reportero’s news servicecs
The collection of the first 25,000 tons of wheat donated by the Russian government to Nicaragua will ensure the bread consumption for at least three months, national news media reported on Sunday.
The operations manager of the National Basic Food Company, Nelson Largaespada, also said that the second delivery of a similar amount will probably come in early 2012, El 19 Digital newspaper reportes.
Russia gave Nicaragua 100,000 tons of wheat, which will be supplied in four deliveries.
The first of them arrived on Friday to Corintio, the main Nicaraguan port, located on the coast to the Pacific Ocean.
According to Largaespada, the product can provide a high-quality bread and current Executive is making sure that does not happen again what happened during the years of neoliberal governments when flour was enough to make bread due to lack of wheat.
Correa shows authoritarian side
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador signed a controversial tax proposal into law on Nov. 24, despite the fact that it previously had been voted down in the unicameral national assembly.
Simultaneously, a prominent indigenous leader (and a former member of Correa’s cabinet), Mónica Chuji, was sentenced to a year in jail and a US$100,000 fine for libelling a fellow cabinet minister, Vincio Alvarado.
Humala: gold and water NOT gold or water
Striking a balance. That is the ultimate challenge for Peru’s President Ollanta Humala. During his first 100 days in office Humala’s standout success has arguably been convincing business and the Right that his plans for social inclusion will not disturb Peru’s vibrant economic growth.
So successful has Humala been that the challenge he now faces is reassuring the poor and the Left who brought him to power that he will fulfil his promise to use the country’s economic muscle to lift hundreds of thousands of Peruvians over the poverty line. A number of social protests are reaching boiling point, especially over mining and water, and the manner in which his ruling left-wing coalition Gana Perú responds to them will define his legacy.
Cuba’s capitalist evolution inches along
Cubans will be able to take out small peso loans from state banks under a new credit scheme due to be launched on 20 December, according to new regulations published in the 24 November official gazette.
Petro determined to deliver for Bogotá
Gustavo Petro, the mayor-elect of Colombia’s capital Bogotá, met on Nov. 24 the interim mayor, Clara López, and President Juan Manuel Santos to discuss construction plans for the city’s first underground line. Petro insisted that the line should reach the low income Suba locality.
Hondurans reported more than nine thousand agents
The National Commissioner for Human Rights (CONADEH) reported that 9, 216 complaints were received against agents in Honduras from Jan to Jul 2011, while several authoritative voices claim for an intervention of the police.
Policemen from the Preventive corp. and the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation are denounced by human right violations against various sectors of the Honduran population, revealed the most recent communiqué spread by CONADEH.
The improper exercise of public servant, abuse, neglect, illegal detentions and torture, are among the offenses for which citizens criticize the authorities of the order, the document reveals. (Latin Briefs and Prensa Latina contributed to this report).
