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                  Thursday 8 March 2018
            Brazil yellow fever outbreak largest in decades                                                                     LATIN BRIEFS



            SAO  PAULO  (AP)  —  Brazil's  have  confirmed  846  cases  long been at risk for yellow  break  is  hitting  the  popu-  Colombian rebel
                                                                                                                                ‘Timochenko’ is
            yellow  fever  outbreak  has  of  the  mosquito-borne  dis-  fever. But the previous out-  lous  states  of  Sao  Paulo
            now  infected  more  peo-    ease.  Of  those,  260  have  break and the current one  and Minas Gerais hard and     ok after surgery
            ple than the previous one,  died. In the 2016-2017 out-   are  happening  in  areas  encroaching  on  major  cit-
            which had been the largest  break, Latin America's larg-  not  previously  considered  ies.  In  response,  Brazil  has   BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) —
            in decades.                  est  nation  saw  777  cases  at  risk  for  the  disease  and  launched  a  campaign  to   Doctors in Colombia have
            The  Health  Ministry  said  and 261 deaths.              where  vaccination  rates  vaccinate  more  than  23      successfully    performed
            Wednesday  that  officials  Large swaths of Brazil have  were  low.  The  current  out-  million people.q           heart  surgery  on  Rodrigo
                                                                                                                                Londono,  the  leader  of
            Puerto Rico:                                                                                                        the  country's  once-largest
                                                                                                                                guerrilla  group  who  is  run-
            Many still stranded in hotels 6 months after storm                                                                  ning for president. A state-
                                                                                                                                ment  from  Bogota's  Shaio
                                                                                                                                Clinic  says  Londono  is  in
            By CLAUDIA TORRENS                                                                                                  "satisfactory" condition fol-
            Associated Press                                                                                                    lowing Wednesday's coro-
            From  the  lobby  of  a  hotel                                                                                      nary  bypass  surgery.  The
            on  the  outskirts  of  Boston,                                                                                     ex-rebel  was  also  diag-
            Jesenia Flores fills out an on-                                                                                     nosed  with  chronic  lung
            line job application, hoping                                                                                        disease and a clogged ar-
            to find work that will get her                                                                                      tery. Londono is more com-
            small family back to normal                                                                                         monly  known  by  his  nom-
            for  the  first  time  since  Hur-                                                                                  de-guerre  —  Timochenko.
            ricane  Maria  flooded  their                                                                                       After  the  Revolutionary
            home in Puerto Rico.                                                                                                Armed  Forces  of  Colom-
            The  hotel  along  the  inter-                                                                                      bia  disarmed  following  a
            state has been a refuge for                                                                                         peace  agreement  with
            her and other Puerto Rican                                                                                          Colombia's    government,
            families,  but  it's  frustrating                                                                                   Londono  announced  his
            "to  be  cooped  up  here                                                                                           presidential   candidacy.
            without  knowing  what  will                                                                                        But his campaign has been
            happen to us," the 19-year-                                                                                         marred  by  protests  and
            old  mother  said  as  her                                                                                          complicated  by  his  own
            15-month-old son squirmed                                                                                           health  problems,  includ-
            and cried in her lap.                                                                                               ing a stroke last year. Ana-
            Danaliz Pujol is staying in a                                                                                       lysts expect Timochenko to
            hotel,  too,  near  Orlando,                                                                                        come  in  last  in  the  presi-
            Florida.  She  and  her  hus-  In this Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 photo, Jesenia Flores, 19, holds her son Jose, both of Aibonito, Puerto   dential  election.  But  his
                                         Rico, while watching her mother-in-law Luisa Mercedes, center left, play dominos with Ivan Lopez,
            band  are  trying  to  find  an   14, second from right, Eric Lanzo, 13, right, and Carlos Delgado, 17, bottom left, all of Bayamon,   party  will  be  awarded  10
            affordable  apartment  to    Puerto Rico, at a hotel, in Dedham, Mass.                                              congressional  seats  under
            replace  the  one  in  Puerto                                                              (AP Photo/Steven Senne)  the 2016 peace deal.q
            Rico that was damaged in
            the storm and then rented  financial  support,  they  will  the  Puerto  Rican  city  of  groups helped Maria Reyes   Guatemala plans
            to someone else after they  have nowhere to go, many  Bayamon  was  flooded  by  when  her  FEMA  hotel  as-
            fled  to  the  mainland.  She  storm victims say.         the worst storm to strike the  sistance  ended  after  two   to pull army out
            looks every day, "but there's  "I  could  end  up  on  the  island in decades. The res-  months.  She  was  able  to   from police work
            nothing," she said.          street  just  as  I'm  trying  to  taurant where she and her  move from one hotel near
            And  then  there  is  Carmen  get back on my feet," said  husband  worked  was  de-    Boston  to  another  while
            Acosta,  who  longs  to  go  Pujol, 23, who earns money  stroyed. She is now staying  caring  for  her  7-year-old   GUATEMALA  CITY  (AP)  —
            home from the hotel where  by  cleaning  hotel  rooms.  in a hotel in Dedham, Mas-     grandson.                    Guatemala's      president
            she has been living in Puer-  Her  husband  is  disabled  sachusetts,  with  aid  from  Her  former  home  in  San   said  Wednesday  he  will
            to Rico with 40 families dis-  and cannot work.           FEMA.                        Juan  public  housing  has   withdraw army troops from
            placed  by  the  storm.  She  Dozens  of  Puerto  Ricans  So  far,  FEMA  has  provided  been  deemed  habitable,   day-to-day  law  enforce-
            received  $4,000  from  the  interviewed  by  The  Associ-  $113  million  in  rental  assis-  but  she  wants  to  stay  on   ment  duties  following  ac-
            federal  government  to  re-  ated  Press  expressed  simi-  tance  to  129,000  people  the mainland to get better   cusations   that   soldiers
            pair her nearby house, but  lar  fears  as  the  deadline  who  were  in  Maria's  path  medical  care.  She  doesn't   were  involved  in  corrup-
            the  work  has  been  slow  loomed.  Many  are  poor,  across  the  island.  Puerto  know how long she will be      tion and criminal activities.
            because it includes remov-   living  on  fixed  incomes  or  Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello  able to stay in this hotel, or   President  Jimmy  Morales
            ing black mold that quickly  getting  by  in  low-wage  has asked for the deadline  where she will go next.         said that starting March 31,
            spread in the tropical heat.  jobs. They have no relatives  to be extended to May 14,  “The  only  entertainment  I   soldiers  will  be  detailed  to
            Nearly six months after the  who can help or savings to  and the government says it  have is my son,” she said.     secure  border  areas  and
            storm, almost 10,000 Puerto  fall back on, and they did  is reviewing the request.     Her  husband  managed  to    other  strategic  points.  ."I
            Ricans  scattered  across  not own their homes.           Nonprofit groups, churches  find work as a cook but she   want  to  guarantee  the
            37 states and the U.S. terri-  Some  like  Flores  struggle  and  state  and  local  gov-  has had no luck. It doesn’t   public that we are not di-
            tory  still  receive  temporary  to find work because they  ernments have also provid-  help that she doesn’t have   minishing the army, nor are
            housing assistance from the  don't  speak  English  well.  ed temporary housing help  a  car  and  her  hours  will   we going to diminish it. We
            Federal  Emergency  Man-     Others  have  children  with  and other forms of support  have  to  be  limited  be-   are going to post it strate-
            agement  Agency.  That  special medical or educa-         to the tens of thousands of  cause  she  has  to  care  for   gically when it is needed ...
            help  has  been  renewed  tional needs.                   Puerto  Ricans  who  fled  to  her baby.                  in  public  safety,  disasters,
            repeatedly,  but  it's  now  "To  start  all  over  again  is  the  mainland  in  the  after-  “I’ve applied for everything   food and public health ef-
            scheduled  to  end  for  ev-  really  hard,"  said  Ivette  math of the Sept. 20 storm.  I see, but I don’t hear any-  forts,"  Morales  said  while
            eryone  March  20.  Without  Ramirez,  whose  home  in  Several       Massachusetts  thing,” she said.q             accompanied by army of-
                                                                                                                                ficials. q
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